The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is reporting that the Edmonton city council has approved plans to raise the extra $3 million
necessary to restore the IZOD IndyCar Series race at the Canadian city for 2011.
Edmonton officials had announced earlier this month that it could not reach a deal with race promoter Octane Motorsports
for the $3 million plus needed to repave a section of the track that had to be relocated due to the closure of one of the
runways at the airport circuit, and the event was canceled.
However, the CBC says a city report now says $1 million could come from unidentified private sponsors and $2 million would
be raised from a new 1,000-stall parking lot to be built near the track.
“What it means is that 10 months out of the year when we are not running the race, we would actually let parking happen
on the paddock and the off-track areas that will be paid for the race,” Lorna Rosen, Edmonton's chief financial
officer, told the CBC.
IndyCar Series officials haven’t uncorked a bottle of bubbly just yet. An amended deal has yet to be signed with race
promoter Octane Motorsports. Rosen told CBC that she hopes that will happen this week.
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First, the Athenaeum is going to have to get past the hurdle with the Lockerbie residents and the agreement that the parcel would be residential. Second, and in my opinion, this prime piece of property should include parking, PLUS, a black box theater(s), some market rate and affordable artist housing and a plan to renovate and reconfigure the second story theater. I would negotiate to add the DeHaan property surface parking lot into the development mix, place a one story surface parking garage on the DeHaan lot on the street level (for the Dehaan tenants use during the daytime) and add a second story to the garage that would become an addition to the current second story theater and then change the direction of the theater by moving the stage across the alley and on top of the DeHaan lot parking. You can add all the stage elements that are currently missing from the Athenaeum stage to make it more attractive for use by Ballet, Opera and traveling productions. Plus, the theater changes would probably help solve some of the soundproofing issues. Alas,it does not seem to be a part of the strategic plan to conduct a study to determine best use of the property. Seems like the current plan is a quick and easy move that ignores the property best use/potential and any strategic property planning for the effect on future generations.
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I recall that MSA's pilings are still in the ground and hard to remove. It’s not likely any proposal will include significant underground construction/parking because of this. Start adding 2 floors of retail, 8 floors of parking and 5-10 floors of possible hotel, and/or 10-20 floors of residential, and you are at 30 floors already with possible expansion of all the uses. But then again I could be wrong.
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Accoriding to their website there is no deadline to the Do Not Call list. What is this article referring to??
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On what planet are they entitled to this largesse from the stockholders? These people make multi-million dollar salaries: Pay for your own personal travel.
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It matters because they're already paid enormously fat salaries: Pay for your own personal travel. Being "taxed on it" isn't a valid excuse--so what? They're still being gifted a raft of luxury perks from somebody else's money on top of an enormous, lavish salary.
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Hope it is true, more good news in a late year spurt of good news.
IICS is doomed:
1. Chevy joins
2. Lotus joins
3. Chief is depressed
4. Izod reports 350% return on investment
5. Chief is depressed
6. I have a three year contract - can I sign on for more?
7. Chief is really depressed
To: "Someone (maybe from Indiana) will throw in $1,000,000 if we keep the race!!! So, lets build some parking spots and have that money go exclusively to holding the .1RL race."
Is that right?
If that's what they wanna do, then it's fine by me. I don't live there, so it doesn't effect my taxes. If the race goes ahead, it'll still lose big money every year, attendance will keep dropping and the taxpayers will have to bail out the promoter's losses.
It's the .1RL folks. Some things just can't change...
The $1 million is from local businesses in Edmonton and include in kind paving and equipment and cash contributions.
The City is funding the rest to create a part time race track and to provide parking for vehicles. They estimate they will make $400,000 a year in parking fees. Really a good deal all around.
From the article it sounds like when the City said it was being cancelled, the local business community came forward to push for continuing it.
You all are so needy for good news this sign of desperation is like a quill to my heart. And it tickles....bwahahhahaha! Indy is SAveD!
The more you try to downplay the good news that keeps rolling in, the more desperate you sound. It is more than obvious that the only reason you hate the IRL is some personal feeling of being wronged. It also explains your single minded desire for a personal apology.
Slapping a 2011 "INDY CAR" sticker on it today doesn't work for me.
Randy Bernard is NOT a man of his word, at least not when it comes to his suggestion to Anthony Schottle back in May 2010 that he may have to apologize for the wrongdoings of IMS since the IRL was created.
You want me (or any others like me) to be fans....? Follow through on your words Randy, don't just use them to drum up support for the POS racing series called the IRL.
There Iman, IMS just needs to appeal to the fans for forgiveness for the wrongdoing to the sport all these years. Pretty simple actually. BUT HE WON'T. And that's fine I guess as he has the 18-35 year old demographics to raise his folly from the ashes. But, not with a penny of my money until he follows up on HIS WORDS. Until then, he's a bait-and-switching car salesman to me.
I also applaud Chief for being the most obsessed, albeit darkly and with hypocrisy so thick you could use it as a SAFER barrier, Indy Car fan this side of Anthony Schoettle.
"IMS owes the UNIVERSE an apology for screwing up the good thing that AOW WAS."
Huh? If cart and champcar were so much better, how on earth could they possibly have killed themselves not once but TWICE? And how could Indy Car have possibly survived against such quality competition? You need to get your reality straight, kiddo.
"Slapping a 2011 "INDY CAR" sticker on it today doesn't work for me."
That's fine. When can we expect you to go enjoy something else, then? After all, that is what any mature person would do when offered something not in their realm of acceptance.
"Randy Bernard is NOT a man of his word, at least not when it comes to his suggestion to Anthony Schottle back in May 2010 that he may have to apologize for the wrongdoings of IMS since the IRL was created."
I do not believe he ever offered even a whiff of such an apology. The whole 'apology' deal is a concoction of Internet zealots and cart-centric pundits. Bernard did indicate he was reaching out to chagrined cart enthusiasts, mostly and largely ignorantly blaming Tony George after their favorite series killed themselves, twice...but apology? I do not think so. As a matter of fact, anyone actually serious about such an outlandish request would be considered, at least by me, to be one (or more) of the most stupid, thought-challenged persons on the entire planet.
"You want me (or any others like me) to be fans....? Follow through on your words Randy, don't just use them to drum up support for the POS racing series called the IRL."
What does 'POS' stand for? I have personally urged Randy more than once not to apologize to anyone for anything. That would weaken his position and empower non-racing fans who have clearly neither deserved nor earned such elevation. Such an act would be roughly akin to awarding Columbine High School diplomas posthumously to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
"There Iman, IMS just needs to appeal to the fans for forgiveness for the wrongdoing to the sport all these years. Pretty simple actually. BUT HE WON'T. And that's fine I guess as he has the 18-35 year old demographics to raise his folly from the ashes. But, not with a penny of my money until he follows up on HIS WORDS. Until then, he's a bait-and-switching car salesman to me."
Two points:
1. Any thin-skinned person who feels they are owed some type of apology ought to at least attempt to grow up first.
2. If you will not be spending a penny of your money, when will you stop being a hypocrite by running your loud mouth via your Internet fingers?
Defender is the classic underdog, with the junkyard dog gamer mentality and determination. You wanna say, "Go get 'em, Defender! Go!" Lesser foot soldiers for the IZOD League Car thing such as Windyman and BerwickGirl, have the heart, but lack the athletic ability. More cheerleaders than participant. But Defender now that is another story. Defender waits. Observes. Readies himself. And then pounces on the opponent. Sadly, he is a Chihuahua. But much respect for his tenacity.
Calling Talkin' Terry....your turn...
Burl 'contribution:' Defender.
Advice from adults:
1. Stick to the topic.
2. Orient yourself into actual reality. If Indy Car is dying, how could it possibly gain multiple new manufacturer partners, $84 million in new sponsorship, and prepare for the 100th anniversary of the one race that made the entire sport what it is today?
On an actual ON topic note...I am wondering why six of the last ten Schoettle blog topics are about Indy Car. For a supposedly dying sport it certainly gets a lot of attention (and commentary). This is surprising to me given the number of other available topics in sports-crazy Indiana. Heck the lowly Pacers beat the Lakers in their house the other night. Tom Crean has unlocked basketball recruiting potential not seen in decades at IU, which still can't get a winning football program on track. The Colts are more like the Dolts of yesteryear these days...and not a peep in the 'ol blog about that.
All Indy most of the time. Just the way I like it.
First, it is Schoettle. if you have trouble with spelling, go to the top of the blog and read. We have talked about your reading and comprehension problems, please try harder to do both.
So you are still waiting for an apology that a blogger said he had heard may happen that Randy said he may have to give and for things he was not even invovled in? Really? Does that not seem a little feeble to go on when discussing saying a man is not honorable?
You are really desperate and it is obvious. Again, if you do not like it, move one. Go watch F1 or ALMS, or NASCAR or whatever. Your pathetic ramblings are just emabarrasing you, or at least should be.
It is my opinion that since Randy Bernard came onboard the media has gone soft on Indy. It is a palpable change that silently works to correct the destruction the previous 15 years caused. Even though the ratings suck for the IRL they get reported no longer.....only if it favors the IRL, like in Brazil. FACT.
How does this happen? Overnight the IRL goes (in the minds of the media) from redheaded stepchild to favorite son? It's still the same hash being slung by the IRL. Bwahahahha....
Not bad for a series supposedly so close to death. It is my opinion the handful of haters squatting on sites like these to whine like little children ad nauseum are wrong again.
