City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga

[Tigger]

redrumloa wrote:
No really, is this a joke or hoax? Was it ever really on Amiga Inc's website? I'm having a hard time with it, as it would be just about the most stupid, full of crap press release EVER in the history of press releases.

No its real, Amiga Inc, is going to give millions of dollars to name a conference center after themselves.  The cool thing is half the people at Amigans.net are already planning to go visit the conference center for the opening ceremonies, and may eventually face that direction whenever they kneel on there boing ball rugs to pray to "The McEwen"
     -Tig

[Tigger]

humppa wrote:

I just happen to agree with Tigger, this deal may have cost millions.

So it seems the deal hasn't even been finalized yet. The whole project still needs approval. But "more than $300,000 a year" isn't peanuts either. Especially for a company that doesn't seems to have any money for paying their employees.

One of the original posts had it pegged at $6M investment, I dont know if that was a 20 year contract (at 300K) or some original investment plus the 300K a year.   The stadium hasnt been approved yet, in fact the reason the press release yo-yoed yesterday is that it was found before the 1:30 PST press conference where it was announced.  Almost immediately after that the new site came up with the press release.   However in the next week or so the state legislature should decide about the money and if they fund there portion, Amiga Center in Kent is probably going to be a reality.  And Kent will make lots of money when the pilgrims flock in on the Amiga Holy days, (McEwens birthday, Mitchie's birthday, Jay's Birthday, Amigas birthday, Sheep Day, etc).
    -Tig