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Article: There is no demonstrated need to expand convention center.(Los Angeles Convention Center)(Viewpoint essay)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 7, 2007
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THE Los Angeles Convention Center has been a financial drain on the city's precious general fund and has publicly been described as a "money losing taxpayer boondoggle." A massive infusion of public funds to expand this facility is wasteful and counterproductive.
Yet, inexplicably, the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center Authority Commission, on which I sit as a current member and former president, has spent nearly $1 million for numerous studies to revise the Convention Center's Master Plan which includes an expansion of its facilities and replacing its West Hall, cost estimates commence at $750 million and rise to a staggering $1 billion.
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