Downtown ice arena

No money for your rink, Mr. Gunlock

From, let’s sneak a tax hike through the backdoor, to no, we can’t afford your dream Mr. Gunlock (of RG Properties) County Administrator Deb Feldman must have felt the heat after one public discussion on where to build an arena. Montgomery County should not pursue a hockey arena and events center at the proposed Austin Read More

Downtown Dayton Arena petition started

Well, as long as we’re not actually discussing if we need an ice arena or not, and we’re just talking about where to build one hypothetically, Bill Pote at Dayton Most Metro has put up a petition: Unlike the proposed Austin Landing arena, the downtown arena would take full advantage of existing infrastructure, adjacent parking Read More

Austin Road/Development/The County View

It seems the Montgomery County Development chief, Joe Tuss, and his boss, County Administrator Debbie Feldman, have a crush on Kevin Costner. They watch the movie “Field of Dreams” over and over and think if they keep saying “Build it and they will come,” they will have success. The meeting was well attended, with a Read More

Double standards in how developers are treated

When Randy Gunlock pulled the trigger on his dream of building an ice arena at Austin Road, the Montgomery County Commissioners scrambled to try to boost the hotel tax to the max, without any public discussion. He didn’t even have to have a team, show drawings, provide proformas- nothing. Now that Dayton Bombers owner, Costa Read More

It’s time to draft Mike Ervin for Mayor of Dayton.

Dr. Ervin thinks he can “get more done behind the scenes” than as the Mayor of Dayton. He’s been working closely with City Manager Rashad Young to make his arts district fly. Now he leaks the confidential plans for the Downtown ice arena, as he’s also pushing the new downtown trolly- plus the “Greater Downtown” Read More

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