Ford Center updates - City of Evansville plan

The Indiana Toll Road went through this when Daniels was governor. The highway from Illinois across N. Indiana was leased to an outfit from, I think, Spain. That operation went belly-up a few years ago and I don't know what became of the contract. The outfit leasing the highway just doubled the tolls and didn't actually do much else.

No idea who would lease a street and what they plan to do with it -- turn it into a parking lot and charge rent? That document is what is wrong with America. 

I await the story on ramifications. 

I see N. Main from Lloyd to Morgan Ave (Bosse Field) is on there. Wonder how much money they wasted on developing and installing the poorly designed street and bike lanes on North Main.

If the city wants upgrades to Ford Center, why not just ask the people who might care about a street to just donate to the Ford Center instead of participating in some peculiar "street leasing" contest? The Ford Center doesn't need filtered-down money from private businesses as much as it needs the money directly. I assume a ribbon message board generates income, so asking private income to fund a project that promotes private income ... how many people get their cut of that pie before the dollar invested is actually only worth 12 cents?

If this is just a clever way of making the city the center of some kind of trend towards advertising almost everything, I have a better idea:

Let's just rename the team the State Farm Insurance Evansville Aces.

Not being at all literate in what makes technology work, I do know that the things that go into a "machine" now are a lot more advanced than the "machine" is. Which is why companies keep upgrading their websites, so as to allow for new software to work better inside an old framework. That taps me out on it, mostly, but a guy told me once: You wouldn't expect an oooga horn to work very well on a car that goes 105 miles an hour. So the building isn't the problem, it's that the people who keep inventing software expect the people who bought the hardware to keep up with them. I guess that's capitalism. We are evidently in a world where nobody wants to pay more taxes to get the same stuff they expected to get in the past.
But again, if you want corporate money to invest in public projects, why not just get all the money instead of forming up some kind of bartering system? I will trade you a cow for your pig because if I sell the pig, I can get another cow. 

The only two "upgrades" the FC needs is to correctly handle the seats in the endzone.  Should have retractable rows that extend all the way to the floor like almost every other stadium in the country.  I know this won't happen because it would require them to lower the floor, which will never happen.  

The other upgrade is the basketball that is played on the court by the Aces.  That's the only upgrade I care about.