Adios, Inventors!

Is it just me or are there TONS of questions left around by the departure of the Inventors Hall of Fame from what we used to call Inventure Place?

We spent plenty of taxpayer money on what turns out 13 years later to be such a white elephant; when Akron schools move their programs in the Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum likely becomes, at $38 million dollars to build, the most expensive public school building in the City. No more Central Hower high school a couple blocks to the east but we have a downtown City school campus -- again.

If this type of thing happened to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum (another Hall critics called a costly mistake at $90 million worth) there would be snickers and screaming; if Canton's Pro Football Hall of Fame closed it's doors there would be tears and outrage. Even if the Warther Museum shuttered in Dover there would be sadness and headlines, but here in Akron the demise of our spot on the "Hall of Fame Highway" merits a below-the-fold mention in the Beacon Journal, on the local section. History buried.

I've got more to add to this later today...