Ran into a fellow who is part of a new arena complex in Crookston Minnesota . Have a look at the project at Protecting The Legacy

It’s amazing how they were able to present multiple options to the people, including full business plans and operating expenses for each option. They even had the audacity to show the revenue and expense statement for the current facility they have.

The Advisory committee has guiding principles and provides their meeting minutes to the public.

Most interesting is that their will be no impact on local property taxes for construction costs and they only have to fund raise 1 million dollars locally.

3 Arenas for 14.6 Million dollars.

Too bad Portage la Prairie couldn’t have used the same project manager, maybe we could get a much better deal?

And if the taxpayers were presented with the full information up front there would be a lot less surprises.