City Hall For Sale?
Word on the street is that Mayor Greg Ballard isn’t just looking at selling off tiny public parks for a one-time infusion of cash.
Everything is on the table, including the potential sale of City Hall.
Yeah, you heard me right. City Hall.
The Mayor who once said he’d bring government back to the people is now thinking about selling whatever he can to the highest bidder. That includes parks of all sizes, city land, city services and the very building that houses our municipal government.
Who wins in all this? Ballard’s ethically questionable real estate broker, John Bales, and all the other powerful people involved in any future real estate transactions.
Who loses? Us. Oh, and the dude who stuck the “Everything Must Go!” sign on our government.
Heck, even Mitch Daniels knew better than to put the Statehouse on the hypothetical auction block.
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This guy is getting to me. He has virtually no experience and comes in wanting to gut Indianapolis of everything that makes it beautiful. Parks and Arts are two things I am not willing to see left out of this city.
Before City Hall goes on the auction block, we’re first trying to cover the budget shortfall by selling highly collectible signed and numbered lithographs of me. Three separate prints will be available: me in formal Marine Corps dress, me playing cricket with underprivileged children, and me in an heroic pose over the defeated corpse of Bart Peterson. There will be a limited print run of 250,000 copies, with a suggested retail price of $675 each. This will cover the entire $154 million loan, plus production costs of the prints and my royalties.
And don’t forget to buy the forthcoming second edition of THE BALLARD RULES this November!
Gee, Mr. B - I was truly hoping for that print of you having dinner in IndyChinaTown - or at least in front of that giant Chinese takeaway box on the bridge in White River Park.