Vote No, Keep Dallas Open for Business

Today Fun Factory Events’ staff headed down to Gilley’s in Dallas to rally with many others from the Metroplex in showing their support for the Convention Center Hotel and to encourage people to Vote No on Propositions 1 and 2.

You might have heard a lot lately about Propositions 1 and 2 and also about the Convention Center Hotel. In fact, there has been quite a bit of talk about how the Convention Center Hotel would be bad for Dallas and how the process of building it would be detrimental to taxpayers. However, this not the case and we believe that it is vitally important for the health and growth of Dallas for the Convention Center Hotel to be built and for Propositions 1 and 2 to be defeated.

Today let's talk about a couple of reasons why Fun Factory Events supports the Convention Center Hotel. The most important reason is because it will bring in more convention business. More convention business means good things for a lot of people in many different industries because a convention comes to town it brings with it 1,000 to 30,000 or more people.

Take a minute and think about all of the things you do when you go visit another city...stay in a hotel, rent a car, eat out, see the sites.

Now think about how many thousands of people each convention would bring and how all of those people would be doing those very things right here in our wonderful city! The money they spend will bring job opportunities for thousands of Dallas residents as well as more tax revenue to go toward services for the citizens of Dallas. That's A LOT of money that is currently going to other cities.

Unfortunately, right now Dallas is missing out on some of the biggest and best conventions (the kind that would bring 20,000-50,000 people). These conventions are staying away because we do not have a Convention Center Hotel. Downtown Dallas is missing out on some of the overflow advantages these types of conventions bring such as jobs in multiple sectors plus other area hotels benefit since the Convention Center Hotel wouldn't be able to house all of the convention goers. In fact, when the new convention center hotel in Denver was built it spurred all kinds of development, including four privately built hotels! Think of all of the jobs that came with those 4 new hotels!

We could go on and on about the wonderful things a Convention Center Hotel would do for Dallas but we'll keep it short and sweet. Convention Center Hotel = A Very Good Thing for Dallas!

Please remember on May 9th to Vote No on Propositions 1 and 2 - Dallas will thank you for it!