Jax contacted about hosting 2024 summer olympics

[fsujax]

Yes. Can we just keep the lights on? and mow the right-of-way. that's all i ask for.

[I-10east]

They should just keep putting the Olympics in ultra-violent cities. They already got Rio for 2016; Keep the theme going with Islamabad, and Chicago to follow up for 2020, and 2024 respectively.

[tufsu1]

I believe Istanbul is a front-runner for 2020

[Wacca Pilatka]

I believe Istanbul is a front-runner for 2020

Previously, the front-runner was Constantinople.  Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinopole.

[Ocklawaha]

Thanks Ock. That's very interesting. I guess World's Fairs used to be a big deal but probably don't necessarily have the same sort of draw they once had. But they probably inspire investment and redevelopment similar to the way the Olympics do for host cities, but on a smaller scale. And with that Live-Work-Play model, it sounds a bit similar to the idea of re-tooling the Olympic villages and areas and using them for housing, like they do in some cities.

The problems encountered in Knoxville and New Orleans were not reflective of the product, as much as they both had horrible financing, and New Orleans true to form, didn't even have all of the pavilions open when the fair started. Likewise the Los Angeles Olympics lost their butt's in similar blotching of previous successes.

Could a Jacksonville 'One Spark Expo' in say, 2026 be a success? Draw a line from Orlando, Tampa or Miami Beach to anywhere in the Northeast Corridor and you'll see that we have a marketing tool that no other fair in recent decades has had. The attendance at the last World Expo was 748,300 daily or 70.45 million total visitors. This blew away the previous Osaka Expo, as the record holder. That event drew 64.21 million visitors.

[tufsu1]

I believe Istanbul is a front-runner for 2020

Previously, the front-runner was Constantinople.  Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinopole.