Fallacious and Cogent Reasoning #1

I was reading some of the post on fallacious and cogent reasoning and I came across Taylor Stouts post.  I to read the article the other day about the Electric theater project.  When I read it I got excited because every time that I drive by I say to myself when is someone going to buy and restore the old theater?  I used to go to show there when I was in college and was also in a band from 2003 – 2009.  We played at the Electric Theater many times with a lot of great popular bands and had some great times there.  We had the privilege of playing with the likes of Making April, a band out of New York City twice and another band called Lydia out of Phoenix.  I have also seen a lot of other great bands there over the years.  The electric theater gave you a great sound and the set up on the dance floor was amazing.  I was sad to see that it shut down or was sold off.  I still remember going to movies there as a kid as well.  Karl Malone was in a movie about Porter Rockwell one of my childhood heroes.  I still remember seeing that film in the old Electric Theater.  I’m sure it has a lot more sentimental value for the older people from St. George.  For a long time it was the only Theater here.  It has a soft spot in my heart for sure and I think that the city is justified in sending the 3 million on the project especially if the “majority of the funds budgeted for the project have come from the sale of city property” Like Gary Esplin stated in the article.  I lived on 300 south and 54 East down town for years.  During the summer months in the past there have been concerts played in the Sun bowl.  Those concerts can be heard all over the down town area and I have often wished that they had another place to have these shows. Now I went to some of those show in the Sun Bowl and they were great but there was a lot of noise pollution that could be heard for the residents in the downtown area. 

I think that the restored Electric Theater will be a great alternative for some of these things.  It may not be able to seat a ton of people but it would keep the noise pollution down for sure.  I also may be a little bias to it all have had the opportunity to play there on several occasions as well.  I feel that the cities argument is cogent and they are justified in the restoration project.