LANCASTER COUNTY PRESS RELEASE
Commissioner Martin Praises the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority for their Continued Support
LCCCA Votes to Support the Updated Convention Center Financing Plan Collaboration Agreement
LANCASTER, Pa. (June 9, 2014) – Commissioner Martin today praised the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority (LCCCA) for their unanimous vote to support the updated Convention Center Financing Plan Collaboration Agreement, which he first presented publically at a press conference on May 23, 2014.
“I greatly appreciate the continued support of LCCCA,” stated Commissioner Martin. “It is important that this plan, which addresses 7 years of revenues and 7 years of expenditures and provides a bridge of financial stability as we await the opportunity to establish a long term plan in the future, is supported and adopted by all the stakeholders.”
Commissioner Martin previously stressed that all stakeholders must approve the deal prior to June 11, 2014. “I commend the LCCCA for looking at the larger picture and agreeing to this plan and encourage the remaining stakeholder, Penn Square Partners, to do the same.”
To date, Penn Square Partners is the only stakeholder who has not yet approved this agreement. The Pennsylvania Dutch Convention and Visitors Bureau and the City of Lancaster have approved the plan.
And PSP will NOT, at least NOT without some other conditions, caveats, changes or side deals for the benefit of their own pocketbook. You really have to LOVE these public-private PARTNERSHIPS!
PSP should be tarred and feathered, AND THEN RUN OUT OF TOWN (FAR OUT OF TOWN!!), if they do not sign off on this proposal, just the way it is proposed.
I hope they don’t sign off and this convention center fiasco goes down the toilet where it belongs.
If PSP gets their way, the PDVCB will be extremely unhappy. Perhaps enough for them to withdraw from the agreements?
A Lancaster Newspapers reporter attended the Friday June 6. 2014 special meeting of the LCCCA. A well-written article appeared on Lancaster Online later that evening, but by Saturday morning it had disappeared. (As this is being written, the article is still referenced in a Google search for “Scott Martin”, but no cached copy is available.) Neither did it appear in the newspaper.
The report was well-written and demonstrated no favoritism. I wonder why it was removed?