I've been campaigning for 8 months to get any of the council members to request city staff post the reports done in preparation of building the Music Center on the city's website either as news or better yet as part of a meetings agenda or minutes. I've asked them to make the original report done by the city finance and assistance city managers that convince council members the city will be able to pay off the $18 million debt using TIF funds. I asked them to make available all the report done using the $140,000 they called due diligence. I've been hoping they would post the "Validation Study" to no avail.
I finally broke down this week and requested a few of them via Freedom of Information request. I still believe this belongs on the city's website. Not sure why they didn't post it there. Here is a link to the Music Center Validation Study Report. The report is located on my site but it is the original file provided by the city in .pdf format.
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The City website even has a page specifically to tell you about the Music Center. This would be the perfect place to put these reports. Instead the only thing there this morning is a link to a video and out dated information about the RFQ for the early site package. |
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Selected passages part 2 of 2 available
Selected Passages from the validation study - part 1
In it you will find some passages from the Music Center Validation Study Report that I found interesting. It is more important that you read the Executive Summary in the real report than it is for you to read this. This will be part one of two. The real report is a total of 161 pages. I've read 82 pages. I don't know why I started at the beginning. The parts I am most interested started with the Music Venue Case Studies so I've just barely got into the interesting parts. If you are interested in reading the passages I thought were interested here is Part 1 of 2
I'm not to the place where I'm making decisions or drawing conclusions. One item in this section that has me perplexed is the expectation of demand. In the chart below you can see that in 2016 and beyond the city expects that about half the attendance will come from Local / Regional Concerts and Festivals. The idea that the Music Center and the surrounding parking lots would be a place to hold six festivals each year hit me as something that will take a lot of effort to pull off successfully. The write-up for the Local Regional Concerts tells us these are conceived to be either Dayton or Cincinnati Philharmonic events. Remember last December the City brought in the Dayton Philharmonic. That event was fantastic from an attendee point of view but not financially successful ($10,000 appearance fee, $5000 in promotion, less than $3,500 in gate).
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