Venue Cancels, Gun Show a No Go.

[mike4sigs]

I don't know what gunslinger pays to lease out the field house property, but what about all of the vacant commercial properties around the fort?
The empty home depot or k-marts or hell, plop that sucker down in the grand wayne ! lol
Hopefully there is some location that could work.

I was thinking the same thing, Heck What about the Fairgrounds!
I figure it was to late to move it but I hope Gunslingers keep promoting in Fort Wayne

 

[binkerton]

I don't know what gunslinger pays to lease out the field house property, but what about all of the vacant commercial properties around the fort?
The empty home depot or k-marts or hell, plop that sucker down in the grand wayne ! lol
Hopefully there is some location that could work.

They ever find a use for the southtown mall?

 

[BobG23]

Yep but the Kmart across the street is sitting vacant.

 

[KittySlayer]

I liked the Fieldhouse location. It was new, clean, bright, good HVAC. Hope the lessors have to pay a hefty monetary price for their fake reasons for cancelling a valid contract.

The other suggestions of dead shopping centers always made everything seem dumpy to me.

 

[churchmouse]

I liked the Fieldhouse location. It was new, clean, bright, good HVAC. Hope the lessors have to pay a hefty monetary price for their fake reasons for cancelling a valid contract.

The other suggestions of dead shopping centers always made everything seem dumpy to me.

Waking up a dead building is not easy and no where near cheap. There is more to it than just unlocking the doors and flipping on the lights. A lot more.

 

[Bigtanker]

The city of South Bend (I'm shocked) did this in the 90's. The gun shows were held at the Century Center. They quit allowing gun shows to be held there. There was a lawsuit and the city lost. Cost them over $400,000.

Century Center relaxes gun show ban - schurz-southbendtribune

 

[churchmouse]

The city of South Bend (I'm shocked) did this in the 90's. The gun shows were held at the Century Center. They quit allowing gun shows to be held there. There was a lawsuit and the city lost. Cost them over $400,000.

Century Center relaxes gun show ban - schurz-southbendtribune

Cost the officials NADA. As always they play fast and loose with "OUR" money.

 

[KittySlayer]

Waking up a dead building is not easy and no where near cheap. There is more to it than just unlocking the doors and flipping on the lights. A lot more.

I completely agree and am familiar with the challenge of waking up the dead. Thus the dumpy feel of those vacant venues.

 

[mike4sigs]

They ever find a use for the southtown mall?​

yep !
They tore it down . the city put in a building for the police Academy , I believe the Fire Dept does some Training there also. and in front that is a Menards and Walmart

 

[dusty88]

Burning public money to make a political statement, maybe hoping national media will notice them. It's not like they will be paying the lawyers out of pocket, so it's a win as far as the leadership is concerned.

Are you saying Parkview is controlled by the city?

 

[Leadeye]

Whatever leadership make those decisions, city, county, authority, whatever.

 

[rhino]

I'll bet most if not all of the vendors will have standing to sue as well.

 

[spencer rifle]

After hearing Mayor Henry's speech at MFOL, I am not the least bit surprised. He would fully support this, cost to the taxpayers be damned. He's all about the virtue signaling.

 

[KittySlayer]

Are you saying Parkview is controlled by the city?

Keep in mind that Sportone Parkview Fieldhouse is not related and in a separate location from Parkview Field baseball stadium.

 

[JettaKnight]

Keep in mind that Sportone Parkview Fieldhouse is not related and in a separate location from Parkview Field baseball stadium.

THIS.

And it's not even controlled by Parkview. RCI Development should be the target of your ire. I believe they're the ones who reneged.

 

[dusty88]

THIS.

And it's not even controlled by Parkview. RCI Development should be the target of your ire. I believe they're the ones who reneged.

Thanks for clarifying. So it's not a city misusing taxpayer dollars, but rather a private company that cancelled?

 

[JettaKnight]

Thanks for clarifying. So it's not a city misusing taxpayer dollars, but rather a private company that cancelled?

That's my thought. There's likely some tax dollars that funded this place, much like the baseball stadium. The public funded part of that, but Hardball Inc. runs it, so they can post GFZ signs (which we can ignore ).

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

I'll bet most if not all of the vendors will have standing to sue as well.

Class action suit! The wheels of justice can grind for many years, at which time each member of the class will receive a check for $3.17.

 

[rhino]

Class action suit! The wheels of justice can grind for many years, at which time each member of the class will receive a check for $3.17.

downrange72 is still waiting for the big payout for the failure of his transvaginal mesh.

 

[Cameramonkey]

The confusion of public funds getting into the discussion appears to be due to Bigtankers comment about a similar action. He was saying it had been done before by .gov, not that .gov is doing it now.

South Bend did the same thing years ago and lost a suit.
A private venue has cancelled this time. (and expect them to lose as well)