Big surprise.
However, the dozens of oval and road/street course markets that the IRL/CART/CCWS left in their wake will suffer continuously. I hear new IRL markets are poised for growth in Brazil and China. Go south and far east my IRL friends, that's where your growth will emerge from. Just like the VISION always planned for, exponential foreign growth at the sacrifice of AMERICAN ovals and AMERICAN drivers it was created to protect.
So which is it that you prefer...an American focus (just like the original vision you kids have largely concocted for yourselves) or an international, mostly non-oval focus?
It appears that depending on the slam you are attempting either one works depending on the 'point' you are clumsily attempting.
Actual REAL racing fans such as myself who have been watching the sport since well before cart was hatched have always appreciated the variety. As long as the primary focus of the series is IMS, I have no problems.
And in doing so, AOW was destroyed. And Defender welcomed it and supported the destruction of the sport. It's all about HIM you see...
It was? Source? Actually, The original intent of the IRL was to provide a complementary series to cart; i.e., not compete against, but simply to facilitate the entry of more Americans into big time oval racing with a schedule that did not compete. Why was that not successful long term? Because cart freaked out, let their egos get in the way, then made every possible mistake one could make before killing themselves. Twice. What did Indy Car do? Evolve organically despite the landscape scorching heaped upon the sport by cart. End result: cart = dead. Twice. Indy Car = Alive and prospering.
"Baloney....it was a LIE told by IMS/Tony George to gain control."
Hmmm. Curious. Looks like it worked, then. At least until last year. And cart is still dead. Twice. The Indy Car Series has been designated by sports professionals as 'best positioned for growth.'
"And in doing so, AOW was destroyed. And Defender welcomed it and supported the destruction of the sport. It's all about HIM you see..."
Slight correction: cart destroyed themselves. Twice. cart is not AOW. They had their moments in the sun and they screwed themselves. Indy Car IS AOW, and it is alive, well and, some might say, vibrant.
Is there any further reality with which you need my objective and patient assistance, or are you going to continue making an absolute fool of yourself?
Chief - I apologize.
Bwahahasha, or whatever that stupid madeup crap is you always end with. Made up crap, that's you.
Live it.....
IRL IRL IRL IRL IRL IRL IRL IRL IRL
Now that Edmonton is evidently back in the fold, how childishly will you act once Las Vegas is announced?
You will see Chief and his fellow haters rattle on how no one has ever been to Vegas, it is a poor place for races, it is another sign of the iminent fall of the IRL.
I see where they're cutting the support lifeline to the bottom riff-raff in the league. Good move...clearly it's an indication of the health of the series, chopping the dead weight who will never win. That leaves Sarah, Special eD, Milka and the Baguettes and Sivladrea's out of the mix. Good, more for the ex-CART teams to have and when the engines deals are done, they'll have that too. Perfect execution of the VISION.
"We need to build credibility in this sport and with our fans and this is a good place to start."
"People donâ??t buy tickets to an NFL game expecting to see inferior players and our fans are entitled to see the best drivers."
OH YEAH! That's darn close to an apology for me....
Chief, I apologize.
Man, with GM sponsoring the IRL with huge infusion of $$$30M potential, it must be a sharp stick in the eye of those workers. Maybe they can get work at the new Dallara carbon fibre plant.
GM was planning on selling the plant to another company who offered all current workers jobs at about the same pay scale they were currently getting with the agreement that new employees would be hired in at a lower salary.
The employees rejected the offer because they would rather sit on their arses and collect the union type benefits that led to the bankruptcy in the first place.
screw the city, and many people who could have gotten jobs there. Truly unfortunate. Of course so is the fact that you would try to use this unfortunate situation to be smirch GM and the IRL.
You need to quit embarassing yourself by attempting to embarass the IRL.
Whether the former GM workers have negative feelings for the IRL I do not know but merely posed the thought.
Maybe in addition to Dallara ideas I posted, the IMS can give free tix to the GM workers for the 500?
I think this whole superiority thing you got going is messing up your ability to reason. Have that checked out.
What was the IRL's ROI from it's partnership with IZOD? How has that translated into butts in seats and TV ratings?
Hypothetically, how long can the IRL sell it's soul for pennies before it's forced to up the "ante" and start charging for the sale of it's image?
I recall recent raising of IRL sanction fees had ALL ISC track balking at renewal of IRL races, resulting in several ovals being dropped because of, as the IRL puts it, ISC promoters not willing to promote the IRL product (the product that didn't catch on at 20+ other tracks in recent years). What happened?
Lot's of smoke and mirrors in the IRL, and 2011 is coming in 28 days! Pffffft!
