Author: Howard Darko

Key strategies
1st – evidence does not explain itself
– Show your reader how and why your proof is relevant to your argument
– – explain how a particular piece of evidence helps make your case to an audience
2nd – direct link between your evidence and your conclusion that is definitive, and based on caused-effect
3rd – concessions – admitting that afternative viewpoint exist (serves to strengthen your own argument

3. Was now truly the right time for the PAEC? While no one can argue with the aesthetily pleasing structure sitting where the old Toys R Us building is , that on a clear day has one of the best views of t X; some in cluding myself may question the timing and price.

We, as citicezens have been aschere by a handpicked Blue Ribbon Panel that the city need and could afoud the PAEC, but I uonder if the 5 year build or else pay requirement attached to the Government loan to buy the old Toys R Us property had any influence on the speed of the decision to move forward. Then there is the capital cost of the project.

While some, may say the $34,000.000 capital cost for the PAEC project is an investment in building a strong downtown core for the City of Fedeal Way; I would like to remind them of some of the City of Federal Ways other “downtown” projects. Let us start with the “Crystle Place” a multistory located on the site of the old AMC north movie theather, Ooops! Im sorry, after years of being told the deal was almost signed it simply didn’t happen – apparently the ginancal backers did not find downtown Federal Way a good investment. In order to capitalize on the inical investment to purchase the property, the city, in 20xx built Downpark I, at a cost of $xx. Agter only being opened for xx months the city government made the fiscal responsible decision to tair up the xx month old park and replace it with, wait for it, you quessed it, a band new park. The new downtown park came in under budget at @xx (true cost is not known to the large amount of labor that was provided by the park dept.) This final cost brings the total downtown park cost (minus lost property tax revenue) to $xx. Now has take a look at one more downtown project that the Federal Way tax payers have forcable invested in.

That’s say hypateticly you wanted to buy sometime, and that said something has had the same sales price for more then a year, no. three years. So you go to buy the said item only to be told by the salesperson – we will call them xx – that there is now another interested party and that the sales price – that has not moved in 3 years is now $xx? A xx% increase! Not sure about you, but any fiscally responsible I know would walk away from the deal. So what does the City of Federal Way do, they get the price lowed by x% and tell everyone they saved us $300K. That is ow the city and tax payers became the owner of another run down building. (I will add the city did just sell a piece of the Target to x to build another hotel – which will take business and jobs from the current hotels – on an up note the low paying jobs created at the new hotel count against the new job creation requirements that are part of the NMTC and CBDG funding deals used to build the PAC. But I get a head of myself, we will look at the PAEC fund next.