  Detroitoronto Member Username: Detroitoronto Post Number: 5 Registered: 12-2005 |
Dear Friends: MEDIA CITY continues to have serious trouble vis-a-vis a possible deadlock and imminent closure of our main screening venue, the Capitol Theatre and Arts Centre. Here is the latest article published in the Windsor Star outlining part of the issue: http://www.canada.com/windsors tar/news/story.html?id=ab7f72b 4-0258-4aea-b230-dae31403e612& k=11346 We are asking that individuals send letters of support for MEDIA CITY in an effort to persuade the city that the building is still a viable cultural asset, and that the festival is an important international forum. As most of you are already aware the Capitol Theatre is the only suitable screening venue in the city, without which MEDIA CITY would be forced to reassess whether it is possible to continue operating here in the future. If you could please send your letters of support to us at MEDIA CITY so that we can forward them to the appropriate parties, it would be much appreciated. For those of you who have already sent letters, thank you very much, we'll keep you posted about the outcome of this matter and MEDIA CITY's future in Windsor. Best regards, Media City, Windsor <mediacity@artcite.ca> http://www.houseoftoast.ca/med iacity | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4942 Registered: 11-2003 |
Wow, this is hard to believe as it is such a fine restored venue. They should immediately engage Gordon Lightfoot to do a benefit at $100 CDN a seat, fill it up, and be on financial footing. jjaba is shocked nobody has thought to figure out how to endowe a performing arts centre in Windsor. Canada has huge commitments to arts and culture. What the hell happened here, eh. jjaba. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 1081 Registered: 12-2005 |
Jjaba: how a-boot an all star show with Gordon, Anne Murray, William Shattner doing spoken word songs. That would bring in some doooolars. I'll send a letter of support. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9263 Registered: 10-2003 |
This is nothing new. This city does not support the arts very well. In fact, this city doesn't support anything unless it is done at a big box store. I'm sure in due time they will level it for a surface lot like they were going to do in the early '90s. edited for typo. (Message edited by GOAT on March 07, 2007) | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4944 Registered: 11-2003 |
Goat, this is awful. Do something. Add David Steinberg and Paul Shaeffer's band to the list. Fly in Celene Dion from Las Vegas. jjaba will read some Robt. Service poetry and a Richler story about Montreal's Jewish shtetl. Goat and Andrew, do something for crissakes, eh. jjaba. Now, you've got a show. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6186 Registered: 10-2003 |
We might have a great show, but no one will buy tickets or show up... Generally Windsorites like to get their "arts and culture" from Wal-Mart. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4947 Registered: 11-2003 |
Right AIW, pave paradise, put up a parking lot. (For nobody who shops or works Downtown Windsor anymore.) Ok, jjaba gets it. Windsor can become that great "connectivity" in the Megalopolis. Bridges overhead, RR tressels, and tunnels trans-river. Make Windsor into a fucking East St. Louis, eh. Make Windsor a fucking Meadowlands. This is disgusting. jjaba never saw a Canadian Wal-Mart. Other than China, jjaba thought only we had them. jjaba now rests knowing you can back up your old pick-up and load a new discount tv or stay in the RV overnight in Windsor now. So why do the socialist hoards still run to Oakland Mall when you got home grown Wal-Mart? jjaba, LOL. | ||
Cjdb16 Member Username: Cjdb16 Post Number: 162 Registered: 11-2003 |
Breathe Art Theatre Project has been performing at the Capitol for three years (in the smaller venue at the Capitol) and our audiences have grown steadily in that time, we used to get about 65 people a weekend and now we draw about 175 a weekend. That is huge growth in a short time. The Detroit audiences have not been nearly as responsive (we perform on both sides of the border). I have found Windsor residents will show up if you give them a great show...hopefully they will have someplace to show up to. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 116 Registered: 12-2003 |
