Score the ball
Stunning generosity, the 35 million dollar gift from Paul Tudor Jones. Serious seed money for the new John Paul Jones arena in Charlottesville. It is a fabulous facility. Admirable as well that young Jones chose to honor his dad with the naming request.
My only wish is that someday, there will be a UVA graduate who is similarly inspired by the Library.
That would be sweet. A state of the art library.
Score the ball indeed.
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posted by emory at 9:01 AM
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Yeah, the Library. Seems like it's so easy to cough up the bucks for a sports facility just about anywhere (we thankfully killed the plans for a big one in Manhattan, and still fighting the the proposed Atlantic Yards arena/Manhattan-annes-across-the-river project tooth and nail), but try and get anything built without an arena as a carrot/fig leaf, and all you get are barely stifled yawns.
- Barrett
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