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    Quote Originally Posted by Christopher Moen View Post
    I know the diagram didn't show it, but isn't there a plan to build the convention center on the West Side with the caveat of using the structure of the convention center to build a some kind of suites on the West side of the Dome at the very top?
    That idea didn't include any convention center space. Most importantly, it was only an idea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bison"FANatic" View Post
    To look at it from a different perspective, I just this AM received a email on a convention and in it they were emphasizing the things to do and the hotels within a 20 minute car ride of where the convention was being held. Heck in Fargometro you can get anywhere you want in 20 minutes from the dome area. Fargo could be like everywhere else with convention rooms or try and capture a niche and use what we have a lot of and that is space. Lots and lots of space around the dome. If you can cross sell the convention center with the dome area, that is something that most places don't have access to. Fargo is never going to be a destination convention draw like a Vegas, Orlando or Chicago so having it in a area with space can add something that is marketable. If they are coming for the hotel or the restaurants they already are not coming to Fargo.


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    Quote Originally Posted by roadwarrior View Post
    That idea didn't include any convention center space. Most importantly, it was only an idea.
    I could make some sketches on napkins if it would help.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roadwarrior View Post
    That idea didn't include any convention center space. Most importantly, it was only an idea.
    Quote Originally Posted by EC8CH View Post
    I could make some sketches on napkins if it would help.
    Here's an idea I was kicking around:


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    The best idea but probably the least feasible would be connecting the convention center to the mall...this would revitalize the mall and that area behind the mall which looks dumpy. Doesn't help that the Savors building and the old Hooters spot looks like two buildings that have been condemned for years. Otherwise put the damn thing downtown.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Almeida View Post
    The best idea but probably the least feasible would be connecting the convention center to the mall...this would revitalize the mall and that area behind the mall which looks dumpy. Doesn't help that the Savors building and the old Hooters spot looks like two buildings that have been condemned for years. Otherwise put the damn thing downtown.
    That area is a disgrace, need to bulldoze the old Menards and hooters, make a damn park if nothing else, highly visible from the Interstate and it's embarrassing
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Almeida View Post
    The best idea but probably the least feasible would be connecting the convention center to the mall...this would revitalize the mall and that area behind the mall which looks dumpy. Doesn't help that the Savors building and the old Hooters spot looks like two buildings that have been condemned for years. Otherwise put the damn thing downtown.
    Why would anyone care about the mall. Their managers are the ones who ran it down and it's clear they give less than 2 shots about community. You want the mall to thrive....add competition.

    The convention center needs to go at the done where 1) it makes sense. 2) who earned the $$$to pay for it.

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    Malls are dying everywhere. It's been going on for quite some time now and it's accelerating.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bisonaudit View Post
    Malls are dying everywhere. It's been going on for quite some time now and in accelerating.
    How many of them have a backed up sewer issue, leaky roofs, exuberant rent $12- $15k a month and are so uppity that taco John's is too low class to be a tenet?

    Fact is this mall is extremely hard to work withe because they have all the leverage. To a t, all of the stores in it are secretly hoping another anchor store goob so their leases are broke.

    Not too mention the disregard for the community and the safety of employees. Sherrif says no travel mall sends it's direct employees home, but fines the stores if they close or send their employees home.

    That place is so mismanaged it's pathetic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bisonaudit View Post
    Malls are dying everywhere. It's been going on for quite some time now and in accelerating.
    Yep. It's gotten so bad in the last 3 months that the outlet mall they were planning on 52nd Ave that looked like a sure thing was just put on hold. Nobody wants to take a risk.

    If they can't figure out a way to do it on the south end of the dome, I like the idea of going downtown. But I don't want to see them squeeze it into the already solid areas that are too crammed and lack parking . I would rather see them put it west of downtown in some of those crappy areas. This would totally expand downtown and revitalize that area that is borderline industrial and ugly as heck yet is close to downtown
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