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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer
Two days to go so one can always hope, but this is looking like yet another failure of "municipal Ottawa". Disappointing when you consider what much smaller cities have been able to achieve in terms of cultural facilities. Oh well, there's always the Little Theatre.
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Originally Posted by ac888yow
The community has spoken (with deafening silence) about this concert hall. It's time to pull the city funding, put that money to use elsewhere, and either go back to the drawing board on this project (in terms of finding an anchor tenant) or proceed with just the mixed use commercial/residential components.
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It may have been a failure by "municipal Ottawa" to be more proactive in helping the Chamber Music Society find a large corporate sponsor (although I don't know that for sure). It certainly isn't a failure by the community. The deafening silence claim is not true. I personally know of several people that have pledged $1,000 and $2,000 toward this. I sent a pledge myself. My wife and I have attended chamber concerts packed with people and there has ALWAYS been an organized presentation by someone from the Concert Hall team to canvass for donations, urge people to write to councillors, give updates, etc.
The bottom line here is that unfortunately it looks as though the corporate sponsorship hasn't been secured. I wonder if they were close to, as we heard last fall, and just ran out of time to navigate corporate red tape, or if they were still "fishing" - which, this late in the game, and with the feds showing enough faith in the project to chip in their bit, I think they were further along.
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