Proposition #6: Texas Ranger Museum Improvements
Expand and renovate Knox Hall meeting/banquet facility including new
catering area, windows for river viewing, new electrical and mechanical, new audio
visual equipment, expanded rest rooms and a fire suppression system.$2,000,000
Cost to average homeowner: 21¢ / mo.
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It’s a shame that we own this amazing tourist attraction and don’t seem to know it. The Texas Ranger Museum is ours. It is a department of the City of Waco. And it’s one of our best cash cows, drawing 90% of its visitors from outside Waco – diners, shoppers and hotel guests who drop $3 to $4 million into our local economy each year. The Knox Hall banquet and meeting facility is also ours, a gift to the City of Waco that was built at the Ranger Museum complex in 1982. Because it is such a popular event venue for both out-of-town and local businesses, civic groups and families, it would be a shame to leave it with no fire suppression system, water stained interior woodwork, a primitive catering kitchen, inadequate restrooms and storage, as well as obsolete AV, electrical and lighting systems. |
Even at a capacity limit of 500 guests, Knox Hall’s banquet and meeting facility has generated more than $377,000 in revenue to the City of Waco across the past five years. Requests are growing for seating 800 people at Knox Hall, and we can make it possible. Hosting as many as 155 events per year, Knox Hall ranks second in use to the Waco Convention Center. Its renovation design would now provide lovely views of the park and Riverwalk and create a far more desirable interior for banquets, wedding receptions, and other formal events. The lowest priced bond proposition, this renovation will cost the average Waco homeowner just 21¢/mo. in added taxes.
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