Dear friends: This is sent in the belief that the greater number of voices being heard supporting an issue allows for a better decision about the outcome. As you are aware, the Capitol Theatre is being discussed in terms of bankruptcy. Some people think this might be just as well, and as it will allow for new management to restart the vision of the theatre on better terms at some later date. The sad situation with bankruptcy is that there will be a selling off of expensive equipment, the kind of lighting and sound equipment that make the Capitol a decent venue for the performing arts, to appease creditors. There has been an investment by the Canadian people from all levels of organization to the tune of $13ˆ16 million dollars in the restoration of the Capitol in the last few years. To see the theatre become dark, and with little likelihood of returning without replacing this type of expensive equipment, is a tragedy to the citizenry of greater Windsor as reopening the theatre will not happen in the near future. I encourage all of you to take the time to register an opinion about keeping the Capitol Theatre going, without a bankruptcy, by insisting that City Hall fund in good faith from the community an amount of money which will forgo this. We certainly have given wonderful funding for subsidizing young people to belong to sporting teams. There are also countless numbers of people involved from all age groups who have benefited from theatrical productions through the years at the Capitol. Encourage City Hall to not let the Capitol go into receivership, by emailing the mayor at the e-address below, or faxing city hall at the number shown. They need to know your opinion right now. Fax. (519) 255-7796 mayoro@city.windsor.on.ca | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9267 Registered: 10-2003 |
I just sent the mayor a scathing Email as to why this city continues to increase property taxes yet has done very little to improve the quality of life of its citizens. Once again we want something to better the community but the city just wants more white elephants and grand schemes (arena and "peace beacon"). With all of the layoffs and the ones to follow you would think this adminstration might want to find ways for the city to offer something to the residents other than boarded up buildings and vacant homes. Then again I can always watch the pavement in front of my house continue to fall apart. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 3772 Registered: 08-2004 |
Windsor's 2,000 seat Capitol Theatre opened on December 31, 1920. It was designed by Thomas Lamb (one of the "Big 4" movie palace architects of the 1920's), and is the only Thomas Lamb theatre in the Detroit/Windsor area. It was originally built for the Loew's Film Corp. (Loew's/MGM). It was built in a tame classic style popular in the early 1920's. Thomas Lamb was most famous for the 1929 San Francisco Fox, arguably the most palatial movie palace of all time. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 117 Registered: 12-2003 |
Rally at The Capitol As fate would have it, Mayor Eddie "Mr. Downtown Urban Village" Francis is hosting a dialogue on "Windsor's Future in a Changing World" at the Capitol Theatre tomorrow evening, one day before the Capitol is set to go bankrupt. Not missing the irony in this situation, we are organizing a rally to save the Capitol tomorrow evening, 6 pm in front of the theatre. Our friends in the media will be there- any support much appreciated. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 118 Registered: 12-2003 |
Mayor Cancels Event at The Capitol tomorrow Draw your own conclusions.... | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4948 Registered: 11-2003 |
And Gistok knows what happened to the San Francisco Fox. The wonderful pipe organ is probably somewhere in rural Kansas now. Keep up the struggle to save old theaters, eh. In USA, these restored movie palaces, now performing arts centers, only are able to operate with huge endowments, to underwrite expenses. Mostly, the ticket gate doesn't cover everything. You would think that with the public investment, somebody would organize an endowment. Time to get the wine and cheese crowd involved, and fast! jjaba. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 119 Registered: 12-2003 |
Just In... "Looking Forward" Seminar Postponed Due to uncertainties surrounding the operation of the Capitol Theatre, ticket sales have been affected. Looking Forward: Windsor’s Future in a Changing World, which was scheduled to take place at the Capitol Theatre on Thursday March 8 with speakers Diane Francis and Glen Murray, has been postponed. The event will take place at a future date convenient to the presenters later this spring. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 1084 Registered: 12-2005 |
Jjaba, the SF Fox Wurlitzer is now installed and played daily in Disney's El Capitan theatre in Hollywood. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6187 Registered: 10-2003 |
Walkerpub, to much huh? You missed this part at the end of the e-mail: quote: I'll do that tomorrow, I wouldn't hold my breath on it being rescheduled. Maybe the mayor can host it at his vibrant east end arena. Eddie the jackass is a joke. Glad I didn't vote for him. Bring back Mike Hurst! (only partially kidding) Is the rally still on anyway? | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6188 Registered: 10-2003 |
