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State Asked to Nix $232M for Convention Center

PHILADELPHIA-Just as the state legislature is about to consider authorization of a $232-million grant to fund expansion of the Pennsylvania Convention Center, a local civic association urges lawmakers to turn down the request until the Convention Center Authority implements change.

By Marita Thomas | Updated on June 27, 2002

PHILADELPHIA-On behalf of the Greater Philadelphia First civic association, chief executive officer Sam Katz, has sent a letter to the governor’s office and legislators, urging the state to withhold funding for expansion of the Downtown Pennsylvania Convention Center until the convention authority board provides “demonstrable evidence of implementation” of management changes that have been recommended. For now, GPF refuses to endorse the $232-million state grant the authority is seeking to foot half the $464-million bill for a 300,000-sf addition to the center.

Mere promises to adapt recommendations made by locally based-Econsult, according to Katz, are insufficient to warrant the grant.

As a result of GPF’s protest, state representative Dwight Evans, a Democrat from Philadelphia, urged the state House Appropriations committee to table the grant proposal, which was to come up today as part of a capital budget bill.

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