Main St Project.

Yep I agree with you on this one. The stadium will take forever, and then it probably won't be done correctly. Anyone remember the Turnbull Library on STT? SMH on that one, still.

We should place bets of which one took longer, the Christiansted Bypass or the Statium when it's ever finished.

Yes, the cruise ship industry will surely be excited about the new stadium on STX! Wonder who'll get indicted when that or Main Street is ever done?
I, for one, didn't realize how BADLY STX needs a stadium.

The VI should get into the ceremonial shovel business. Dozens for every project. Hell they have had another one when they restarted Bridge to Nowhere project because elections soon come. Tip Top, the contractor on main st project, is in over their heads and questions were raised at time of bidding on their abilities. The water taxi idea is long overdue and will help but we are years from waterfront project based on time of main st project. Part of this lies with private sector too, shop faces are terrible on main st. The other issue is we haven't adapted. People have different wants now. It isn't just jewelry, rum punch and a beach. People want ecological, cultural and historical tours.

The VI should get into the ceremonial shovel business. Dozens for every project. Hell they have had another one when they restarted Bridge to Nowhere project because elections soon come. Tip Top, the contractor on main st project, is in over their heads and questions were raised at time of bidding on their abilities. The water taxi idea is long overdue and will help but we are years from waterfront project based on time of main st project. Part of this lies with private sector too, shop faces are terrible on main st. The other issue is we haven't adapted. People have different wants now. It isn't just jewelry, rum punch and a beach. People want ecological, cultural and historical tours.

Yes, did you read the article in the VI Consortium regarding the cruise industry going down the tubes? Whatever it is they now want, be it ecological, cultural, or historical tours or whatever, apparently we haven't got it, or not enough. We certainly have the diving though, they can't complain about that, at least not on STX.

It's sad that we have such beauty here and that it remains on the back burner when it's our bread and butter.

Downtown on both STT and STX could definitely use beautification and revitalization.

Our islands look like a trash dump compared to other islands.
Then there's the fact that many of our beaches, including popular tourist beaches, are consistently are tested and found to have high levels of enterococci bacteria.

Fix the basics, (infractructure) first!

Infrastructure projects are costly. We are broke. Most beaches remain safe after rains, Water bay, Cruz bay always unsafe. Garbage is everywhere. Last time on Mackinac Island, whose only revenue is tourism, The hillsides were littered in plastic snd paper products. I had climbed a railing to get a picture and ended up sliding down the hill (about 500 ft) to beach. Also horses shit on the streets there. Just being legalized drugs and prostitution already.

They fired the contractor. I'm sure it will be back on schedule in no time

The same contractor that did such a quick and efficient job on Ft. Christian, I believe...

Seems they've been working on the stadium every day for two weeks. Even saw them working Saturday. Making serious progress, it seems.

They haven't even secured all the land for stadium. Are going down eminent domain route.

Tip Top, the contractor on main st project, is in over their heads and questions were raised at time of bidding on their abilities

They built the travesty of my new office building... 22 million dollars for two structures and I can't think of a single major system that didn't fail with in the first 2 years (to include major plumbing issues, water with high enough copper levels that the drinking fountains have warnings on them.. AC that never seems to work for longer than a month or two, generator switchover that fails, Full room UPS that N E V E R worked (AC units in our main telecom room that instead of being set up to fail over, both run full blast and fail together).

Good times....

I don't think the roof has leaked yet, so there's that.

Soon come, LF.

The Library they built in STT was a disaster from start (design, location, materials) to finish massive cost overruns, roof, AC system, etc.) and still having issues. Maybe not same contractors but same shoddy BS.