Gistok, Here's a few photos if you've never been there.         The theatre opened Dec 20, 1920, and cost $600,000 to build. Lowe's sold it and it became the Capitol in 1922, it closed as a movie theatre in 1989, and was slated for demolition in the early 1990's. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4951 Registered: 11-2003 |
Wonderful interiors, Andrew. The facade is set in a wonderful office block with sudden excitement when you enter the space. AIW can put away the tux for now, eh. No event planned. If AIW and Goat would each pony up $5,000 CDN, jjaba bets the event would go on. Go for it, eh. (jjaba chips in $5 USD, same thing.) jjaba, American. | ||
Hunchentoot Member Username: Hunchentoot Post Number: 36 Registered: 03-2005 |
Back in 2000 I was part of an improv comedy troupe called Mr. Rogers' Sweatshop and we did a rare scripted show here. A lot of great memories from that experience. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 3773 Registered: 08-2004 |
Yes, thanks for the pics AIW!! Love that fancy grillwork with the female figure! That vertical marquee above 2nd floor has to be the most "understated" vertical marquee of all time!  | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 120 Registered: 12-2003 |
AIW- So few built heritage buildings left outside Walkerville on the south side that we must do what e can to save this gem. The rally is going ahead tomorrow- great interest by the media on this- radio interview at 7:20 am on CBC- TV coverage is in the bag on the news tomorrow night... However I wouldn't be surprised if Eddie makes an announcement at the 11th hour- he hates bad publicity and even he is going to have a hard time spinning this one... So to one and all- c'mon down! | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 3775 Registered: 08-2004 |
I take it that the Capitol Theatre is Windsor's only surviving movie palace? I base that on the fact that The Theatre Historical Society's 1995 "Detroit Enclave" (annual theatre tour of a particular city) visited only the Capitol in Windsor (as well as theatres in metro Detroit, Ann Arbor, Jackson, Flint and Saginaw). | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 121 Registered: 12-2003 |
The Walkerville Theatre lives on; this story is somewhat dated, but gives the background on this Howard Crane beauty: http://www.walkervilletimes.co m/tivoli.htm | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 1086 Registered: 12-2005 |
without being indelicate, was the operation of the Capitol "right side up" re: salaried positions vs. support base (gifts), volunteer mix, basic book keeping practices, number of lit nights, income from self-promotions and concession/merchandising? I realize this is an open-ended invitation for disgruntled former employees and the under-informed, but does anyone out there have the real story on the operation? | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 122 Registered: 12-2003 |
IMHO: The Capitol was poorly run, mismanaged and top staff were "at the trough." Most major shows lost money, community arts group could not afford to rent the facility, and budget were developed based on bingo revenue and grant revenues which has since dried up. You don't go through $13 million without a few people greasing their jeans. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4957 Registered: 11-2003 |
And witha little bit of bloomin' luck... jjaba. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 123 Registered: 12-2003 |
It's All About Priorities..... City needs $260,000 PR office, study says Councillors, mayor at odds over whether investment necessary Anne Jarvis, Windsor Star Published: Thursday, March 08, 2007 A proposal to spend up to a quarter of a million dollars to create a city hall communication office with seven staff has been called "embarrassing" and "bureaucratic bafflegab," something that will improve the quality of life in Windsor or simply a consolidation. http://www.canada.com/windsors tar/story.html?id=6d7aaa96-9c9 f-41bb-a083-aaffd31315d2&k=992 18 | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9271 Registered: 10-2003 |
