KarenD wrote on June 18, 2009 08:51 PM: A "mob museum"??? You gotta be kiddin' me. Leave it to Oscar Goodman to do such a silly thing. Let's see! The unemployment rate is high. The economy stinks! And Oscar wants to build a new city hall? Maybe he could ask the "mob" to build it!!!!

Chris wrote on June 18, 2009 08:25 PM: I have bad news for Oscar...if the market settles, rates will rise. So he if cant afford the debt now, he wont be able to afford it later. If Forest City wants to develop this deal so bad, make then provide limited recourse to the bonds which will reduce the credit risk and hence interst rate of the bond. If Forest City won't provide limited financial backstop to the project/bonds then they clearly have little faith in it... which say's a lot.

Robert wrote on June 18, 2009 07:50 PM: "The city has touted several completed projects, including the World Market Center, the Chelsea Outlet Mall, the renovation of the Fifth Street School and the soon-to-be complete Lou Ruvo Brain Institute, as well as new bars and nightclubs at the corner of Fremont Street and Las Vegas Boulevard."

Wow! So this is the new standard of success: not thriving, not profitable, not noteworthy. No success is now defined as "completed." Yes that is right. Our City Council no longer attempts to do anything right; it instead touts "Well we got it done." And in the case of Lou Ruvo, almost done is the handgrenade and horseshoe standard for success (please ignore overbudget, behind schedule and a construction catastrophe).

Look the Taj MaOscar can wait until they can put Oscar's liver rather than his name on the cornerstone.

(and to the thought police who want to subpoena--I am not calling for anybody forcably or violently doing anything to the Mayor or remove his organs against his will, just suggesting that the mark that the Mayor has left on the City of Las Vegas will be defined as much by his self-proclaimed bon vivant status as any reasoned political discourse).

Oscar wrote on June 18, 2009 07:14 PM: The New City Hall, and the Performing Arts Project, and the Stadium project , and the Mob Museum project, and the wasting bucks to revitalize downtown bumville project, should be scrapped, and dumping hundreds of thousands of bucks on more palm trees for Casino Center Street, and Northern Las Vegas Blvd, and dumping hundreds of thousands of bucks on some dopey old Casino Signs revitalization project, and hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars redoing Freedom park, and Lorenzi park, and St. Louis street park at Eastern avenue. The Council says, "we're broke folks". "Are you willing to give up your raises, or your jobs, so we can continue to function as we have?". Empty high rise buildings with no hope of anyone spending the 400k to live in bums/hookers/pimps infested Downtown Vegas. People with money aren't stupid. And Tax Payers are growing tired of wasteful city council fantasy spending, as though they had a full-time Rainy Day fund. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Please stop wasting millions of OUR TAX dollars on YOUR failing pet projects. Enough millions of dollars have already been spent on existing City hall. The stupid Plexiglas art, that had to be removed, cause it was falling off the building. The stupid fountain, that leaked into the basement, and eventually had to be removed. The additions, and Employee Parking Garage walkway. And the park across the street. Which was nothing more than Eye candy for city hall offices. That too is gone. It was infested with bums, and had to be eliminated. How about the bum infested park on Maryland Parkway, south of Charleston, that is CLOSED to the public? It is still being maintained as a park, but is permanently closed. ENOUGH ALREADY.

Sonny Corleone wrote on June 18, 2009 06:31 PM: It has nuthin' to do with the economy, bambino. Oscar couldn't give the unions the deal they wanted so the bosses started making all of 'em offers they couldn't refuse, eh? The word is nobody gets nuthin'.
And this Miller kid's got a point too, eh? It's all about Goodman's ego. They're not really short on space. They could even move into Neonflopolis if they had to.

Former LV Councilman Steve Miller wrote on June 18, 2009 06:01 PM: It's about time! This was the most wasteful and foolish idea ever proposed by a local public official. The present city hall is about to gain thousands of square feet of additional space when Metro vacates. And no one mentions the blight an empty former city hall will create in an already troubled area of downtown. The only reason for a new city hall is so Oscar Goodman can get his name on the cornerstone. He's insanely jealous every time he passes the present city hall's cornerstone and sees former Mayor Bill Briare's name instead of his.

the new mormon temple is not going to be built ???? wrote on June 18, 2009 06:00 PM:
i guess it will be delayed is all.

til the very costly clean up is done atleast.

Former LV Councilman Steve Miller wrote on June 18, 2009 05:59 PM: It's about time! This was the most wasteful and foolish idea ever proposed by a local public official. The present city hall is about to gain thousands of square feet of additional space when Metro vacates. And no one mentions the blight an empty former city hall will create in an already troubled area of downtown. The only reason for a new city hall is so Oscar Goodman can get his name on the cornerstone. He's insanely jealous every time he passes the present city hall's cornerstone and sees former Mayor Bill Briare's name instead of his.

Former LV Councilman Steve Miller wrote on June 18, 2009 05:57 PM: Good riddance! This was the most wasteful and foolish idea ever proposed by a local public official. The present city hall is very adaquate, and is about to gain thousands of square feet of additional space when Metro vacates. And no one mentions the blight an empty former city hall will create in an already troubled area of downtown. The only reason for a new city hall is so Oscar Goodman can get his name on the cornerstone. He's insanely jealous every time he passes the present city hall's cornerstone and sees former Mayor Bill Briare's name instead of his.

ET wrote on June 18, 2009 05:46 PM: Watch him he's trying to decoy us,Oscar we do not want a New City Hall,or a Mob Museum.Maybe a Howard Hughes Museum or a homeless shelter.

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