Monday, December 17, 2018

Connect2Culture to ask Joplin City Council for seven-month extension to raise money for Arts and Entertainment Complex

If a movie Field of Pipe Dreams is ever made, the catch phrase will undoubtedly be "build an arts and entertainment center and they will come."

But first, you have to get the money.

Connect2Culture's Clifford Wert will ask the Joplin City Council to extend the deadline for the organization to raise the money to fund the overwhelmingly popular idea of building the Harry M. Cornell Arts and Entertainment Center in the current Memorial Hall parking lot for an additional seven months.



The deadline to raise the $14 million the organization promised already passed 17 days ago, with $12.3 million raised. $1.7 million short. The biggest contributor to this point has been Cornell, who gave $5 million.

In addition to Wert's update on the progress of the Cornell Complex, tonight's City Council agenda includes a bill to amend the city's memorandum of understanding to provide the extra seven months for Connect2Culture.




7 comments:

  1. They will raise the funds....but who is funding ongoing operational costs...

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  2. Anonymous2:08 PM

    And oh look--they are hiring the same lame architects that gave us the beyond-ugly and wildly uncomfortable schools and public library. Hate to think it, but do we need to hope for another natural disaster to flatten these repulsive structures?

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  3. Anonymous6:19 PM

    Mr. Cornell trust until 2033.

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  4. Anonymous7:06 PM

    The building design is atrocious.

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  5. Anonymous7:42 AM

    In Paris you have the internationally known Left Bank area for arts and culture.

    In Joplin you gots the Left Bank of Turkey Creek. Visiting consultant experts and the local swells all know Joplin's Left Bank area could be sumthin special if you can jest git enuf Other People's Money to git-r-dun!

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  6. Anonymous5:49 PM

    NO NO NO!!!

    The council is going along with this because they don't want to keep Memorial Hall.

    This C2C bunch is ridiculous.

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  7. Anonymous6:10 PM

    Another "ball park" scam in the making.
    Thank you city council.

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