The Smith Farm territory at Three Creeks Metro Park would be rented for a long time as a celebration site, with the likelihood of extra celebrations at the site, a South by Southwest-like music gathering, and different occasions that would bring more individuals — and hence more cash — to Columbus.
"One of DWP's essential objectives is for our celebrations to produce financial effect for our host city," composed Daniel Hayes, the CEO of Los Angeles-based Danny Wimmer Presents, which, alongside AEG, advances Rock on the Range, a hard-shake/metal celebration that drew 140,000 fans more than three days this past May to Mapfre Stadium.
Authorities with the Columbus Department of Recreation and Parks nixed the Smith Farm proposition a week ago, refering to natural issues and open input: The recreation center's 1,100 sections of land incorporate 40 sections of land of wetlands, and Metro Parks magistrates and ecological gatherings restricted the thought.
Be that as it may, the proposition was genuinely considered by the city and the Columbus Partnership, a not-for-profit gathering of Columbus business pioneers, as indicated by in excess of 1,200 pages of messages and maps The Dispatch acquired from the amusement and parks office through an open records ask.
It's vague which of seven other conceivable locales still may be in play. Robin Davis, representative for Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther, said there haven't been any more talks since Three Creeks Metro Park was disposed of.
"It doesn't mean there won't be discussion," Davis said.
Brian Hoyt, a Columbus entertainment and parks representative, said the 210-section of land Berliner Park, home to 31 ball fields on the South Side close to the Interstate 71-Greenlawn Avenue trade, isn't being talked about as a potential setting.
In 2016, Gov. John Kasich recommended that Rock on the Range's promoters could be searching for a bigger setting, maybe in Cleveland.
Alex Fischer, the Columbus Partnership's leader and CEO, said his gathering can enable promoters to develop Rock on the Range into something greater.
"I do figure you shouldn't underestimate them. They put on an awesome occasion," Fischer said. "They're either going to become here or develop elsewhere. I trust they can locate the correct situation to become here."
The May 9 email from Hayes to Columbus' unique occasions and program and generation facilitators proposes a long haul manage the city.
"The $325M financial effect of Austin's South by Southwest is a decent model of what DWP might want to accomplish in Columbus by executing a long haul development plan that would incorporate expanding participation, including more celebrations, using the (Greater Columbus Convention Center) for a SXSW style music gathering, programming official occasions in downtown eateries and neighborhood attractions," Hayes composed.
"The impediments of DWP's present celebration site in Columbus, Crew (Mapfre) Stadium, does not take into account this level of effect in Columbus."
Hayes composed that Rock on the Range's assessed monetary effect this year was relied upon to be more than $58 million, and that facilitating a few occasions in a similar area would help that effect.
He indicated Louisville, Kentucky, for instance of what could occur in Columbus. In Louisville, Danny Wimmer Presents went into a long haul, multi-celebration concurrence with the city, where the promoter's Louder Than Life shake celebration created $24 million for the network.
That prompted the Bourbon and Beyond celebration that started in 2017, and a down home music-themed celebration that will dispatch in 2019.
As indicated by Louisville's monetary effect examine, the extra celebrations would each add $19.5 million to the economy consistently.
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