LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – Some frustration remains on the Lubbock County Commissioners Court as they review a new design for the Lubbock County Expo Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cBasically, we\u2019ve wasted seven-and-a-half million dollars on this project already. I don\u2019t want to waste another dollar,\u201d Lubbock County judge Curtis Parrish said.<\/p>\n
$375,000 was allocated to architecture firm Parkhill to create schematics for the potential layout of the venue off the North Loop and University. Randy Jordan, who has led this public-private project since the very beginning, acknowledges things have taken a lot longer than anyone had hoped for, but says this meeting is step two in the next phase of the center.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe the people of Lubbock County want this expo center, I know they do,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cWe need it, we\u2019re the largest city in the state of Texas that doesn\u2019t have a facility that can take care of some things, dirt events and what not. We need the center.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Parrish is in favor of the expo center, he wanted a few stipulations on continued support from the county, which weren\u2019t agreed to by other commissioners, Monday.<\/p>\n
The first would\u2019ve given the center until June 22nd to secure its private funding. Parrish says he wanted to add this amendment to a resolution of support.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many versions of this have we gone through with them?\u201d Parrish asked, \u201cdozens, and they\u2019re still not able to raise that money.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second amendment would\u2019ve required increase in reserve money to support the next 20 years of facility operations. Jordan says the proposed increase from five to ten million just isn\u2019t feasible.<\/p>\n
\u201c10 years ago, 8 years ago, we were hoping that was going to be $10 million dollars,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cThe economy has not allowed us to be able to do that so we went to the next best thing. We pulled back on what we\u2019re going to spend on the expo center, so we need to pull back what we think we need to hold in reserve.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judge Parrish says otherwise.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe more money we put into setting aside for operations is less money they can put into construction,\u201c Parrish said, \u201dwhich means more money that they have to come up with to build this facility.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new construction manager-at-risk, Lee Lewis Construction, is hopeful a full plan will be made for the center this winter. It\u2019s something that has some excited about our future.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cToday was another step in getting us going again.\u201d<\/p>\n
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