(05-17-2022 12:43 PM)Claw Wrote:  

(05-17-2022 12:40 PM)Stammers Wrote:  

(05-17-2022 11:34 AM)poppaslaw Wrote:  

(05-17-2022 11:20 AM)Stammers Wrote:  

(05-17-2022 10:36 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  Just wait until the city chooses un- and under qualified contractors and doesn’t go with the lowest bid. Wouldn’t be a city of Memphis project if they didn’t do that.

Link?

Yeah they ain't pullin' a name off Angie's List.

Mortenson who built the FEF is an ENR top 20 contractor and has over 5Bil in revenue.

That dude is talking out his bonkus.

Autozone Park
FedEx Forum
IPF
Laurie Walton Center

IKR? People will say anything, no matter how ridiculous it is.

I seem to recall a missing level in the FedEx forum parking garage. Was that it?

Things happen whether you want to admit it or not. They happen every single day.

Council Members Want Investigation Into FedExForum Garage
6.13.2006







Three City Council Members Calling
For Probe Into FedExForum Funding
Three Memphis City Council members yesterday called for a federal investigation into the FedExForum parking garage, as well as “all other aspects of public spending on the arena project,” according to David Williams of the Memphis COMMERCIAL APPEAL. The garage was built with $20M in federal funds and was supposed to be a not-for-profit park-and-ride facility, but a “traditional profit-making parking garage was built and then operated by the Grizzlies.” A Tennessee DOT (TDOT) report said that the city of Memphis and the Memphis Arena Public Building Authority “‘tailored’ drawings and plans to qualify for government funding” and then built a different structure. TDOT Commissioner Gerald Nicely said that blame “could be pointed at ‘everyone involved, because of the rush to get the project on the ground.’” Williams notes the project is no longer eligible for federal funds, so the state “essentially is taking over the $20[M] funding obligation,” which allows the team to continue operating the garage for profit. City Council member Myron Lowery said, “We’re looking for the protection of the federal government to make sure that taxpayer dollars were spent the way they should have been spent -– indeed, not only for the parking garage, but for this entire facility” (Memphis COMMERCIAL APPEAL, 6/13).