When is the rally? I also liked what was printed inthe Windsor Star yesterday: "City spends $35,000 on take out" Hell, even T.O. only spent $20,000 on sandwichs and salads and they are 20 times larger. Yet Windsor had to buy ribs, chicken and everything else under the sun. I sit aon a coupleof boards and committees and we don't buy food with our budgets. We pay for it ourselves! It is sad that they don't have $65,000 to help this theatre out. Typical BS with this city's gov't. I bet that my property taxes go up this year...and for what? What is the PR office going to sell? A vacant downtown that the council helped create? A city that thrives on union militancy? A city that caters to big box stores? Give me a break! We can add this to the Taj Mahal (411 building downtown), the Cleary fiasco, the Canderal scam, the arena pocket stuffing and the "peace beacon" boondoggle. I can save the city money on the last one. Give me $100,000 and I will dig the foundation out by hand (it was stated tha tit will cost the city another $200-300,000 to remove an old foundation. Laughable at best). | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9272 Registered: 10-2003 |
I like this gem. From the article... "According to the 26-page report, the office would manage Windsor's image as a community-minded city with a "highly effective municipal government," an "attractive city (in which) to invest and conduct business" and an "active, safe and fun place to live and visit." Civic minded as to not give a $65,000 loan to a theatre. Attractive city if you like mid '70s architecture. Fun if you are 19 years old and like titty bars. Safe if you barricade yourself in your home as I have yet to see any police in this city patrol on foot in any neighbourhood. Then there is this tidbit from Lewenza jr. (the son of the head of the militancy in this city...go figure.) "The office would help residents understand and maximize their use of city services, said councillor and committee member Ken Lewenza Jr., who formerly published his own city newspaper." I have said it before. If residents won't look to find information about their city it doesn't matter what PR you sned out, they won't hear or see it. Besides, we spent enough money on 311 and it works very well. They have answered my questions every time I have used it. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 124 Registered: 12-2003 |
Goat Man: The rally is at 6pm at The Capitol. Truly one could mad following the antics of our city government! | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9273 Registered: 10-2003 |
See you there about 6:00pm. I have and that it why I am as crazy as a loon. : ) Gotta run! | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6189 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Or truly consider moving away from this small minded pissant city. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 125 Registered: 12-2003 |
I love the city- but not the politics... "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." Mark Twain | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6190 Registered: 10-2003 |
Walkerpub, agreed! Imagine, sandwiches taking priority over the arts. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4959 Registered: 11-2003 |
Two questions from jjaba. What the fuck is "bureaucratic bafflegab"? I don't think we got that down in Detorit. Why did they ever name it "The Capitol Theatre?" That's in Washington, DC, the onliest one jjaba knows of. jjaba, Westside Bar Mitzvah Bukkor. | ||
C_p Member Username: C_p Post Number: 14 Registered: 11-2006 |
Walkerpub, Mayor cancels , but he sure as hell won't cancel his appearance promoting "Smackdown" which ain't even taking place in the city of Windsor. It's all politics, and our big box store culturalists. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4961 Registered: 11-2003 |
It would be instructive to jjaba to learn the names of these big boxes in Windsor and what they sell. Do you have?: Wal-Mart Lowe's Home Depot Office Max Office Depot Staples Target etc. Merci. jjaba. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 126 Registered: 12-2003 |
Jjaba: Windsor has gone the way of the big box- we have all the usual suspects, excepting Target. Our special flavour big box is Canadian Tire. The area around Walker Road at Provincial, and the Manning Road area near E.C. Row could be anywhere in North America. We have Wal-Mart Costco Home Depot Staples/ Office Depot Michael's Canadian Tire Best Buy Future Shop Canada's SuperStore etc... | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 127 Registered: 12-2003 |
Mayor Eddie To Take on Vince McMahon at Wrestlemania 23!  | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4964 Registered: 11-2003 |
Costo has big boxes of grapefruit right now. Yum. Just can't get those at the snackbar at The Capitol. jjaba, lol. | ||
Wfw Member Username: Wfw Post Number: 184 Registered: 03-2004 |
Goat, you seem to be implying that Windsor is unsafe with this statement: "...Safe if you barricade yourself in your home as I have yet to see any police in this city patrol on foot in any neighbourhood". While it's true that I never saw any officers on foot patrol outside downtown, I find your statement misleading. I'm not arguing that Windsor has been mismanaged almost to death, but on the whole I'd say it's a very safe city. I lived there for 27 years, from birth until 2004, and I can count my experiences with crime on one hand - and even that's a stretch. I suppose it all depends on what neighbourhood you're referring to, but growing up in the area around the U of W was damn near idyllic at times. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9275 Registered: 10-2003 |
