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Article: Civic Center use down: ; City pays $1 million each year to keep the center running
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- November 14, 2001
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
Despite $9 million worth of recent renovations, Charleston's
Civic Center is still not being used as much as it should be, city
officials said.
The city, the Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau and the
Civic Center management are all pushing to get help for the Civic
Center in an attempt to fill seats and increase revenue.
The city pays a $1 million subsidy each year to keep the facility
afloat, and last month the city had to shell out another $35,000 to
help make up revenue lost since Sept. 11.
The Civic Center is an important economic driver in the city,
bringing in more than $8 million of revenue in the last five years.
But from year to year, the revenues are not ...