Greedy greedy City of Orlando!!
If you’ve ever gone to an event at the “O-rena” (sorry, I can’t bear myself to advertise) or the Bobb Carr… you’ve probably had to pay $5 to park. Get ready to fork over $10 now. At least if the city has it’s way that is.
Beginning Oct. 1, the city plans to raise the cost for event parking at city-owned lots and garages around Carr and the T.D. Waterhouse Centre from $5 to $10. City Council expects to decide on the plan Monday.
The brouhaha began after Allen Johnson became Centroplex director a year ago and discovered he had a million-dollar deficit. The shortage doesn’t stem from the arena or Carr, he says, but from the Expo Centre, a small convention center that was long underused until it was converted this summer into the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy, a University of Central Florida graduate program.
To help make up the shortfall, Johnson proposed doubling the price of event parking in Centroplex’s surface lots. That cost was $3 when the arena opened in 1989. It rose to $4 in 1991 and $5 in 1994.
Way to go Orlando… solve money problems with making the residents pay more…. good plan. However, what will happen in attendance drops off so dramatically that some of the small art troupes leave and the revenue isn’t changed at all. Brilliant idea.
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