[SFDXA] Hara Arena — Hamvention’s Former Home — to be Auctioned by IRS

[Pete Rimmel N8PR]

Why waste the time and money.  The locals have the new venue well in hand.

PeteR  N8PR

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From: William Marx
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Subject: [SFDXA] Hara Arena — Hamvention’s Former Home — to be Auctioned by 
IRS

>From Tony N2MFT:

One wonders if Tim or some deep pockets ham buys it and brings it back. 
Probably wouldn't be profitable for them either.
- Bill W2CQ
>
> Hara Arena — Hamvention’s Former Home — to be Auctioned by IRS
>
> 08/04/2017
> Hara Arena, the former home of Hamvention®, is going on the auction block, 
> the IRS has announced. The now-beleaguered building and grounds were 
> closed a year ago last month by its owners, the Wampler Family, which had 
> attempted for years, unsuccessfully, to put Hara on a profitable plane. 
> The minimum bid is $850,000; proceeds will satisfy a tax lien. The auction 
> comes in the wake of an Order of Sale entered in the US District Court for 
> the Southern District of Ohio. The IRS will take bids on August 30 on the 
> 1001 Shiloh Springs Road site, starting at 11 AM ET (bidders must be 
> registered by 10 AM ET). An “open house” for prospective bidders will be 
> held on August 29. According to the announcement, “any rights, titles, 
> claims, liens and interest” in the buildings and land will be discharged 
> once a sale is confirmed. The auction brochure includes several recent 
> photos of the Hara Complex.
>
> “The Arena, formally known as the Hara Arena, is a six-building complex 
> that contained an ice rink, ballroom, conference hall, concerts seating, 
> sports events, shows of unlimited venues and restaurant,” the auction 
> announcement said, noting that the two land parcels that make up the site 
> in the Dayton suburb of Trotwood comprise slightly more than 25 acres.
>
> Prospective bidders must put up $170,000 in earnest money to be eligible 
> to take part in the auction. Payments must be by Certified or Cashier’s 
> Check made payable to the United States District Court for the Southern 
> District of Ohio.
>
> “No bids will be received from any person who has not presented proof 
> that, if he or she is the successful bidder, he or she can make the 
> deposit required by the Order,” the announcement said. Sale of the real 
> property shall be subject to confirmation by the Court.
>
> The now-deteriorating Hara Arena served as the home of Hamvention® from 
> 1964 until 2016, before it was closed abruptly last summer. Soon after, 
> Hamvention’s sponsor, the Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA), 
> announced that it would be relocating the country’s most popular Amateur 
> Radio gathering to the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Xenia, 
> where Hamvention 2017 took place in May. Last November, an online 
> auctioneer took bids on a variety of items from the former Hamvention 
> home, many of which went to nostalgia buffs or those having some 
> sentimental connection with the facility.
>
> Hara Arena had been facing long-standing financial problems — including 
> unpaid property taxes — and unresolved family financial issues. Promised 
> renovations never materialized for the 2016 Hamvention, which attracted 
> more than 25,000 visitors, worth millions of dollars to the Dayton area 
> economy.
>
> The Wampler family had owned and operated Hara Arena since its humble 
> origins in the 1950s, when Wampler Ballarena — then a dance hall and now 
> an exhibit hall familiar to Hamvention visitors — was built in what had 
> been a family-owned orchard.
>
> http://www.arrl.org/news/hara-arena-hamvention-s-former-home-to-be-auctioned-by-irs
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