To get non-game day traffic, a rooftop bar/restaurant would help. I would stay in Ames more often while traveling on business just to hangout at a rooftop bar with a view of Trice and Hilton.
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The state schools issue bonds to raise funds for projects all the time. Its debt financing and is used in conjunction with private fundraising for basically any and all projects we have had. I think you have to go through a brokerage to buy them
Typically the bonds are offered in the municipal bond market. Vanguard has a search page where they can be found under the State of Iowa. (sorry not familiar with other brokerages). Priced competively at issue, then trade higher and lower in the secondary market as rates and availability change. Typically have call features and tax advantages. I have been satisfied with my past purchases of ISU bonds. (My last ones were called earlier this year).
The Foundation owned the Gateway and sold it 10 years ago to a Des Moines individual who is a donor/Governor at Iowa State
For the first ever (??), the Foundation, the Athletic Department, the Research Park, the University, The Ames Chamber and Convention group are all on the same page.
In the past, and this is normal, they are actually competing against each other for the dollars. Everyone is aligned. Get the infrastructure costs covered and you have the prospects of a fabulous deal.
All of these constituents win with this development, and it will ultimately, as has been said here, enhance all their Brands.
In the past, and this is normal, they are actually competing against each other for the dollars. Everyone is aligned. Get the infrastructure costs covered and you have the prospects of a fabulous deal.
All of these constituents win with this development, and it will ultimately, as has been said here, enhance all their Brands.
The Des Moines metro continues to grow. I was shocked to see how Ankeny has changed when I was visiting this summer.
Apples and oranges, but there’s a 30 mile stretch north of Atlanta that has exploded over the past two decades. On every exit, there is some form of a mixed use community compound: apartments, grocery, boutiques, brewery, restaurants, theaters, etc all plopped into a square. People absolutely flock to these places.
Population density is a bit different than Iowa, but those areas are making big bucks. Our CyTown might even start pulling more people to move north from the DSM metro. It’ll be a destination.
Apples and oranges, but there’s a 30 mile stretch north of Atlanta that has exploded over the past two decades. On every exit, there is some form of a mixed use community compound: apartments, grocery, boutiques, brewery, restaurants, theaters, etc all plopped into a square. People absolutely flock to these places.
Population density is a bit different than Iowa, but those areas are making big bucks. Our CyTown might even start pulling more people to move north from the DSM metro. It’ll be a destination.
Could be...When has the big 12 ever done anything progressive/aggressive?
Like the BiG or the SEC!
“The next coach”? I’m pretty sure Jamie will be long retired twenty years from now, not his worry.
Businesses that are okay with having 7 weekends a year with no parking.
I imagine a business would take that because the foot traffic around it would more than than make up for it.
It would have to be food and beverage businesses though. Nothing that you can buy and take with you because where would you put it when you go into the game? Unless they put lockers outside their stores to keep stuff you purchased before the game lol.
AKA “Corrupt a Senior”. The one time my floor rented a porn movie.
Some genius picked up a black and white. Yes, this was on the Eighties.
Having a second thought may be that the OUT buyout negotiations made the negotiations too complicated. The Big 12 has very little incentive to let them off the hook and leave money on the table. Some of the Texas schools may even feel a need for additional retribution because of their rivalry. We may just be entering a holding pattern until Texas and OU put up and shut up.
I was in Campustown after the SEMO game and my thought was it's a lot nicer than it was 10 years ago. It needs more, but Ames has always been hurt by the Campustown and downtown not being the same part of town. The only comparison I can make in terms of P5 college towns with the downtown and campustown separate are Stillwater and Manhattan. Manhattan has a nicer Campustown (its not a landslide though) but Stillwater definitely doesn't. All of them (and Ames for that matter) are plenty of fun. Ames has a better downtown than Manhattan.
The people shitting on it here are suffering from the classic "being too close" syndrome (you think what you have is terrible and the grass is much greener elsewhere). It has plenty of room for improvement, but the people acting like it's Detroit are just way off base.
The people shitting on it here are suffering from the classic "being too close" syndrome (you think what you have is terrible and the grass is much greener elsewhere). It has plenty of room for improvement, but the people acting like it's Detroit are just way off base.
Academic conferences.
When i was a student, we put on a 3 day conference for the national space society. Out at the hotel south of 30 off Elwood. Had a couple hundred attendees, maybe half stayed at the hotel. They had the space for multiple tracks of speakers, etc.
Lots of small academic and professional orgs do an annual conference. This is perfect for that.
I think between CY and Scheman events, gamedays, conferences, and events (eg weddings) it will work.
I promise its all been studied and planned and projected out by TPTB. As long as they are making good assumptions it will be OK. And I think JP has more than earned our trust on that kind of analysis.
They need a restaurant that serves a superdog in CyTown for gameday.
