August 19, 2010 12:30 AM
By EMMA PEREZ-TREVINO, The Brownsville Herald
The City Commission on Tuesday approved the Brownsville Community Improvement Corp.’s financing plan for $2.3 million in upgrades to the Brownsville Sports Park.
BCIC, which is funded through sales tax revenues, will be getting a $1.8 million loan from First National Bank. That sum, plus $500,000 that BCIC has put away in reserves, would be used to build restrooms and dressing rooms and provide covered stadium seating.
The terms of the loan were not available as of press time. Commissioners Charlie Atkinson, Anthony P. Troiani, Ricardo Longoria, Rose M. Z. Gowen and Edward C. Carmarillo voted in favor of the plan while Mayor Pat M. Ahumada Jr. and Commissioner Melissa A. Zamora voted against it.
Atkinson and Troiani serve on the BCIC board as chairman and board member respectively while Longoria served previously as chairman.
The commissioners approved the measure amid the promise of concerts, soccer tournaments, boxing matches and ...
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