{"id":1286,"date":"2009-11-25T01:43:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T05:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2009-11-25T01:48:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T05:48:19","slug":"what-does-583k-get-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"What Does $583k Get Ya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Try the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pontiac_Silverdome\" target=\"_blank\">Pontiac Silverdome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The arena was built in 1975 for $55.7 million but was costing cash strapped Pontiac about 1.5 million a year to maintain so it was time to go.\u00c2\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamsauction.com\/silverdome\/videoplayer.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">videos<\/a> on the auction&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamsauction.com\/silverdome\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> show a mothballed facility that is in good shape and virtually turnkey&#8230; 127.5 acres, 462,000 sq ft, 46 concession areas, 56 restrooms, 15,000 sq ft restaurant, two banquet facilities, 97 suites, 12,774 parking spaces, 3 out buildings, broadcast equipment, Diamond Vision, offices, lockerooms,\u00c2\u00a0 maintenance facility and more.<\/p>\n<p>Simply amazing!\u00c2\u00a0 It reminds me of when Geauga Lake closed in Fall 2007 and the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=columbus+city+center+demolition\" target=\"_blank\">demolition<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbus_City_Center\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus City Center<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Reuse anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try the Pontiac Silverdome. The arena was built in 1975 for $55.7 million but was costing cash strapped Pontiac about 1.5 million a year to maintain so it was time to go.\u00c2\u00a0 The videos on the auction&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 website show a mothballed facility that is in good shape and virtually turnkey&#8230; 127.5 acres, 462,000 sq ft, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}