Maybe Wejo should move back to Ft. Worth as this is right nearby in Crowley. Anyone know where they get the money for this? Wikipedia says Crowley has a population of roughly 20,000. So if it costs $150 million that would come out to $7,500 per resident.
Rojo, I'm glad you're covering this topic, but this news old by now. Please be on top of this because it's a big deal for tx!!! Hopefully they will add an indoor season.
It's not a "track and field complex". A direct quote from the very short article:
"The facility will host regional and state-level track meets, wrestling, volleyball and basketball tournaments, and even concerts, thanks to its 3,500-seat indoor arena."
Also, Crowley is in Tarrant county which has a population of over 2 million people. Tarrant county is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex which has a population of over 8 million people.
One would think maybe a track powerhouse school would shell out millions to build such a complex, but no, Crowley’s sole qualifier for the TX state championships was a 4x4 team that finished 2nd to last.
As a former Texas resident this doesn’t surprise me at all. Texas School districts are run like the mafia and the money thrown around is crazy. It would make a great documentary series.
Why does a school district need an indoor track when that’s not a high school sport in Texas? Who’s building it and how are they connected? This is a district with 2-3 high schools!
Meanwhile teacher pay is down, academic standards are falling state wide, Gov Abbott is holding billions of public school money hostage until he gets his tax payer funded private schools in place.
Can someone explain to me why they're building indoors tracks in deserts? Maybe instead of building worthless facilities, they should invest in their horrible public transportation system.
DALLAS – A bill advancing through the Texas legislature threatens to dismantle the public transportation system in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Dallas Area Rapid Transit said yesterday. “This bill isn’t a tweak to funding...
Maybe Wejo should move back to Ft. Worth as this is right nearby in Crowley. Anyone know where they get the money for this? Wikipedia says Crowley has a population of roughly 20,000. So if it costs $150 million that would come out to $7,500 per resident.
Maybe Wejo should move back to Ft. Worth as this is right nearby in Crowley. Anyone know where they get the money for this? Wikipedia says Crowley has a population of roughly 20,000. So if it costs $150 million that would come out to $7,500 per resident.
Voters approved a ~$95 million bond in 2023. Bonds are classified as I&S (interest and sinking), versus the M&O funds that cover maintenance and operations (salaries, etc.). Read up on school bonds for more info.
As a former Texas resident this doesn’t surprise me at all. Texas School districts are run like the mafia and the money thrown around is crazy. It would make a great documentary series.
Why does a school district need an indoor track when that’s not a high school sport in Texas? Who’s building it and how are they connected? This is a district with 2-3 high schools!
Meanwhile teacher pay is down, academic standards are falling state wide, Gov Abbott is holding billions of public school money hostage until he gets his tax payer funded private schools in place.
Also, it’s Texas. You can practice outside.
They're probably intending to bid on high school and college (conference) championship meets. Indoor venue in a location that expects zero winter weather travel impacts.
This video shows the state of the art $51M Crowley district football stadium which opened in 2022. The North Crowley HS football team went 16-0 and are the current 6A state champs.
The students in the district are 50% black, 32% Hispanic, 9% white. North Crowley HS is in Fort Worth as are most of the students in the district.
Not sure a building shaped like a giant airfoil is a bad good idea in a place prone to tornados. A big F5 could move the entire facility to the next county.
Can someone explain to me why they're building indoors tracks in deserts? Maybe instead of building worthless facilities, they should invest in their horrible public transportation system.
Fort Worth is not a desert it is in a humid climate. Gets 3x the rain that LA gets each year.. the other comparison is that Dart is the second largest light rain system in the US behind LA...
That being said I think the dart could be a lot better... It also doesn't serve fort worth (that's the TRE).
An indoor track would make a lot of money in DFW. The closest ones are 3+ hours away. You have the 4th largest and fastest growing area in the nation. SMU promised one a while ago but that seems dead. But they'd make a killing on either college or high school meets.
Maybe Wejo should move back to Ft. Worth as this is right nearby in Crowley. Anyone know where they get the money for this? Wikipedia says Crowley has a population of roughly 20,000. So if it costs $150 million that would come out to $7,500 per resident.
I am a Texan, All American at Texas. Olympic Trials finalist in 1992. Obviously I am a fan.
That said, I was a teacher and coach for nearly 30 years in addition to military service and two deployments. Why do I say all this?
Our federal deficit is $36T with annual interest payments (just interest) at $1T per year. Almost the same as the DOD budget. Let that sink in...
Debt will build this and it's a problem at the national and state level. Texas has a budget surplus but the oil sector is slowling production and the Golden Goose won't be here forever. Furthermore, POS Abbott and his sicophants gave a tax break for the wealthy if you read between the lines on the private school vouchers when the charter schools were doing a good job of creating competition. It's a boondoggle.
Athletics has a role in the educational process but it has become warped. Our kids now known neither the soft skills not the hard skills and think about how that money could go towards fixing that else we will fall further behind our competition. It is why I can no longer teach and while having a sports complex like this is super cool, from the perspective of national security, productivity by preparing kids for the workforce and having an 8th grader be able to do Algebra with both pencil and paper and technology is far more important so in my humble opinion, this is a poor decision.
This state and country are led by poor decision makers and I will leave it at that.
