Ah, the Oakley-Lindsay Center
My favorite Quincy white elephant. Now it needs $30,000 extra in hotel/motel taxes from the Convention and Visitors' Bureau budget to help pay for maintenance and operations. (Not that the CVB has shown much vitality lately, either.)
The two agencies are unhealthily entangled to begin with. The CVB has to feed off whatever scraps the OLC board gives it, and the OLC board gets to keep at least 3/4 of the hotel/motel tax. Is it possible, just possible, that the hotel/motel tax would be better spent in other ways than paying for the upkeep on an oversized convention center? $676K would pay for a lot of national media advertising, discount coupons, promotional materials, and the like.
That big white barn would make excellent storage space for city equipment, and all the offices housed there could very easily find space in some of the many empty downtown buildings. The little theatre could just go on pretending that it's not attached to the rest of that monster. Or if the city already has plenty of equipment storage....I see a private entrepreneur renting it out or buying it, and the "monster garage sale" becoming a permanent weekend attraction. Hey, nothing says civic pride like a giant indoor flea market!
The two agencies are unhealthily entangled to begin with. The CVB has to feed off whatever scraps the OLC board gives it, and the OLC board gets to keep at least 3/4 of the hotel/motel tax. Is it possible, just possible, that the hotel/motel tax would be better spent in other ways than paying for the upkeep on an oversized convention center? $676K would pay for a lot of national media advertising, discount coupons, promotional materials, and the like.
That big white barn would make excellent storage space for city equipment, and all the offices housed there could very easily find space in some of the many empty downtown buildings. The little theatre could just go on pretending that it's not attached to the rest of that monster. Or if the city already has plenty of equipment storage....I see a private entrepreneur renting it out or buying it, and the "monster garage sale" becoming a permanent weekend attraction. Hey, nothing says civic pride like a giant indoor flea market!
posted by Allthenewsthatfits at 6:22 AM
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Let's see...the OLC's biggest events are garage sales (Whig) and a home show (WGEM).
Good thing it has the right family names on it otherwise it would be nothing more than an ultimate fighting arena.
At least we're not buying the director's pants anymore.
And the director doesn't have an unlimited, unchecked credit card used at The Abbey, Harrison Pub, Krieger's, etc.
I don't normally comment on anonymous posts, but I have to say....if you're still carrying on about a former exec. director, you need to let go of the past, because that past has disappeared in the rear view mirror a long time ago.
6:49 AM
I don't normally comment on anonymous posts either, but I'll make an exception for yours. Years of mismanagement and building neglect do ave an impact on the present.
That being said, it's a white elephant. Maybe they should move it out to the airport where the other elephants live.
And don't think for a moment that the former executive director's brother-in-law isn't helping pull the strings in this little QCVB/OLC split.
They could really get a lot more stuff going on there. Most civic centers have concerts (I typed that with an sarcastic tone) ...with real national acts ...but until the acoustics are fixed at the OLC, that won't happen. We could also get a hockey team. I know that's far fetched but it's something - other than nothing.
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