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County adopts event-center financing ordinance to back proposed indoor youth sports facility
Summary
Kalamazoo County commissioners voted unanimously April 1 to adopt an ordinance establishing an event-center financing program and a 4% hotel-assessment district to support a proposed indoor youth sports facility.
Kalamazoo County commissioners voted unanimously April 1 to adopt an ordinance establishing an event-center financing program and assessment district, clearing a key legal hurdle for a proposed indoor youth sports facility.
Supporters told the board during a public hearing that the facility would generate visitor spending and hotel room nights that they said will outweigh the cost to visitors from the new 4% assessment. Dave Morgan, CEO of the YMCA of Greater Kalamazoo, said the facility would expand youth access to athletics and also “teach teamwork, discipline, and resilience.” Rich McDonald, chief operating officer of the Hinman Company, told commissioners the facility is…
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