Not anymore Wfw. Meth has transformed this city into a siege mentality. People being robbed out ont he street, kids getting shot (in the back I might add. How cowardly!) for giving a glancing look, break-ins at an alarming rate for both cars and houses and attempted murders/murders starting to come alive. It surely isn't what it used to be. The bad neighbourhoods became worse and the o.k. neighbourhoods became bad. Even poor old south Windsor has more break-ins than any other part of the city! In fact, some neighbourhoods in south Windsor have even hired their own security to patrol the streets. What does that tell you about an ineffectual police (with one of the highest wage scales in the country)force with a bloated budget? | ||
Wfw Member Username: Wfw Post Number: 185 Registered: 03-2004 |
Interesting. I know the B&E rate for both cars and houses is high, but none of my dozens of friends and family in Windsor have described anything like what you have. A tad alarmist perhaps? Just out of curiosity, what part of the city do you live in? | ||
Detroitoronto Member Username: Detroitoronto Post Number: 6 Registered: 12-2005 |
anyone attend the rally? any photos? thanks, scott | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 128 Registered: 12-2003 |
Rally was a great success- lead story on all media locally- our goal as to embarrass the city government and we believe we achieved that. Especially interesting was long-time DetroitYes poster Goat giving 'em hell on A Channel- you go man! Expect an announcement Friday concerning funding- it appears The Capitol will be saved- for now... A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead     | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3721 Registered: 10-2003 |
Great Pictures Walkerpub and AIW upthread! Congrats on the turn out and sorry I couldn't make it. Keep'em coming and keep the heat on! | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4965 Registered: 11-2003 |
Keep the Lights on. Excellent citizens' action. Goat, we're proud as punch for you. Give 'em hell, eh. jjaba. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9276 Registered: 10-2003 |
Wfw, I lived in Walkerville until a year ago. I now live in what is called Olde Towne (westside of downtown, or otherwise known as the potential "urban village"). It was a great turn out even though it was put together at the last minute. People really do care and it showed. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 129 Registered: 12-2003 |
From A Channel: Rally To Save the Capitol Without last minute intervention, the curtain will fall for the final time Friday night at Windsor's Capitol Theatre. Mayor Eddie Francis isn't budging from council's decision not to provide bridge financing unless the city is first creditor to be repaid. A group of "friends of the capitol" assembled around the theatre entrance over the supper hour Thursday evening. There was a lot of anger among the crowd, directed squarely at the mayor and city council. City council cancelled an event the city was supposed to host at the Capitol about urban planning. The city says because of poor ticket sales, the theatre says because councillors and the mayor want to duck criticism. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 130 Registered: 12-2003 |
Capitol Rally Dozens turn out to show support for financially-ailing historic theatre Protesters rally in support of the Capitol Theatre Thursday evening. By Dalsen Chen and Ted Shaw, Windsor Star Published: Thursday, March 08, 2007 Some carried placards, some sported multi-coloured hair, but every Capitol Theatre supporter who rallied in front of the debt-ridden venue on Thursday night raised their voices for its survival. “When I heard they might close it down, I was outraged,” said 12-year-old aspiring actress Rosalie Edwards, one of about 50 people who gathered on the sidewalk of downtown University Ave. West around 6 p.m. http://www.canada.com/windsors tar/story.html?id=49f7279b-823 7-4193-b3a7-5216f35a05f3&k=703 04 | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9278 Registered: 10-2003 |
Why were there ticket sales to this anyway? It seems anytime the adminstration wants to hold an event it assembles in a community area or building. Now they want people to pay for tickets to see what is up their sleeve. How appropriate! Urban planning in this city is akin to allowing a pedophile to take school pictures of children. It will always come out a lot worse than proposed. Urban planning; Yeah, they won't even help the only theatre (historic at that) in the downtown district. This theatre has multiple tenants on the upper floors as well. SO what happens to these businesses downtown? Nice urban planning. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 131 Registered: 12-2003 |
