Rhonda Bodfield from the Star reported that Mayor Walkup will be holding bus tours of Rio Nuevo. The goal is to accentuate the positive…. The comments to the story are often the best part:
Jacques L. (The Ragin Cajun) left a comment on the tours script:
“OK, ladies and gentlemen, if you look to your left you’ll see an empty lot. Someday a hotel will stand there.
Coming up, on the right, is a vacant lot where the Santa Rita Hotel once stood. It was torn down so the Tucson skyline has a “minimalistic” look to it.
Just around the corner here we see a gutted building that was going to be condominiums for the ultra-rich. That project is on hold for now.
And, here, we are passing one, two, three, whoa, four empty storefronts — just waiting for the surge of businesses downtown!
Coming up is our crown jewel, the Fourth Avenue Underpass. It went slightly over budget, but as you can see it provides emergency shelter for Tucson’s homeless population and some day we may have a trolley that can climb those rails!
Next up, the McArthur Building, being renovated so it can sit empty with nice new offices.
If you look down there, over by the tracks and on the other side, you’ll see our world-famous Warehouse Arts District. People come from as far away as Benson and Marana to buy the artists wares. I’m not exactly sure what they produce. I’m too scared to go in that area, to be honest, but I think if I did I would be safe because we don’t charge them any rent!
Coming up is our illustrious Tucson City Court, painted a stunning shade of gray.
Ahead of us, you’ll see the domed Pima County Courthouse, that now houses the Pima County Justice Court on the second floor. Behind it is a park where virtually every weekend thousands of visitors flock downtown for festivals like Tucson Eat Yourself or the Folk Festival.
OK, up ahead you can see our unique jewel, the Tucson Police Department headquarters. Behind it, on Cushing Street, is the new Fire Department headquarters. It’s unbelievable. yes, it cost far more than estimated, but we hope the citizens of Tucson will ignore the largess and vote to pass Prop. 200 on election day!
OK, here we are back at the TCC, where our tour began. Some day, a grand new entrance will be built to this, and it may be expanded, so Tucson will be able to attract class acts like AC/DC, the Police, and Fleetwood Mac! Right now, those acts would only go to Phoenix, but we’re hoping to change that — and someday we’re going to get major league baseball back here, too!
I hope you enjoyed your tour of Rio Nada, I mean Rio Nuevo. Please watch your step as you get off the bus. Tucson can’t afford any lawsuits
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Hey Knuckleheads on the council–
Do you want an audit on Rio Nuevo ? I mean do you REALLY want an audit for Rio Nuevo?
Just tell that miserable excuse for a city manager you know your puppet — Mike Letcher to open a freaking phone book. Turn to the heading in the Yellow Pages to ACCOUNTANTS and start dialing to get bids for the audit and get to work with a local CPA.
I noticed when you wanted to trash Prop 200 you got an audit done in about 7 minutes. What’s the problem here liars?
Thats all it takes………oh yeah it’ll also take a serious dose of guts because when the audit is completed it will show the corruption, poor decision making and dithering from all of the council during the last four years under Trasoff and Uhlich’s poor leadership.
We will see the way Trasoff and Uhlich have been ripped off by the UofA.
We’ll see the way Trasoff and Uhlich have wasted so much of our taxes with out of state consultants and contractors.
We’ll see the cozy deals Trasoff and Uhlich have made with the hotel developers to the detriment of local developers.
But we’ll never see that audit until AFTER the election because Trasoff and Uhlich ( the rest of these crooks ) don’t want us to see any audit BEFORE the election because they are convinced they would lose their petty election otherwise.
Friends, we already know what that audit is going to say don’t we? We know what they’ve been up to don’t we? Are we better off now than 4 years ago? No one believes we are.
It is our obligation to VOTE THESE PEOPLE OUT OF OFFICE NOW !!
THEY DO NOT DESERVE A SECOND CHANCE.
CUT TRASOFF AND UHLICH OFF BEFORE IT GETS ANY WORSE.
Well said Mr. Ash!
Mayor and Council will sign a “Accounting Manager At Risk” audit contract that will overrun by at least 50%.
During the bus trip “and this is the vacant lot that we paid to clean up and that the city leases from our congresswoman…and does nothing with it”
Yes, Bruce, well said.
Where’s County Attorney Barbara LaWall in all this? Does she devote any resources to public corruption? How can she sit there and ignore the stench, especially from Rio Nuevo? I can’t believe this self-dealing that’s bene cited by the Tea Party and others is legal.
Let’s vote out these city council incompetents who gave us Rio Nuevo and handouts for artists, but threatened renters with taxes. Let’s send “The Cloth” a message this election day!
What no post about the new shop that opened up today or that Mr An is adding another new restaurant downtown? Or the post from the person who is impressed at the new improvements downtown?
One day the downtown haters will wake up and realize progress has left them behind and they have nothing left to cry about.
boohoo left out the part about the long-term businesses that are being thrown under the bus for Mr. An’s flash-in-the-pan project that I predict will fail. I live Downtown and am all for progress, but not at the expense of the long term tenants who actually pay rent (unlike Maynards and MOCA).