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St George Pinckney
Member since Aug 15, 2012
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Re: “Hogwash”
Tim Graves needs to go back to middle school math class. $8,500,000 divided by 205,000 is not 2.4 cents. He reversed the numerator and demoninator.
Re: “Hogwash”
While the Richmond Chamber promotes football fields, the 11/14/12 Wall Street Journal article on page A7 entitled "City's Tech Pioneers See Strenght in Numbers" outlines innovative companies locating in high broadband communities. If the joke called "RVA" really wanted innovation, money would be used to acquire Google Fiber at 125,000 kilobytes/second in place of game fields. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412…
Re: “All Aboard?”
"So you could say that the absence of public transportation in metro Richmond is a brutal artifact of Virginia's segregationist government in the middle of the 20th century. And you'd be right. The buses were stopped at the city line to keep the black population in the center city. Segregation by transportation."
This is the crux of the article but not mentioned by other commentators.
Re: “Ballpark Dreams Live (And Die) On The Boulevard”
Henrico already has an excellent ballpark: Glen Allen Stadium at RF&P Park, 3600 Mountain Rd. Additional seating could be added considerably cheaper than the $50,000,000 expected by the City for a new stadium. The highest & best use of the Boulevard property is retail.
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Re: “Hogwash”
Paul: When dealing with a finite amount of money, it is always about priorities, even if your wife's maiden name is Carnegie.
The fields will never pay for themselves. If the City wants to sell Westhampton School for the appraised value (which has not been obtained. Assessment is close to $8MM.) then considering investing cash into the fields, they will understand how bad a deal it is. Bon Secours or anyone else for that matter with the advent of universal health insurance will gladly invest c. $5MM in the east end since it is the last area of medical growth in the City. They should be paying a $5MM proffer to the City!
Chamber of Commerce is out of touch with reality. Council is simply feeding its ego. Both are stupid businessmen.