Basically the YC is a government run entity . . . there is no urgency to succeed because the property owners (ie taxpayers) pick up the tab. 

re "identity", the place is obviously designed primarily to be a banquet hall to service non-property owner wedding/banquet guests.  I've said many times "the wedding guests got the penthouse, the property owners got the bargain basement".

at the infamous "don't call me a liar" gm townhall, I commented to the gm (re the YC) "why don't we just wash our hands of that whole operation and lease it out to a businessman who has local name recognition".  I also disputed his 'it's an amenity' excuse for failure by pointing out that in reality it is a retail business that sells a retail product at retail prices and does not have a pricing structure that differentiates between property owners and non-property owners as the true amenities do.  it is an amenity like the marina gas pumps are an amenity.

when on the clubs advisory committee I beat this drum often, and it went nowhere.  and the prob is however, I wonder if the place (due to poor design) is marketable as a lease property.

5 mil of property owners money and what are we to do, shut it down to the property owners for 8 months a year, or to run it in a way that property owners actually patronize the place?

the YC was a "field of dreams" project . . . build it and they will come. 

steve lind