Yesterday afternoon, the was an open house at the new Tecumseh East, East Side arena. Located downtownbehind a factory towards the eastern city limits, as far as possible from downtown, another temple to the car is going up. Drive in, drive out. It’s the Windsor Way.
As you walk down the service drive from the Lear plant parking lot, the beast rises.
The not-arena part is coming along swimmingly. The arena? Judge for yourself…
The plans for your tax dollars.
For the photo op’s, they even installed a “fake” centre ice.
Under the seating area. The last time you’ll see photos from under here…
Looking from the “large gym” area towards one of the extra community ice pads.
Inside the rink.
A view down the hallway linking the arena to the community centre portion.
This was referred to as the “Concession area”.
Steve Bell of AM800 was the MC for the “press conference” portion of the afternoon.
Blah, blah, blah…
We were graced with Royalty. His Royal Highness King Eddie, Dictator of the Banana Republic of Windsor, sporting a nice smirk too I might add. November 2010 can’t come soon enough….
Some guy from the Credit Union on the left, and former NHL player and current Spits co-owner and GM, Warren Rychel. I do have to say those new Spitfires Throwback Jersey’s are pretty sharp.
Well that it folks, off for more tours.
I have what I call the three acumens of Canadian business. They are: charge what you can while you can. Economists in T.O. say demand drives up prices unlike across the border where it’s said “We don’t deal in profit. We deal in volume!” A few years back, several hurricanes ripped through the southern states and stocks of plywood were depleted. The Americans turned to their number one trading partner and MacBlo in B.C. said they can have all they want at an inflated price to cover the cost of overtime to refill their huge warehouse out west. The Americans wound up getting the plwood from Japan at a below the market price. Then, avoid customer service at all costs, hence voicemail etc. where you have one 5 minute shot with somone sitting in front of a screen thousands of miles away because the jobs don’t exist here anymore. Service society? Hardley. Then, when all else fails, blame it on the Americans. We are a little country of 33 million, totaly reliant on immigration for growth. We need all forms of government to get off our backs and help the small business owner who is the backbone of our country. And, I’d like to see more competetive pricing to keep us on this side of the border. The so-called society of entitlement hasn’t worked. You don’t get paid for showing up: you get paid for honest work.
Amen Mark. The WFCU job fair was awful as well.