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The cost of finding a light garden may be higher than you think.
Q Why do I have to pay $ 20 for a ticket to a light garden show? The Redding City Council has voted to change $ 250,000 in transit tax revenue in each of the attractions for the first two years.
D Turtle Bay spokeswoman Sgt. For example, Tertil Bay had to bring electricity to the park to attract gardeners.
Under the terms of the agreement, the city has set aside $ 500,000 in hotel taxes for a $ 800,000 attraction. The council has voted to transfer $ 250,000 to the Light Garden in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 budget years.
According to McGaha, the town of Redding has been working to become a self-supporting entity since Redding City stopped subsidizing the park years ago, and the Garden of Light is helping the park do so. He said the park was earning about $ 800,000 a year from the city.
“Tertul Bay is a private, non-profit organization that pays admission to the museum and all fundraising events, and the financial support from the city was not intended to go to the entrance fee (Paradise of Light).”
“I know there are a lot of questions about light garden finance. All I can say is that it costs a lot of money,” McGuha said. Costs on other lighting fixtures across the country.
Explaining the 2020 Garden to the Council last March, Tul Bay Board Chairman Randall Hempling was asked if there would be a future revenue demand for the city: “Our goal is never to go back and ask for anything.
Light Paradise also received $ 35,000 from the Redding Chamber of Commerce for Urban Identification Project. Payment for design work by frame design. The Florida-based topology company has worked with Atlanta Botanical Park, Balboa Park and Oakland Zoo.
“We are very pleased with the success of Light Garden and we are very proud to have contributed to that community experience,” said Jack Mangas, president of the Redding Chamber of Commerce.
And he succeeded.
The attraction earned $ 1.04 million from ticket sales and gift items last year. Hempling He told the council in March that 76,700 tickets had been sold in 2020.
This year, Lightning Paradise has sold 43,000 tickets since September 1, according to Makagaha. He added that it aims to sell 75,000 tickets this year. On the first weekend, some 6,000 people attended the light show.
Light Garden will last until December 31st. Open Monday through Sunday, closed Monday, Tuesday and Christmas.
For ticket prices and availability, go to www.reddinggardenoflights.org.
Michelle Chandler contributed to this answer.
What is the value of the former artistic element and color building
Q I noticed some dirty work being done on the now-defunct Art Market body and paint drive, what is going on there?
D After many, many years of business, the artistic body and paint are closed.
In Reading, 553 N. Market St. The building above, is on the market. They are listing the real estate Jennifer Park building, claiming the asking price is $ 495,000.
And this building has some history.
He said the park was originally built as a barn for dairy farming.
It was the home of car dealer Elmer W. Juniors, and in this paper he recounts the memories of former record-breaking photographer Tom Dunlap in 2010 when his parents bought a new 1955 Pontiac Star four-door sedan from Juncans’ Miracle Mile.
“In my eighth grade, it was a car. Surprisingly, the turquoise blue and white, with radios, latex foam seats, white-walled tires, sun visor, V-8 engine and hydraulic transmission. My mother was overjoyed when that car marked the end of the handcarts and gear shifts in our family cars, ”wrote Dunlap.
Junkans sold its distribution in 1961 after 25 years of business, according to Dunlap.
Parkke said the building had been damaged twice, so he was interested. But there is still no agreement.
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