Auburn auction park

[55fairlane]

https://www.wane.com/top-stories/wanted-big-ideas-for-old-auburn-auction-park/

Some place wants ideas on what to do with it, they want to make a sportsball complex out of it.
Here is my idea, let's keep it an auto auction park. The countless millions spent there, the revenue created, the classic cars and the history they represent. The countless fathers and sons who bought a project there and spent a life time connected to each other because of a hands on project.
But the current idea is a sports complex, why do we really need another to worship the sports ball? Another place to dumb down our minds? Another place to kick the ball? Another place to promote "I kick the ball"

Give me your thoughts?

 

[Cameramonkey]

Bread and circuses.

Bread and circuses...

 

[bgcatty]

Seriously? A sports complex? Don’t the idiots up there see what’s happened to Grand Junction in Hamilton County and the financial fiasco that it has become?

 

[55fairlane]

Seriously? A sports complex? Don’t the idiots up there see what’s happened to Grand Junction in Hamilton County and the financial fiasco that it has become?

Isn't that part of the master plan?

 

[Super Bee]

I worked up there for years helping put on car shows and assisting with the festival parade, its a shame what Kruse did to that place. At one point they were hoping to put in a dragstrip.

 

[Ingomike]

Seriously? A sports complex? Don’t the idiots up there see what’s happened to Grand Junction in Hamilton County and the financial fiasco that it has become?

I am not seeing reports that they are trying to make this a public financed and owned project like GP is. Have you?

 

[OneBadV8]

They’ve not held auctions there for a while. The labor day auction is now being done by worldwide auctioneers and they’re in Kruze Plaza on the other side of I-69.

So a sports ball complex that actually gets used and brings in revenue sounds better than an old auction park that just sits and is no longer utilized

 

[Destro]

I am all for creating opportunities for ways to get kids off the couch and computer and outdoors engaging in physical activity, team building, developing character, and learning life lessons they can take with them forever.

My kids have learned more about life (positive AND negative) playing sports in school than they would have holding a flashlight for me as I swear and gradually lose interest in a money pit in the garage, nevermind I don't have the time or inclination to take on something like that. If that is something someone IS inclined to take on, there are more sources available to the public than ever before to find a hooptie.

 

[MrSmitty]

I worked up there for years helping put on car shows and assisting with the festival parade, its a shame what Kruse did to that place. At one point they were hoping to put in a dragstrip.

No one drag races anymore, they'd rather take a small car and driving in circles, smoking the tires, some skill involved, but nothing like launching off the line and trying not to miss a shift....oh yeah, because kids these days can't drive a manual shift....I was looking at a car the other day, and showed my son, and he said "who wants a stick shift?" I thought I raised him better.......