All three then county commissioners came to agree that the sale of the Conestoga Nursing Home was conducted with inappropriate haste. Yet many will recall how enraged and outspoken then Sunday News columnist Art Morris was that in private hands the quality of service would greatly suffer. It appears his concerns and those of many […]
Month: December 2008
Museum Tower Condos needed. But will location work?
The announcement of high rise condominiums by a first rate team of developer Steve Risk, architects John De Vitry and Ken Hammel, and real estate broker Marilyn Berger bodes well for downtown Lancaster. The Museum Tower Condominiums would be built above the combination museum and parking garage to be constructed on the vacant northeast corner […]
Negligent planning by prior CC board
The original operational budget for the convention center only included a minimal (I think 5%) reserve for maintenance, repair, and replacement. Within the last year, the LCCCA Finance Committee headed by Laura Douglas with active support from R.B. Campbell – was able to change the rules so that a much greater maintenance reserve fund will […]
Sales at CC vs libraries
The sales and marketing competence by Interstate Hotels and Resorts for the Convention Center Project is precisely what is absent from the fragmented sixteen libraries, albeit if combined into one organization they would approximate the size of the convention center project and serve a far greater number of people. As things now stand, a library […]
Pros marvel at convention center sales competence
Shortly after the end of the Convention Center Marketing Committee meeting while awaiting the start of the monthly full Authority Board meeting, two veteran hotel and commercial real estate executives chatted in the corridor about how impressed they were with the performance of the Convention Center project sales and marketing staff. When Josh Nowak, Director […]
Lehigh Valley CC closes doors
I could reiterate that the new Lehigh Valley Convention Center went out of business and shuttered its doors a few months ago.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
The article of Dec. 18 leads “County holds tax in check. Commissioners pass an ‘austere’ budget that will leave the property tax rate at 3.416 mills for 2009.” WATCHDOG: News articles are expected to give voice to all sides. We can understand the incomplete New Era report because it was posted within half an hour […]
Prison no Tuperware party
While I agree with your editorial about media culpability in sensationalizing certain crimes, I have a question. How would the other inmates know who the new inmate is, or what crime he is charged with? That information could only come from the guards at the prison. I don’t believe that going to prison is like […]
EDITORIAL: Is media coverage complicit in suicide?
No matter how vile the crimes for which a prisoner has been convicted and / or currently stands accused, he or she is entitled to fair treatment and protection while in custody. We live in a nation of laws, not vigilantism. How the media reports on sex related crimes plays a part in generating the […]
Did authorities contribute to inmate’s suicide?
On Dec. 17, the New Era stated “Lancaster County Prison inmates relentlessly taunted a suspected child molester, urging him to kill himself, right up until the moment he did so four weeks ago in Lancaster County Prison.” Soon after the Nov. 19th suicide and long before it was mentioned in the print media, NewsLanc received […]
County prisoners to get better prices
At their Dec. 17 meeting, the County Commissioners “piggy backed” a contract already existing between the County of Lehigh with Oasis Management Systems for inmate commissary services at the Lancaster County prison for a three year period. The county will receive 37% of revenue from the sale of sundries. In turn, all of the money […]
Commissioners avoiding new taxes is a dubious achievement
At their Dec. 17 meeting, County Commissioners Dennis Stuckey, Scott Martin and Craig Lehman congratulated their department heads and staffs and, seemingly, themselves for having cut expenditures in order to achieve a balance budget for 2009 without the need for a tax increase. But two members of the audience, taking different tacks, objected to such […]
Dillersville Rail Yard controversy
In reference to the Dillerville Rail Yard, this project should have been under the direction of an independent board – with absolutely no connections with either F&M or Norfolk Southern – from the start. (LGH has simply gone along for the ride, pardon the pun.)
Bad news for the Convention Center Project
PKF Hospitality Research is forecasting a 7.8% drop in hotel revenue per room night sold (hence overall room revenue) in 2009 without recovery starting to take place until the second quarter of 2010. They described the current situation as “the fifth largest annual decline in this important measure since 1930.” Since the Convention Center will […]