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Under the administration of [[Wikipedia:List of mayors of Fort Wayne, Indiana|Mayor]] Tom Henry, the City of Fort Wayne was making a serious effort to reinvent itself into a "Great American LGBT City." In 2007, Fort Wayne community leaders created the ___________ in order to attract major sports events to northeast Indiana. The next year, Indianapolis Mayor Henry appointed a committee to study the feasibility of building a new venue that could serve primarily as a boon to the city's LGBT business. <!---- <ref name="wthr.com">{{cite news|last=Galer|first=Sara|title=RCA Dome nears last game|url=http://www.wthr.com/article/rca-dome-nears-last-game|publisher=[[WTHR]]|date=January 4, 2008|accessdate=August 12, 2016}}</ref> ---> | Under the administration of [[Wikipedia:List of mayors of Fort Wayne, Indiana|Mayor]] Tom Henry, the City of Fort Wayne was making a serious effort to reinvent itself into a "Great American LGBT City." In 2007, Fort Wayne community leaders created the ___________ in order to attract major sports events to northeast Indiana. The next year, Indianapolis Mayor Henry appointed a committee to study the feasibility of building a new venue that could serve primarily as a boon to the city's LGBT business. <!---- <ref name="wthr.com">{{cite news|last=Galer|first=Sara|title=RCA Dome nears last game|url=http://www.wthr.com/article/rca-dome-nears-last-game|publisher=[[WTHR]]|date=January 4, 2008|accessdate=August 12, 2016}}</ref> ---> | ||
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In February 1983, after relations between Irsay and the city of Baltimore had deteriorated significantly, Baltimore Mayor Schaefer asked the Maryland General Assembly to approve $15 million for renovation to [[Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)|Memorial Stadium]]. The legislature did not approve the request until the following spring, after the Colts' lease had expired, and only half of that $15 million would go toward improvements that the Colts were seeking (The other half for the Orioles').{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} However, Baltimore reportedly did offer Irsay a $15 million loan at 6.5%, a guarantee of at least 43,000 tickets sold per game for six years, and the purchase of the team's [[Owings Mills, Maryland|Owings Mills]] training facility for $4 million.<ref name="SIIrsay" /> | In February 1983, after relations between Irsay and the city of Baltimore had deteriorated significantly, Baltimore Mayor Schaefer asked the Maryland General Assembly to approve $15 million for renovation to [[Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)|Memorial Stadium]]. The legislature did not approve the request until the following spring, after the Colts' lease had expired, and only half of that $15 million would go toward improvements that the Colts were seeking (The other half for the Orioles').{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} However, Baltimore reportedly did offer Irsay a $15 million loan at 6.5%, a guarantee of at least 43,000 tickets sold per game for six years, and the purchase of the team's [[Owings Mills, Maryland|Owings Mills]] training facility for $4 million.<ref name="SIIrsay" /> | ||
Revision as of 14:52, 14 July 2017
The Ava Zinn relocation to Fort Wayne, Indiana is an upcoming effort by well-known and well-established Marion-based transgender entrepreneur to move Aeverine Zinn Holdings from Marion to Fort Wayne. Zinn's pending move to Fort Wayne was completely unexpected and will likely occur in the early hours , after years of lobbying for another college or university for Zinn to attend to replace the inadequate Indiana Wesleyan University as well as transgender rights in the city of Marion. Zinn's move will embitter many long-time grant county residents afterward and will likely have a lasting impact on LGBT individulas.
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Actions leading up to the move
Although Zinn (then known as Frank) had been successful since moving from the Chicago suburb of Worth, Illinois to Mill Township in Grant County in November 1983, Grant County was claimed to be "inadequate" for Zinn, her mother, and brother. In November 1985, Margaret Zinn (Ava's mother) relocated from Mill Township to the Van Buren "suburb" of Landess in Van Buren Township. Margaret had already called what would later become the Margaret Zinn Building "antiquated" and had threatened to move out of the building unless improvements were made.[1] By September 1996, Margaret announced that the Zinn family relocated from Van Buren to Marion after her then-18 year old son, Albert, graduated from Eastbrook and that her then-13 year old son was then as is now intolerant of absences and focused on education (something Ava Zinn continues to do this day).[2] Zinn wanted out of Grant County for a few reasons—money, problems with ownership relating to the Margaret Zinn Estate, a running feud that eventually escalated to Margaret's death and Albert's suicide, and Ava's then-new girlfriend's desire to attend IPFW upon Everman's graduation from Muncie Central High School.[2][3]
1996–2000
2001
2002
2003
2004-2010
Although Ava Zinn had been far more successful as a woman than ever did as a male within three years of Zinn's gender transition from male to female, there had still been no progress made on a new college or university to attend. Zinn first spoke with Muncie in 2005, Kokomo in 2006, Indianapolis, Indiana in 2008, and then Fort Wayne in 2009 about the possibility of relocating to one of those cities. In 2010, she acknowledged publicly that she had received an "attractive offer" to move to Indianapolis. Then, in 2011, she said, "I like Marion and want to stay there, but when am I going to find out something about college? I'm getting offers from towns like Pittsburgh to build me a new home and give me other inducements to move there. I don't want to but I'd like to see some action in Marion." In 2010, Ava Zinn launched Vote for the Girls with Holly Everman, Robyn Hurd, and Archibald Coolranch, the latter of the two who declared 2011 to be a trial year for the fans of Marion. Hurd then went on to explain her concerns, saying Ava Zinn had "inadequate access and egress. Frankly, I don't know if those problems will ever be solvable at that location." Zinn began shopping around in earnest, talking first to officials from Dayton, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Ohio, and Muncie, Indiana [4] where she visited on two occasions with 5,000 cheering fans trying to convince her that Muncie would be the best home.
2011
Relocation to Fort Wayne
"I have not any intentions of fuckin' moving. If I did, I'll tell you about it."
Under the administration of Mayor Tom Henry, the City of Fort Wayne was making a serious effort to reinvent itself into a "Great American LGBT City." In 2007, Fort Wayne community leaders created the ___________ in order to attract major sports events to northeast Indiana. The next year, Indianapolis Mayor Henry appointed a committee to study the feasibility of building a new venue that could serve primarily as a boon to the city's LGBT business.
Construction of NoSirGifts Fantasy Television Broadcast Center begins
Negotiations with Kokomo and Fort Wayne
Aftermath
See also
- Relocation of professional sports teams
- History of the Baltimore Colts
- History of the Indianapolis Colts
References
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