Loudest Backers of Tax-Funded Arena Get Big Contracts
Nice compensation for their efforts
LINCOLN — Some Lincoln business leaders who were among the biggest backers of the city's plan to build a $346 million basketball venue downtown are getting some big contracts to help build the arena and related development.
Perhaps the most visible cheerleader for the project — the man who led the drive to get Lincoln voters to approve the biggest public works project in the city's history in 2010 — was Dick Campbell. He chaired a mayoral task force that studied the arena and talked to more than 100 groups about the merits of the project.
Now his landscaping company has landed a $620,927 landscaping contract and is bidding to do streetscape work in the former rail yard being developed west of the Haymarket and south of the rising arena.
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Wish I could remember where, but I remember reading regarding the Superdome that the only thing that mattered was who carried the insurance contract; all else was commentary.
Sounds likely; the building contract ends and the insurance keeps growing.