A reduced seat arena that operates under the no-compete clause? A satellite to the downtowns overflowing rock and soul museums? Indoor/outdoor parking for Cooper-Young with a connecting trolley? A wrestling museum to rival Tunicas? Much needed additional office rental space near Cooper-Young? New retail jobs for youth in Orange Mound? New technologies that promote Solar panels, affordable ADA, and smart-city thinking? Im talking about repurposing the historic Mid-South Coliseum. But no, lets the knock it down instead and support that goal with cloudy facts that the destroyers paid for with your tax money. Lets destroy 51 years of good will and memories for all races in the first publicly integrated building in Memphis. And besides, everybody knows those african-american kids need more sports complexes over on the fairgrounds, right? Lets take what no one else has, what makes us special as a city, and knock it down. Im ashamed of my City for selling the Mid-South Coliseum to a developer with a wrecking ball (yes, its in the works). Im ashamed of the people who live here who allow historic demolition to happen. Im ashamed of Robert Lipscomb, the Herenton-appointed head of the Memphis Housing Authority and his lack of vision (Lipscomb will be here destroying our sense of place long after the next Mayor is appointed and we will do nothing about it). Im ashamed to be living in a time where sense of place and musical history are not appreciated by City Hall and the MHA (yet we wonder why kids are messed up and crime is escalating). Im ashamed of the Liberty Bowl management for allowing its sister building (The Mid-South Coliseum) to suffer demolition by neglect (and when did we become a football town?). I would love to know more details, but how were these developers (who the Housing Authority will not name) allowed to buy a historic landmark building without any sort of public notice, committee meeting, or approval by all the people that Im ashamed of? Robert Lipscombs life - and all our lives - are supposed to be contained within the historic scope of the Mid-South Coliseum - not the other way around. These soulless individuals in their insulated offices downtown care little for their own legacy. Their conscious goal seems to be the rape of Memphis music history and the places that make our city unique. When Robert Lipscomb tears down the Mid-South Coliseum, he tears down his own legacy as a Memphian. He might as live anywhere - and I wish he would. Here are your brethren Robert Lipscomb: The corrupt political boss Crump, the murderer Machine Gun Kelly, the baby thief Georgia Tann and now I give you....the murderer of historic Memphis places: Robert Lipscomb. And the screwy thing is, we still have time to change it. But we wont. And thats why Im ashamed of you. Drive by and take a good look at a cool modern building. It wont be there much longer. But Robert Lipscomb sure will be. Heres the Beatles at the Mid-South Coliseum..https://youtube/watch?v=xet1xTJiQhM
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 01:59:17 +0000
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