For those of you who wish to run Dean Spanos and the San Diego Chargers out of town and sell off the Qualcomm Stadium site to a developer to generate revenue for the City, I have the following question:
Where do you think we should put the 10,000 people (or more) who are displaced by the next wildfire or earthquake, or whatever natural disaster?
The current crisis could not demonstrate more clearly that this facility (or its replacement) does not just serve as an entertainment venue. Right now it’s not generating one damn penny of revenue for our City, but I would venture that it’s a safe guess to say that most if not all of the 10,000 or so people who were there yesterday, are there today and/or tomorrow consider it priceless.
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Jeff Brown
10.23.07 at 2:47 pm
Not bat thinking for a real-i-tor.
markgilliland
10.23.07 at 8:24 pm
what about using the FEMA camps. I thought that was what they are for??
Steve Berg
10.24.07 at 9:15 am
Excuse me? What FEMA camps?? Every shelter I know of in this County was established by local officials and is staffed and supplied by local volunteers. FEMA officials just arrived in San Diego yesterday.