What's the buzz?

Here's a sampling of postings from our message board about the rising cost of the proposed art museum in downtown Roanoke. To read more, or add your own, go online at roanoke.com

waurikakid

That thing looks like it needs to be in the Twilight Zone. I can't wait until some kids take some loose bricks from Victory Stadium and put them thru all the glass panels in that thing and run up the cost to $100 million. We have some great thinkers here in Roanoke! I just wish we had some down to earth intelligence surfacing somewhere at least, once in a blue moon.

dontmesswithseth

Another prime example of Roanoke leaders totally missing the mark. This thing is hideous and out of place, and does nothing to reflect the rich archetectural [sic] history of Roanoke.

It seems like there's a constant push to prove how cool we are by building cliche buildings or institutung predictable programs rather than building off the unigue history of the city. I'm all for supporting art, but I don't believe a 60 million dollar building is the way to do it. If they can find the money for that, why can't they find the money for arts programs in schools? Scale back, build something reasonable and appropriate for the city, and start thinking people up, not top down.

Mtpleasant

$60 MILLION dollars?!?!? All the rest of the areas charitable orgs are in a hurt locker (like Explore Park), and the giant sucking sound you hear is headed toward the Art Museum's building site. Why not save money on a more modest building design and spend the money on actual ART??

JackValley

Small town thinking. Open your minds. Is it any wonder our city is going backwards and our youth are leaving in droves. How embarrassing.

Anything proposed in Roanoke, no matter how sound the merits, is opposed. The paper referenced the "CAVE" mentality- citizens against virtually everything. It's exhausting and deflating.

As for the art museum on [Mill Mountain]- that's not the issue. I do salute [Tom] Brock for having the guts to bring up a bold idea.

Thankfully, our founding fathers we bold and courageous, our we would still be British citizens.

For all the critics...what do you propose for moving the valley forward? Do tell...