Beam signing ceremony at convention center

Put all politics and the good o'le boys aside! The center will bring some economic benefits if it stays booked, a new crop of visitors will pass through your fair city each week spending money and helping the local economy. Next to help downtown,get rid of some of the seedy bars and the elements that they bring, build a Macy's or Saks as an anchor store downtown, along with bringing back small boutique shops along front and second streets. Add to it, free parking a decent grocery store, and you would see downtown return to its pre 1960's prestige.

I keep hearing how the room tax will pay for this center in its entirety. I DO NOT believe it will turn out that way, but let's wait & see. Of course, by then it will be too late as our taxes will be climbing again. Plus, during this downturn will the hotels stay full enough? Once again I don't claim to know for sure but I can guess. Yes, I know what the Mayor & Council say... and Congress & Wall Street are also to be trusted.

Those officials and the corrupt parasites of the Chamber who benefit from this by stealing money from struggling taxpayers and give it to themselves...of course they're cheering this convention center. It's bad enough the Chamber parasites and Realtors have corrupted Wilmington politics by buying every office in town. It's worse that the unethical people they've put in office raise taxes and fees on us little people to handout to the Chamber thieves for convention centers and ridiculous studies. That's not right wing talk radio, its fact...

I am sorry but as a Wilmington native, I say this, who would want to come to the downtown area? Sure a few streets are nice, but overall it is not a fun and or attractive place. You cannot go into the library downtown without going through a little homeless person hang out. Also, the traffic, we live in a town not designed to handle the traffic we have, so the solution I guess is to add more. That money could be better spent if the city counsel would look around. Our city schools are falling apart, students lack books they need to take state mandated and don’t have the amenities the suburban schools have but I guess we get a little blinded from our plush estate in Landfall. So yippee!! Let’s sign a beam and build something the City taxpayers never wanted in the first place.

Lets see who profits from this center. Wonder if Saffo's brother will get the contract for all the painting?

Not a boondoggle..in this economic downtown, this is a economic engine and thank God for the foresight of the leaders who are making it happen! The only controversy here is the right wing radio personality who is associated with this news station and the clear intent of this station to make this a controversy...Over 600 leaders gathered yesterday from every sector of this community and they ALL cheered the completion of this project for the people, by the people, and for the common good! Praise be that we have better sense than to listen to the naysayers in a time when we need the leadership we have!

Well, I was wrong. This convention center will be a good idea after all. As more & more people lose their jobs we can turn the convention center into a homeless shelter and soup kitchen.

The way that the Econmy is you would think they would put the Convention center on HOLD!I have seen big companys like Lowes home improvment and Lowes food and Walmart put building new stores on hold why in the world would we continue to build HOW MUCH MONEY are you lining your pocket with just like every thing else in Wilmington that the Mayors in the past have collected off of Good work lets save building it so it will not be a failure and the people that have fought it all a long will say I told you so.I think building it is a good idea but not now