Support continues for Keystone Expo Center
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YORK - Two Democratic
gubernatorial condidates-
Lieutenant Governor Ernest
P. Kline and Robert P.
Casey-and Republican
Candidates Bob Butera,
Henry G. Hager and Richard
L. Thornburgh have
declared their positions on
step-by-step development of
a new Keystone Exposition
Center for the benefit of all
the people in the Com
monwealth, according to Dr.
Norman F. Reber, editor
emeritus of Pennsylvania
Farmer magazine and
chairman of the Keystone
Exposition Center Com
mittee, a spearhead action
group representing 18 state
.organizations pushing to put
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Pennsylvania in the
forefront again through
tourism as the exhibit center
of the Northeast, a position it
has lost from ten years of
delay, deterioration and
destruction.
The May 16 primary
candidates for their
respective party tickets
gave their views in response
to a letter by Chairman
Reber in which he cited
updated estimates based on
a professional state
authorized study done about
ten years ago. It revealed a
new center would generate a
cash flow of an annual
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$13,000,000 more than was
actually generated by the old
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center, known as the farm
Show Complex, at the time
the study was made.
Building past and future
inflation factors into the
latter figure, Dr. Reber
estimates the net increase in
cash flow from a new center
over the present one could
readily exceed an annual
$25,000,000. Since the study
indicated that 80 per cent of
the total cash flow was the
result of tourism from out of
state, this would mean an
annual $20,000,000 stimulant
to the sluggish economy of
the Commonwealth and
bring into its treasury
stepped-up sales and income
tax revenue in much greater
amounts than would be
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phased development of a
new center, Reber stated.
In contrast to this bright
outlook from a new center,
Reber cited the gloomy
outlook of the old center, the
mountainous maintenance
costs on deteriorating and
flood-ravaged buildings with
shrunken exhibit space due
to walls built to meet fire
safety regulations. The
proposed new $3-milhon
dollar supplementary
building will only make up
for the lost space and do
nothing to satisfy the long
waiting list of exhibitors and
it will also be located m the
flood plain, Reber said.
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supplementary building as a
temporary measure, the
Lieutenant Governor has
come out flatly for a new
Keystone Exposition Center
as an investment in the
future of Pennsylvania to
bring more jobs, business
and revenues into the state.
In noting that the present
Farm Show Complex has
served us well, he stated a
modem facility was urgently
needed to supply more space
to present exhibitors and to
take care of a waiting list of
over 200 groups who would
use a new and expanded
center.
“The exposition and
convention business is
a lucrative market. If
Pennsylvania does not make
an effort to accommodate
groups who want to have
their events here, we stand
to suffer a substantial
economic loss,” Kline said.
“Cities and states across the
country are building new
and modem convention and
exhibition facilities. Penn
sylvania must stay com
petitive with them,” he
added. Kline pointed out a
new facility on state-owned,
flood-free ground near the
present complex would be
the least expensive to
develop in a phased program
which would use the old
facilities along with the new.
“Both the need and the
financial return for the
proposed Keystone
Exhibition Center have been
established. We now need
leadership to turn these
plans into reality,” the
Lieutenant Governor said.
In his letter to the chair
man, Robert P. Casey, a
leading contender for the
Democratic nomination,
while conceding the im
portance of a new facility for
the state, had this to say:
“I recognize the im
portance of a facility
capable of attracting trade
shows and other events to
the Commonwealth, but
believe that the fiscal
realities confronting the
Commonwealth dictate, at
least in the near term,
another course of action ”
Bob Butera responded to
the chairman’s letter this
way; “As governor of
Pennsylvania, I would en
courage the project and
would support the plan if it
can be shown that it would be
self-sustaining. Its ac
deptance by the general
public would also hinge on
the ability of the complex to
pay for itself.”
Butera further stated “the
chairman’s detailed ex-
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planation of the potential
impact on the economy of
the Harrisburg area and the
state was well documented
and obviously the result of
careful and considerable
research.”
Henry G. Hager stated
flatly that the aging flood
prone complex has not kept
pace with the requirements
of today’s demands.
“Each year,” he said,
“Pennsylvania losses many
potential activities to other
states with newer, larger
and better equipped
facilities. A new Keystone
Exposition Center in our
capital city would meet the
demands and needs now
being satisfied elsewhere.”
“The time is past due for
Pennsylvania to make a far
sighted capital investment in
its future. A long-term
financing plan is essential if
the complex is to be built and
operated with pubhc funds.
Although a new facility
would generate thousands of
dollars in additional
revenues for the Com
monwealth’s economy, it
should be constructed during
a phased development
program over a period of
years in order to lessen the
initial capital outlay and
debt funding requirements;
it must be to a large degree
self-sustaining by helping to
defray maintenance and
self-liquidating debt costs.”
Richard L. Thornburgh
enthusiastically endorsed a
new Keystone Exposition
Center in these words:
“As a candidate for
governor, my number one
priority for Pennsylvania, is
to get our economy on its feet
again. This undertaking, as I
see it, must involve state
government in ways
necessary to create a
positive climate for jobs.
“With this objective in
mind, a Keystone Exposition
Center seems to make good
sense. It would add to our
growing tourist industry and
provide a good setting for
trade shows for a variety of
Pennsylvania businesses. I
am especially pleased that it
would provide a showcase
for our agricultural in
dustry.”
Only one Democratic
contender, Peter Flaherty,
and one Republican, Arlen
Specter, remain to be heard
from in the effort by the
KEEC to clarify the
positions of the candidates
on a new Expo before the
May 16 primary.
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