What/How Much Would It Take to Do This? (Indoor XC)

[AG]

Finding a building would be difficult but not impossible. What we have found that seems to be a killer is the property tax bill. The soon to be empty Menards building in Davenport at 50,000 sq. ft. has a $220,000 annual property tax obligation. Add in a mortgage, utility's ext... Hard to do.

[Ken]

Doing it official style, very difficult; I'd even say Trek is having a tough time making it work in Milwaukee... I'm no businessman but one of the big expenses has got to give (mortgage, insurance, taxes, etc.) just to break even.

Once upon a time we had a clandestine invite only bldg in CR, it was great. Here's a vid in its infancy...


And some legacy posts on the topic:
http://forum.mtbiowa.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=523
http://forum.mtbiowa.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=633

It no longer exists, in fact the bldg has been demolished along with many others post 2008 flood. Some of the obstacles have been recycled to local trails, others...


This is in Iowa City...