Tri-Citians Stand Behind Regional Centers
March 1st, 2007
It’s time for the Tri-Cities to put parochialism aside and come together to accomplish new goals, said several people attending a public forum Tuesday in Pasco.
The meeting, attended by about 60 people, was the second of three held this week to discuss possible regional center projects that could be built in the Tri-Cities. The next meeting will be today in Kennewick.
The two leading ideas remain an aquatics center and a performing arts center. The aquatics center could feature a 50-meter competition pool, a lazy river, a wave pool a party room and other amenities. It could cost in the neighborhood of $30 million.
A performing arts center could cost closer to $50 million and could include two or three theater venues for local and touring performing arts groups.
Projects could be funded publicly through new and existing taxing mechanisms, or through joint public-private partnerships.
Resources in the Tri-Cities include a collective $9 billion in total taxable property value as of 2006 and $2.7 billion in taxable retail sales as of 2005…[more]
By Joe Chapman, Tri City Herald Staff Writer
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