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WEDNESDAY,SEPTEMBER 29 THIS WEEK AT CMC The Reincarnation of Cooper Stadium: Life after the Clippers SEPTEMBER 22 Countless development Passion and Prejudice projects come under attack for countless reasons. Some are Threaten Freedom: obvious – few people recruit Religious Reality in America jails, power plants, landfills, or freeways to be built this their Panelists: Richard Wing, Senior Minister, First Community backyards. Church; Mark Belletini, Senior Minister First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus; Fazeel Kahn, Editor of Islamic Objections to some Review and Secretary, Lahore Ahmadiyya Islamic Society. developments might not be Moderator: Mike Thompson, News Director, WOSU Public Media. quite so obvious or clear cut. The reincarnation of Cooper Bill John O’Grady, Giorgio Rizzoni, Stefanie Coe, Moderator With support from Stadium might fall in this Schottenstein, Franklin County Director, Center Southwest Area Cleve Ricksecker, category. Principal, Arshot Commissioner for Automotive Commission Executive Director, Investments Research at OSU Capital Crossroads In partnership with BREAD Owned by Franklin County, and Discovery SIDs the 1931 circa Cooper Stadium became available when tenant Previews of Upcoming CMC Events the committed to its new home in All CMC forums are held at the Athletic Club of Columbus, Huntington Park. Arshot 136 East Broad Street unless otherwise noted. Investments took option to Registration begins at 11:30AM, with lunch served buy the 46-acre site from promptly at noon and closing at 1:15PM. Franklin County for $3.3 million. SEPTEMBER 29 Since that time, rumors The Reincarnation of Cooper Stadium: have swirled around a proposed auto race track, a Life after the Clippers park, hotel, an automotive Bill Schottenstein, Principal, Arshot Investments; John O’Grady, Franklin research center. Neighbors as County Commissioner; Giorgio Rizzoni, Director, Center for Automotive far as downtown are Research at OSU; Stefanie Coe, Southwest Area Commission. concerned about the noise, Moderator Cleve Ricksecker, Executive Director, Capital Crossroads and while a majority of the folks in Discovery SIDs the immediate neighborhood in Franklinton apparently are in favor of it, because of the OCTOBER 6 prospect of badly-needed jobs. Barbara Poppe, Executive Director, U.S. Officially, the developer Interagency Council on Homelessness says the site would include a mechanic’s school, an auto- Barbara Poppe has more than 25 years of non-profit technology center, a hotel and Photo courtesy Glavan Imageworks. experience working on homelessness with housing-related a conference center, with 16 – organizations. She was appointed to serve as executive This is an artist's rendering of the proposed development of the Cooper Stadium site as a half-mile auto-racing director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness 20 races each year and sound track.The site would include a mechanic's school, an auto-technology center, a hotel and a conference center. in October 2009. barriers of 35-feet high. Poppe served as executive director of the Columbus-based Just what are the plans and Community Shelter Board from October 1995 to who will be affected and how? November 2009. Barbara Who’s in favor of this plan and what does and doesn’t it include? neighborhood and the entire community? Poppe Sponsored by Porter,Wright, Morris & Arthur Who is opposed to it and why? The panel representing the developer, the owner, one How is well-known NASCAR race car driver Jeff Gordon proposed component of the plan and one neighborhood discuss involved and what does that mean for the area, the project, the the plans. CMC and the Farm Bureau Federation present The Political Season RECAP - SEPTEMBER 15 With support from The Jeffrey Company and AT&T Confirmed to date: Ohio’s Budget: Bubblegum & Duct Tape Debates/Discussions begin at 8:30 p.m. at WOSI at COSI Matt Yuskevich, Chair, Ohio Budget Advisory Task Force; John There is no admission fee, but reservations through CMC are required. Begala, Executive Director, Center for Community Solutions; In Partnership with WOSU Public Media Gene Krebs, Senior Director of Government Affairs and Policy, Greater Ohio; Moderator, Jim Heath, Anchor ONN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 In partnership with the Ohio Society of CPAs 15th District Mary Jo Kilroy Steve Stivers

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