The Mayor really has shown his concers for downtown businesses with this fiasco- word was Enwin Utilities was ready to turn off power and water Monday morning- now that is one caring city agency. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 132 Registered: 12-2003 |
Hey Goat- If this keeps up I might catch up to your number of posts here (or not)... | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6192 Registered: 10-2003 |
Fuck enwin. They are the biggest city run scam ever. Here's some photos from you from the rally: http://internationalmetropolis .com/?p=330 | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 133 Registered: 12-2003 |
Andrew: Great photos from the rally- ENWIN- what a bunch of scumbags- they could've been seen as heroes to keep the lights on- but no- they have to prove what asshats they are... | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9279 Registered: 10-2003 |
Enwin and Windsor's city gov't go hand in hand. Corrution and stupidity at their finest! Walkerpub, I haven't posted this much for at least 4 months. This city has finally put me over the edge and I want blood! edited for typo. (Message edited by GOAT on March 09, 2007) | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 135 Registered: 12-2003 |
The deadline is upon us- we hear the lawyers are hassling over details but the lights will stay on for the time being- but nothing is yet guaranteed. Here is a coll site where archives of news items and videos are being culled: http://artwindsor.org/ | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4970 Registered: 11-2003 |
Thanks for the photos Andrew. Evidently, Windsor doesn't care if pickets stand in one place, blocks access. Can't do that in USA. Must keep moving. Might be time for pickets to greet the Mayor on Sunday at Church. Mix up his life a bit. That's always fun. Greet him at dining and at City Hall. All fun, always totally legal. Sing Broadway tunes on the line. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 137 Registered: 12-2003 |
Update: Machiavellia Lives Lynd fears city's plan for Capitol Craig Pearson and Dalson Chen Windsor Star Tuesday, March 13, 2007 CREDIT: Star Photo-Dan Janisse Tom Lynd, acting General Manager of the Capitol Theatre reacts to media questions regarding the city's decision not to advance any money to the organization. If the Capitol Theatre is forced into bankruptcy, the city could take control of the building and its assets at a minimal cost, with no obligations and no employees, says the theatre's acting general manager. "They know darn well that if we fail, they get the building and they can negotiate with the trustee for the assets. They're sort of in the driver's seat, if we file for bankruptcy," Tom Lynd said Monday. Mayor Eddie Francis announced Monday the city will not give the troubled theatre any money. "There will be no advancement of funds," Francis said at a news conference. "There is no likelihood of an orderly transition. There is no likelihood of short-term financial stability. "And, as a result, the city will not be advancing any funds to the Capitol Theatre." If the Capitol declares bankruptcy, city hall will take over the building and its land, to which the city contributed $1.8 million in 1983. http://www.canada.com/windsors tar/news/story.html?id=5cc675b c-da23-48f2-bef2-8dd8c0377a87 | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6198 Registered: 10-2003 |
Rumor I've heard is that the City wants the Capitol to go bankrupt, then they can assume the operation without assuming the staff who would become City Employees. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 138 Registered: 12-2003 |
AIW: That seems to be the play- get rid of the Capitol board and take over running the Capitol. Then perhaps find a use for it. Not sure why no one on council has gone public with this thinking however. Could have saved a lot of anguish- I don't think there is much love for the Capitol's board at this point anyway. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6202 Registered: 10-2003 |
Agreed, but too many games (poliTRICKS) being played by the Mayor and the CLOWNsil. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9288 Registered: 10-2003 |
Good post AIW. Are you filling in for Danny? Well, the capital has filed for bankruptcy because the city didn't want to help them out. I guess because it wasn't the city's idea they should just let it go under. It sure seems that they always have money for their grand schemes. Better quality of life? What do they mean by "quality" and what do they mean by "life"? |
