When Mandalay started doing a survey about putting an AHL team at Austin Road, you had to imagine that they were backing away from BallPark Village. Unfortunately, the city has been chasing this dream too- without any real thought about how adding even more retail inventory, in yet another location, will further put pressure on Read More
Regular readers know I have an idea to build a giant sportsplex downtown on the former Parkside homes location. It’s central to the city, highly visible, a great addition to Riverscape and the Ballpark, dovetails perfectly with the new Kroc center just across the river and would be a strong statement about our belief as Read More
Instead of being a crown jewel of Dayton- for all to see, and all to use, in a central, highly visible location, building on the strengths of RiverScape, Kettering Fields, Island Park and the coming Kroc Center- SportsPlex is going to be stuffed away in Huber Heights. It won’t be the central place for kids Read More
July 20, 2007- roll the highlight reel. I spent the day with Nancy Hogshead-Makar- for me, it was like winning the lottery on life. And, I’m going to share my bounty. (I’ll post a pic when I get a chance to) For those of you who may not know the name, this is from her Read More
I was lucky enough to have County Commissioner Dan Foley buy me (and about 29 other people) lunch today- to discuss what we can do to build Dayton into a Sport Tourism Destination. Bob Steinbach from MVRPC was the facilitator (I am starting to think he’s the only one in town doing this- he’s at Read More
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