When this came up as an emergency resolution by the Dayton City Commission more than 100 days ago, this deal stank. To recap, UPS has a lease on the former Emery Air Freight Hub at Dayton International Airport through 2019. UPS had an obligation to pay the city a lot of money, maintain the building Read More
There are the Illuminati, the Tri-Lateral Commission and the Montgomery County Fair Board as three of the most misunderstood secret societies on the planet. And, then, there is the government intervention by the Monarchy of Montgomery County and their benefactors in the transfer of the Fairgrounds to the patron saints of politics in the county. Read More
It’s time to stop playing around with the fairgrounds relocation. The first clue should have been when Hamvention moved to Greene County. The second should have been when a local pro-sports franchise decided to sit out a season. Dayton built a really nice stadium for the Dragons and gave it away for 20 years. The Read More
Possibly in response to the article I posted yesterday, IRG makes an announcement of a tenant. The Emery/UPS facility at Dayton International Airport is over a million square feet. In their first big “success” we have IRG renting 15% of the space to a local firm, not involved in aviation, and getting tax breaks to Read More
Over the weekend, IRG stripped out the five diesel back-up generators at the former UPS/Emery Air Freight building at Dayton International Airport. Each of these kilowatt generators new were about $1 million. None had much use on them. On the used market, IRG probably cleared close to $3 million- right to their pockets. They also Read More
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