Somewhere on this blog I had a running total going for the Hostess House debacle. It’s hard to keep track of because they keep changing things. Once the cost ballooned out of control (as I predicted it would), they had to “revise the scope.” That means they had to take out all of their ridiculous wish items when the bids came in around $3 MILLION dollars.
Remember, back in October of 2019 when they took over the building, they informed us it would need some “minor repairs”:
Then those “minor repairs” turned into a $200,000 upgrade:
Of course, once nitwits like Cathy Kuehne got ahold of it, costs exploded to $3 million. Who cares?? It’s only HOT money (hotel occupancy tax) – not REAL money.
Well, math finally brought them back to reality, as it always does. Now they have to go back and take out all their wish list stuff. Those changes are gonna cost them.
The cost of checking their greed and revising scope? It’s $38,000, to be exact.
But hey – who gives a shit about $38,000? That’s not even real money. The City wasted more than that ripping concrete out of the industrial park so that Martin’s Rod could pretend they were going to put an RV and boat storage business there!
Just remember Cathy Kuehne’s motto when it comes to projects like this: “we should do it even if it costs a little more.”