Comments on: Awesome New Parking Lot Planned For Shockoe Bottom http://tarichmond.com/2009/06/24/awesome-new-parking-lot-planned-for-shockoe-bottom/ Richmond's Most Accurate Source Of Misinformation Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:29:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stuart http://tarichmond.com/2009/06/24/awesome-new-parking-lot-planned-for-shockoe-bottom/comment-page-1/#comment-1728 Stuart Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:26:14 +0000 http://tarichmond.com/?p=9252#comment-1728 Technically it wasn't an opportunity since neither Highwoods nor RBC had the money to do what they were proposing. Bostic didn't have enough money to buy a baseball franchise, and Highwoods didn't have enough money to build the development. If they hadn't misrepresented the fact that this scheme was highly dependent on public money it may have turned out differently. Botched yes, but an opportunity it wasn't. Technically it wasn’t an opportunity since neither Highwoods nor RBC had the money to do what they were proposing. Bostic didn’t have enough money to buy a baseball franchise, and Highwoods didn’t have enough money to build the development. If they hadn’t misrepresented the fact that this scheme was highly dependent on public money it may have turned out differently.

Botched yes, but an opportunity it wasn’t.

]]> By: Jake http://tarichmond.com/2009/06/24/awesome-new-parking-lot-planned-for-shockoe-bottom/comment-page-1/#comment-1726 Jake Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:31:14 +0000 http://tarichmond.com/?p=9252#comment-1726 This one is funny because it's sadly true. Oh what a botched opportunity to do something great. This one is funny because it’s sadly true. Oh what a botched opportunity to do something great.

]]> By: picard http://tarichmond.com/2009/06/24/awesome-new-parking-lot-planned-for-shockoe-bottom/comment-page-1/#comment-1721 picard Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:13:52 +0000 http://tarichmond.com/?p=9252#comment-1721 That's my car, the fourth one from the left on the 2nd row. That’s my car, the fourth one from the left on the 2nd row.

]]> By: fancy little habits. « parasol party http://tarichmond.com/2009/06/24/awesome-new-parking-lot-planned-for-shockoe-bottom/comment-page-1/#comment-1720 fancy little habits. « parasol party Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:09:16 +0000 http://tarichmond.com/?p=9252#comment-1720 [...] Haha, oh Shockoe Bottom. [...] [...] Haha, oh Shockoe Bottom. [...]

]]> By: Scott Burger http://tarichmond.com/2009/06/24/awesome-new-parking-lot-planned-for-shockoe-bottom/comment-page-1/#comment-1719 Scott Burger Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:34:34 +0000 http://tarichmond.com/?p=9252#comment-1719 Hey, even this plan could be improved by....SOLAR! http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=356 Hey, even this plan could be improved by….SOLAR!

http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=356

]]> By: Stuart http://tarichmond.com/2009/06/24/awesome-new-parking-lot-planned-for-shockoe-bottom/comment-page-1/#comment-1718 Stuart Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:05:18 +0000 http://tarichmond.com/?p=9252#comment-1718 In other news, a satirical plan to leverage city assets such as schools and police K-9 units to buy a $70 million stadium for favorite son Bryan Bostic was scuttled when developers couldn't figure out a good punch line for the joke. "We opened with this great bit about how it would be totally free [to taxpayers] and we got some good laughs," quipped Highwoods lead developer Paul Kreckman. "We made some hilarious pie graphs that the focus group liked but when we delivered the tax incremental financing line, nobody got the joke and the whole gag fizzled." "We had to wrap it up pretty quick, like "GET IT?? Ta Daaaaa!!" Kreckman winked at this reporter. "The timing was just all wrong." "So anyways," Kreckman went on, "we decided this market just doesn't get our kind of humor. So we're headed back to Raleigh with a great new act we've been planning." Kreckman didn't specify details of the new routine, but Raleigh city council has offered $200,000 to review the comedy act before its debut. The Bostic/Kreckman show ran through the spring at the Funny Bone. Audience reactions were mostly hostile. In other news, a satirical plan to leverage city assets such as schools and police K-9 units to buy a $70 million stadium for favorite son Bryan Bostic was scuttled when developers couldn’t figure out a good punch line for the joke.

“We opened with this great bit about how it would be totally free [to taxpayers] and we got some good laughs,” quipped Highwoods lead developer Paul Kreckman.

“We made some hilarious pie graphs that the focus group liked but when we delivered the tax incremental financing line, nobody got the joke and the whole gag fizzled.”

“We had to wrap it up pretty quick, like “GET IT?? Ta Daaaaa!!” Kreckman winked at this reporter. “The timing was just all wrong.”

“So anyways,” Kreckman went on, “we decided this market just doesn’t get our kind of humor. So we’re headed back to Raleigh with a great new act we’ve been planning.”

Kreckman didn’t specify details of the new routine, but Raleigh city council has offered $200,000 to review the comedy act before its debut.

The Bostic/Kreckman show ran through the spring at the Funny Bone. Audience reactions were mostly hostile.

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