Look out Laredo, you may be financing a new convention center downtown with the 1/4 cent sales tax you approved for building the Laredo Energy Arena and new baseball stadium.
You heard it hear first. The city council is looking at options under the ordinance allowing the sales tax that would give them the authority to fund a new convention center.
I was wondering why ol' Mike Garza was questioning the Laredo Convention and Visitors Bureau chief about convention centers at the last city council meeting. Mike wanted to know how many conventions Laredo had lost due to not having an convention center.
Groundwork is being laid. I am not sure if voters even get to vote on this.
More to come.
I thought this was an idea that had a few years ago but then scrapped?? Hadn't they even bought downtown property for it a few years ago?
ReplyDeleteAt one time they proposed it for I-35 and the Milo interchange. They talked about downtown, not only for convention center, but also as the site for the arena. Thank goodness they built the arena out off loop 20.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is the downtown folks still are mad about the arena and the city may be giving them a convention center as payback.
The El Portal fiasco was originally the payback for not building the arena downtown, but we all know what that $20 million dollar deal looks like.
Like a hot steamy, coily turd? :D
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