Is the Coliseum failing?

By:  Diane Benjamin The information below is posted on the City of Bloomington website at:  http://www.cityblm.org/index.aspx?page=21&parent=6548 The Coliseum is on a fiscal year – May 1 to April 30th of each year. This is the actual income reported for the second Quarter for each year and the year to date income. 2nd Quarter     […]

The Coliseum mis-management

by:  Diane Benjamin Look at the schedules events on the Coliseum website:  http://www.uscellularcoliseum.com/calendar-of-events/ Nothing is scheduled that will make money in October.  Go back to January 2014.  There have been few if any big money events all year.  Thunder Hockey has started with a dismal number of paying fans.  There is no football, the new […]

What the Pantagraph said in 2004

by:  Diane Benjamin I found this while looking for something else.  Before the Coliseum opened, an editorial in the Pantagraph questioned why Coliseum management wasn’t put out for bid.  They even called the Council action “a bad practice”.  I’ve called for cancelling the current contract and putting it out for bid.   CIAM has been […]