Statement Of The Day

Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 7/2/08 @ 2:21 am - Filed Under Local Politics

From the JG:

Mayor Tom Henry called the ballpark the greatest thing to happen to downtown in his lifetime.

Let’s hope it doesn’t stay that way - a large number of jobs coming downtown would ultimately be nice…

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6 Responses to “Statement Of The Day”

  1. Steve Gordon on July 2nd, 2008 7:14 am

    Those new jobs downtown will be the 9 guys on the field. Isn’t that how they got the tax abatements, by promising new jobs? Maybe there will be an additional cheerleader or vendor hawking his product in the stands.

  2. John Colgate on July 2nd, 2008 9:18 am

    Steve:
    You missed some jobs. The criminals that will be on the streets, the 30-50 extra police officers necessary to chase them and untangle the traffic jams that occur when the Theater and the ball game are over at the same time. Ah, progress!

  3. john b. kalb on July 2nd, 2008 9:59 pm

    Jeff - Unless my memory is mistaking, mayor Henry was alive in Fort Wayne when the following things happened:
    1) The City-County Building(which contains his plush office, among other things) was built. If he thinks that an unnecessary new downtown baseball stadium is a greater happening, then maybe he isn’t the person for his present elected job!
    2) The elevation of the Nickel Plate RR tracks !
    3) The building of what we now call Headwaters Park !
    4) The building of the new downtown Public Library! A place that ALL can enjoy, not just a few on a limited number of days per year!

    Mayor Tom: Keep up the hype - you might even get someone to drop the high dollars to buy the condo that you and your wife aren’t going to buy!

  4. Bob G. on July 3rd, 2008 10:08 am

    It always depends on how one defines “great”, doesn’t it, and in what context it’s applied.

    ;)

    B.G.

  5. Sam T on July 3rd, 2008 12:21 pm

    John,

    Wow you really got the mayor on that one.

    How did he possibly let the elevation of the Nickel Plate slip his mind. Surely he should have qualifed his statement by saying this is the greatest thing to happen downtown since the elevation of the nickel plate.

    My god John. I cant wait to see what you and Councilman Smith are going to spend your time complaining about when Harrison Square succeeds. See you at the ballpark.

  6. Phil Marx on July 4th, 2008 12:29 am

    Even better than when he got a pay raise?

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