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Rolling Acres Mall looks like the Taj Mahal compared to this.

I'd say it's now way far past putting a dome on it and reopening it. Maybe 10s of millions of dollars past that, not even including the dome. And that's besides the yearly maintenance/operating expenses that the U of A already said was unsustainable.

Maybe we should just continue to let it deteriorate, and use it as a tourist attraction like the Roman Coliseum a few thousand years from now, and bill Akron as the new Athens, Greece, and draw tourists from around the world, and tell them about some ancient, barbaric game called "Football", that used to be played in the venue.

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Skip's feelin' it! Good creativity. I'd suggest that UA invest a few bucks in a couple of buckets of paint and send someone out there to cover up all the UA markings. It's no longer owned by UA, but some looking at all the school markings will still associate it with UA, which is not good for UA's image. Maybe painting a big Team 1 Marketing Group logo on the RB and getting their name more associated with the mess would help expedite their plans to do something with it.

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Team 1 Marketing Group has resorted to promoting concerts rather than building domes. They owe more in property taxes ($73,983) than they paid for the property. They are currently delinquent in their payments.

That's usually the beginning of the end. Assuming that they paid cash for it, there's no bank lien. They could let it go and it would eventually be auctioned for the county to recover their property taxes. Unless, the property tax liens have been "sold" to a lienholder, in which case, someone other than the county already has a claim to the property.

Like I said, usually it's hard to recover from this point. It seems as if they had potential plans, but may have decided to abandon them?

The only other option, I believe, would be to try to sell the property. But with a 73K lien on it, what are the chances?

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Skip's feelin' it! Good creativity. I'd suggest that UA invest a few bucks in a couple of buckets of paint and send someone out there to cover up all the UA markings. It's no longer owned by UA, but some looking at all the school markings will still associate it with UA, which is not good for UA's image. Maybe painting a big Team 1 Marketing Group logo on the RB and getting their name more associated with the mess would help expedite their plans to do something with it.

Hey Dave, since I mentioned "Rolling Acres", I would like to expand on that tourism idea.

How about if we include Rolling Acres as a bus stop on that tourism campaign, then we can include "Ancient American Football Stadium" and "Ancient American Shopping Mall" on the same tour?

I'm sure that the people of the 30th Century would be quite fascinated with Akron's bygone way of life.

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Maybe we should just continue to let it deteriorate, and use it as a tourist attraction like the Roman Coliseum a few thousand years from now, and bill Akron as the new Athens, Greece, and draw tourists from around the world, and tell them about some ancient, barbaric game called "Football", that used to be played in the venue.

In 1811, Paul Williams settled near the corner of what is now Buchtel Avenue and Broadway and suggested to surveyor of the Connecticut Western Reserve General Simon Perkins, the co-founding of a town at the summit of the developing Ohio and Erie Canal. The name derived from the Greek word ἄκρον signifying a summit or high point. (Wikipedia)

So there's your ready-made tie-in to Greece.

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In 1811, Paul Williams settled near the corner of what is now Buchtel Avenue and Broadway and suggested to surveyor of the Connecticut Western Reserve General Simon Perkins, the co-founding of a town at the summit of the developing Ohio and Erie Canal. The name derived from the Greek word ἄκρον signifying a summit or high point. (Wikipedia)

So there's your ready-made tie-in to Greece.

PERFECT. Thanks for sharing this fact.

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We couldn't land a minor league team, but there is football to be played at the Rubber Bowl yet in the form of semi-pro football.

http://summitcountystorm.org/

http://summitcountystorm.org/home-stadium

http://www.thepafl.com/?hc_location=ufi

That should pay the rent... :rofl:

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We couldn't land a minor league team, but there is football to be played at the Rubber Bowl yet in the form of semi-pro football.

http://summitcountystorm.org/

http://summitcountystorm.org/home-stadium

http://www.thepafl.com/?hc_location=ufi

That should pay the rent... :rofl:

Ok, now I really want to know more. This entity is going to be playing at the Rubber Bowl in 2015? As their website suggests?

After the pictures we just saw, I guess they could walk in there and play a football game on that field, but there's not going to be any allowable safe public or team access to any other part of that stadium. And the money it would take to make this venue even remotely inhabitable is going to be invested for this? Something that might attract...what...a few dozen paying fans per game?

Come on. There's no way anyone involved could possibly think this is actually going to even happen there.

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We couldn't land a minor league team, but there is football to be played at the Rubber Bowl yet in the form of semi-pro football.

http://summitcountystorm.org/

http://summitcountystorm.org/home-stadium

http://www.thepafl.com/?hc_location=ufi

That should pay the rent... :rofl:

Speaking of semi-pro football, whatever happened to Quentin Hines' league? :beam:

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Ok, now I really want to know more. This entity is going to be playing at the Rubber Bowl in 2015? As their website suggests?

After the pictures we just saw, I guess they could walk in there and play a football game on that field, but there's not going to be any allowable safe public or team access to any other part of that stadium. And the money it would take to make this venue even remotely inhabitable is going to be invested for this? Something that might attract...what...a few dozen paying fans per game?

Come on. There's no way anyone involved could possibly think this is actually going to even happen there.

I've been to a couple semi-pro games and they don't draw many people besides friends and relatives. One was at Copley High School. and one played in a park. So I wonder why they chose such a big stadium, and one that has no seating or anything else left. Maybe it was cheaper than renting a high school stadium.

Unless they do some work to it, I'm not going back there. I want to remember it for how it was, not sit in the rotting dump it has become since the Zips moved out.

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