{"id":140333,"date":"2011-11-09T13:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T19:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=140333"},"modified":"2011-11-10T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:19:56","slug":"longview-rodeo-arena-closes-council-to-decide-on-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=140333","title":{"rendered":"Longview Rodeo Arena Closes; Council to Decide on Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=140334\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-140334\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/11\/lv_arena-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lv_arena\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-140334\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLONGVIEW \u2014 Longview Rodeo Arena is closed to the public at perhaps the height of its popularity. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, the city must now decide whether to spend $1 million to demolish and replace the structure that has served Longview at least six decades. <\/p>\n<p>The city closed the arena after a Houston-based civil engineering firm on Oct. 18 found structural damage and corrosion to the bleachers. In his report, Senior Structural Engineer Keith Burkholder with Lockwood, Andrews &#038; Newman, Inc., said the arena\u2019s grandstands are in disrepair and structurally unsound. He also found significant corrosion, design and construction deficiencies on all five grandstands and recommended that the facility be demolished and replaced because of the \u201csubstantial cost for complete restoration\u201d of the arena to meet building code requirements. Burkholder said it was the first inspection in his 26-year career in which he recommended a facility\u2019s closure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve known for some time that this facility was in dire straits, because every year we spend money to patch it up,\u201d Mayor Jay Dean said. \u201cIt has gotten to the point where we are not curing the problem, but instead postponing the inevitable.\u201d Municipal leaders Thursday will present to council members a $1 million plan to demolish and replace the rodeo arena\u2019s grandstands, lighting and announcer\u2019s booth. If approved by the council in December, Public Works Director Keith Bonds said construction would be complete prior to the arena\u2019s next scheduled event, Dalton Days on April 14-15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 Longview Rodeo Arena is closed to the public at perhaps the height of its popularity. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, the city must now decide whether to spend $1 million to demolish and replace the structure that has served Longview at least six decades. The city closed the arena after a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=140333\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Rodeo Arena Closes; Council to Decide on Replacement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 10:53:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140333"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140641,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140333\/revisions\/140641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}