First you build it, then the fat lady sings...

It was announced today that groundbreaking for the Performing Arts Centre will be this October and construction will begin in December. I’m personally excited about the news. My wife occasionally plays viola with the Kansas City Symphony and can tell you first hand how dead the sound is in both the Lyric and the Midland Theaters. They just weren’t designed for that kind of live performance. There is one thing that concerns me though. Kansas City has pledged $47 Million to the project in the form of two parking garages. In typical City Hall fashion I’m told that no one is quite sure where this money is going to come from. Of course I’m asking for this council job that’s going to come with the burden of finding about a billion dollars to fix our combined sewer system. With that staring me in the face $47 Million doesn’t seem all that impossible. I guess I’d better go check the batteries in my business calculator.