WEBB: Mesker Amphitheatre should be torn down — but needs to be saved - Evansville Courier & Press
Blight is all the rage in Evansville. Clarification: Fighting blight is all the rage in Evansville. There is, after all, a big difference between saying “President Reagan’s main focus is fighting drugs, mainly cocaine” and “President Reagan’s main focus is drugs, mainly cocaine. In his 2016 budget proposal to the City Council this week, Mayor Lloyd Winnecke sought $1. 5 million to transform Brownfields Corp. Sparked by the work of those trouble-makin’ scamps from Who Owns That, the city sued the owner of a recently demolished West Side warehouse. In the aftermath, both Winnecke and his Democratic mayoral challenger Gail Riecken came to the site of the warehouse to field questions from the public and put forth plans on how to eradicate any burned-out hellscapes that may arise in the future. Indiana Landmarks recently completed exterior renovations of the former Greyhound Station — significant for being a portal to and from this great city — and public funds were poured into the Owen Block — significant for being big and blue. Various consultants have said it would cost between $8 million and $12 million to bring Mesker up to code, and much more than that to. Source: www.courierpress.com
