For how long some of these issues have lasted, I seriously doubt the FargoDome is going to look at fixing anything. My bet is they will run the place into the ground and then hope their surplus is big enough to replace it.
I disagree. There is no universe where the surplus in the maintenance and improvement fund is sufficient to outright replace the facility and the people in these positions are not delusional enough to think that is possible. Doesn’t mean that they have the desire or wherewithal to get the sorely needed improvements done. Just saying that’s not the reason.
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Sure, but at the same time the building has financially outperformed the expectations that it was approved on. They’ve likely been to slow to deploy their accumulated war chest over the last decade to adapt to a changing event landscape, but I think that’s got more to do with local political nonsense than outright mismanagement. That’s just my impression.
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We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie
I will say this again. Most of the surplus is from the sales tax that ran for 20 years. Growth in sales was much larger than anticipated over that 20-year period. The debt on construction of the building was paid off and the rest left in the surplus fund. Investment gains over the past decade have fueled the surplus fund also. The bulk of the surplus did not come from operating income.
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We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie
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