Loading ...Given the financial stress the state is putting on its localities, this may not be the perfect timing for a new proposal for a civic center in Lynchburg. The decades-old subject came up last week when Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. proposed that a coalition of regional government officials coordinate a study of the possibility of a sports, entertainment and convention center for the region. The study would be based on the premise that LU would rent it regularly for university events and that LU would help pay for the study.
Any facility that grew out of such marketing and feasibility studies would be owned by a regional government authority and not by the university. A marketing study could cost as much as $60,000 and later studies could cost as much as $210,000 under figures presented to directors of Region 2000’s Local Government Council.
Region 2000’s Local Government Council will get back together next month for further discussion of the civic center proposal.
Read the full article, published January 27, 2010: http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/opinion/editorials/article/the_risks_and_possibilities_of_a_civic_center/23496.