Not really! Bawawawawaa
Defender,
The biggest thing GM needed to do, it has done...mostly. Cutting the size of the company including the number of models it sells. I hated to see Pontiac go away, my first car was a Firebird and I always loved them. Same with Saturn, it was a great idea. But the company was carrying too much overhead. Also closing a lot of plants and following the Japanese model of outsourcing parts makes them more competitive.
Quality is up. Design is very good. The Volt should be a home run. Corvette is one of the best sports cars in the world. Cadillac is competing with Germanys finest. GM's SUV's seem popular across the board judging from the number I see. They are on a good trajectory, they just need to keep it up.
IRL=no ROI for THEMSELVES despite IZOD "over the top" happiness. FACT
Just letting you know that IZOD is increasing its sponsorship in the IRL.
Many like me saw it as a gimmick like all the other IRL gimmicks.
Hey, Iman, isn't Defender's point that them unknown drivers he posted got a chance, In CART or CCWS no less. I guess you're wrong.
Many like you do not have even a fundamental understanding of the sport, much less how to be a fan. That is too bad, but I am gratified Randy and crew are attempting to broaden the appeal beyond niche fans.
Chief, I am sorry......for being the KING of your nightmare!
I remember when CART was a bad idea...Penske was behind that. He was getting too powerful, built a special engine in 1994 and took Indy with it...stole it from INDY it's self.
Now, Roger Penske is HERO. Now, Sarah Fisher gets no IRL welfare. Penske gets THREE SHARES of IRL welfare. NICE!!!
Iman, you gona get your just deserves....I don't want to hear you back track one bit if PENSKE gets too strong. You want it, you got it.
Yet, Roger Penske is a HERO to Iman and Defender? Hypocrisy at it's finest.
...and then cart died. Twice.
"Yet, Roger Penske is a HERO to Iman and Defender? Hypocrisy at it's finest."
I don't know that I would so ignorantly refer to what he does as 'hypocrisy.' When any intelligent person looks at a bigger picture the conclusion that inevitably results is that the sport is better with him than without him. He is smart enough now to recognize IMS as the center of the Indy Car universe, and that propagating the brand internationally (a topic of this Anthony blog) is good.
If Penske almost singlehandedly brings GM back to the IZOD IndyCar Series and gets all three of his cars fully sponsored, how is that bad? Were you kids not wringing your hands over 'Team Penske' sidepods just weeks ago?
Look, I am as tired of Penske and Ganassi winning every week as the next guy. How does a team overcome that? They elevate their game. Anyone can do it. Roger Penske is a self-made man. Anyone can do it. Chip Ganassi did. Why can't others? Kalkhoven and Vasser could. Maybe they will. Michael Andretti can. Maybe he will too.
If anyone is stupid enough to have deluded themselves into believing Indy Car would be better off without Roger Penske just take a look at what happened to cart, twice, when he wisely eliminated that horrid business decision.
My favorite line was from one of these sports talk radio guys the other day while discussing Jimmie Johnson's title. A caller said he almost went to Indy Cars (which is not true, btw, but anyhow...) and the host said, and I paraphrase, "Oh God, why would he want to do that? Do they still even race the Indy 500?" The caller said something in response then the host was back with "I mean who they have? Danica? She's drivign NASCAR now. And the Dancing With The Stars guy." Now that is funny, I don't care how big a gomerton fella ya are. A three-time Indy 500 champion and that is like the third or fourth time I have heard him referenced as the Dancing With the Stars guy or "that guy who won Dancing With The Stars."
There is your sport in a nutshell, Defender. There is your sport.
cart-centric haters can whine and complain all day (as they do here every single day) about their perception about how badly they feel the sport is perceived, and that is OK. cart-centric haters making themselves look foolish is something real racing fans have had to put up with since 1996.
I choose instead to enjoy the sport, comfortable in the knowledge that as long as it remains aligned with IMS it will be here long after the two of us have departed the planet.
IRL should start an alacarte IPTV setup...and THEN we'll see if it sells. NOPE.
The IZOD IndyCar Series has begun taking steps to enhance spectacular Versus coverage with comprehensive Internet accessibility on a variety of delivery platforms, and therein lies a lot of the future.
If I were you I would also watch for several major announcements before the next racing season begins about new alignments (and subsequent brand dissemination) with acquired NBC/Universal properties.
It will be painful for the haters. This is no Spike rinky-dink pay deal.
Two things characterize such behavior:
1. Immaturity
2. Ignorance
That is an unfortunate combination.
Two things characterize such behavior:
1. Delusional.
2. Intellectual dishonety.
Terry....get in the box....your up!
When someone messes up, it's not FAILURE...it's an OPPORTUNITY. IRL screws up AOW, it's an OPPORTUNITY to fix it.
Here we are in 2010, and if using the 12 step approach, the IRL skipped steps 8, 9, 10.
Sweet! Everythings coming up roses!!! WooT!
Defender asked you to back up your claims about Versus. What gives, where are your stats?