Knoxville Convention Center: can we have $1.3M?

2006-2011, it will have cost Knoxville over $8M. Each year it runs a $1.35~ million deficit. Only in government can you say “we were not built to make money” as justification.

The Knoxville Convention Center will operate with a deficit of $1.3 million in the coming fiscal year, although convention officials stress the facility was not built to make money.

“We operate at a deficit,” said Mary Stephens-Bogert, convention center general manager. “We were not built to make money.”

via KnoxNews  Convention Center to operate with $1.3M deficit.