tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post4079750657791780708..comments2024-03-25T13:42:25.771-05:00Comments on Advance Indiana™: Latest ROC E-Mails Leave Holes, Show Mayor's Office Driving Force Behind Eastgate SiteGary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-3640035928005731382014-11-06T17:03:17.594-05:002014-11-06T17:03:17.594-05:00This just might throw a wrench in mayoral hopeful ...This just might throw a wrench in mayoral hopeful Ben Hunter. Will Rep. Brooks support Ben's mayoral bid? The entire facility is unsightly and an eyesore. Shameful on so many levels.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-75437498062405924622014-11-03T10:04:28.153-05:002014-11-03T10:04:28.153-05:00I found the telling sentence in your blog to be: S... I found the telling sentence in your blog to be: Shortly thereafter, Straub complained in an e-mail to Mayes that "for whatever reason Eastgate is still being kept in play by the Mayor's office." Straub seems to come out as a bit of a mushroom - Fed Sh-t and kept in the dark.<br /><br />Given the amount of funding necessary to complete the ROC prudence would dictate at two other choices for a location other than Eastgate. Some how Straub is aware of "Ersal's" property. <br /><br />It seems rather obvious Mayor Blowhole wanted to fit the square peg and to the round hole of Eastgate no matter what the cost to the tax payers. Floggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10383015097067413086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-80813348736482331542014-11-03T00:29:10.544-05:002014-11-03T00:29:10.544-05:00This whole piece is a deposition..Shame on Susan B...This whole piece is a deposition..Shame on Susan Brooks, Ben Hunter...Hello contact Butler...like they didn't know... and more...KarmaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-91637065727172983462014-11-02T19:59:29.112-05:002014-11-02T19:59:29.112-05:00Not only should that dishonest bloated rat Greg Ba...Not only should that dishonest bloated rat Greg Ballard be indicted for fraud but so should long time long term Democrat hack Mary Moriarty Adams and Republican ego-freak Ben Hunter and David Brooks and Susan ("Mrs. David") Brooks.<br /><br />This travesty shows us the City is run by cartoon characters motivated by self interest above all else.<br /><br />No wonder Ryan Vaughn was moved out of the COS position to yet another high paying job... they want to try to keep him untainted by his own part in a corrupt administration so they can run him for office later.<br /><br />Ballard is proved on hard copy in black and white to be an utter incompetent boob who has no business at the head of a City much less a Marine unit.<br /><br />The old Eastgate Mall is an absolute eyesore and just another of Boob Ballard's great failures upon this City. Indianapolis east siders deserve far better than the dastardly political fleas they've been infested with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-87328770155743635592014-11-02T17:51:43.044-05:002014-11-02T17:51:43.044-05:00At this point we don’t care what costs the city in...At this point we don’t care what costs the city incurs at the Regional Operations Center. We just want the development of the property to resume, we want the “look” of the property to improve, and we want the neighborhood to realize some benefit from the deal. Right now the ROC looks like an abandoned factory. Drive up and down Shortridge. Its a mess. Unpainted. Unlandscaped. Unfinished. No signs of life. Neighboring businesses suffer from being in proximity to an eyesore. Where are all the employees of this Regional Operations Center? We don’t see cars, we don’t see people in the businesses. It just looks deserted most of the time. These enormous blocks of stone ring the property like a horrible, half-finished fence. They can’t even get the building completely painted white. It just looks like some foreclosed, vacant commercial property after all the signs have been removed. Just awful. Is this what the neighborhood was promised? No. They lied. From the day Bart Peterson stood at the site and announced the project. They said it would be beautiful, landscaped, full of people. A destination project, a repurposed building that would benefit the neighborhood. Many thought it should be razed and turned into a park. But they said this would be better. That a couple of thousand people would work here and they would need restaurants and dentists and groceries. All lies. I think Greg Ballard ought to be indicted for fraud. For perpetrating a fraud upon this neighborhood and everyone doing business in it. I feel personally lied to and…just deceived. And I think the “mayor” ought to come clean and stand out back on the Shortridge side of this derelict and tell us what is going to happen next. We have had enough BS. How about the truth. I’m quite serious when I say that Greg Ballard ought to be indicted for fraud. Because as an east sider I can tell you that I was lied to at every step. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com