Given her San Antonio track record, Sculley's enthusiasm for a $1.2 billion-plus convention center expansion in Austin isn't surprising — it's just par for the course. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX Austin Phoenix ConventionCenters Texas
Sculley's enthusiasm for big downtown projects, and perhaps her brutal honesty as well, are rooted in a long personal history.readers who wonder whatever became of former San Antonio City Manager Sheryl Sculley, she appears to be pleasantly ensconced in Austin, offering advice.
For Sculley the promise of a far bigger convention center would go well beyond just more conventions and visitors, according to the report. During the session, she stressed the"public-private partnership" component of the expansion and its potential for substantial new private development downtown. Sculley did much of the pitching to the Arizona Legislature herself, armed with a 2002 presentation that stressed"There is No Status Quo!" At stake were"$32 million in annual state tax revenues" and"12,000 jobs," according to her presentation. It proved enough to get the state government to commit $300 million to the project.
Sheraton-branded hotel itself with a city bond issue. Clearly, under Sculley's guidance, the city was poised to emerge as the next great convention destination in the country.A final study from Ernst & Young in 2003 forecast that the grand new center would welcome 376,861 annual convention delegates, up from the 166,000 of 1996 and 193,000 in 1997. But the count of convention attendees was just 156,000 in fiscal 2011 and 233,000 the next year.
The Phoenix experience did little to reshape public policy in San Antonio after Sculley's arrival as city manager in 2005.
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