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ISHOF squares off for more battles.(Newsroom)
Setting a deadline for last month, the city officials in Fort Lauderdale said they would evict the International Swimming Hall of Fame if the aquatics organization didn't pay back money it owes.
Neither side will say exactly how much is owed, though it is 10 percent of whatever ISHOF generates by managing an adjacent city parking lot. But that's not the real issue, anyway, said Sam Freas, ISHOF's executive director. He added that the debt would be paid immediately following his board of directors' meeting in September, and that the nonpayment issue has been blown out of proportion.
"We have a problem with Fort Lauderdale because they know we want to leave," he said. "They're trying to say things that are incorrect so that people aren't interested in having us locate where they think we're going to locate."
He wouldn't elaborate on the city's inaccuracies, but did say that ISHOF's ...
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...to a new ISHOF complex. This comes in the wake of bureaucratic hurdles that may prevent ISHOF from staying in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Fort Lauderdale, ISHOF's home since it opened in 1965 and the "sentimental choice," is among the cities that...
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...currently located in Fort Lauderdale, where it has a lease...city until 2015. But ISHOF's 36-year-old...provided by the city so ISHOF could hold international...competitions. In 2001, ISHOF asked Fort Lauderdale to allow the development...
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...the decision to move ISHOF to a new location in...2001, the city of Fort Lauderdale voted down a proposal to expand ISHOF with new pools and...in both Daytona and Fort Lauderdale," said Trevor Tiffany, ISHOF board member. Freas...
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...Beach or stay in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In 2001...have expanded ISHOF with new pools...wanted to stay in Fort Lauderdale. Now that division...coach of the Fort Lauderdale Swim Team and...people have accused ISHOF's president...
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City officials in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said they...much is due, though ISHOF is supposed to contribute...but did say that the ISHOF board would discuss...process," Freas said. ISHOF and Fort Lauderdale have had a shaky relationship...
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- Magazine article from: Pool & Spa News Brown, AmyJo February 28, 2003 700+ words
...location in Fort Lauderdale. "It is possible that the ISHOF will be in...Sam Freas, ISHOF president...move from Fort Lauderdale after nearly...Freas. "Fort Lauderdale is a great...in the new ISHOF building...
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- Magazine article from: Aquatics International Conway, Tim November 1, 2001 700+ words
...and museum, according to ISHOF officials. Despite a $7...year-old Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale is outdated and ill-equipped...competitions, said Sam Freas, ISHOF president. The new, $30 million ISHOF will he designed by Hellmuth...
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- Magazine article from: Pool & Spa News Dumas, Bob December 26, 2003 700+ words
...outgrowing its current facility in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the organization...Hollywood and Pompano Beach, ISHOF may finally have found a home...accepted]," said Bob Duenkel, ISHOF's executive director...would make a nice addition." ISHOF officials have been working...
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- Magazine article from: Pool & Spa News January 11, 2002 700+ words
...announced in October. Instead, ISHOF is pursuing Pompano Beach as...in a timely manner," said ISHOF Board member and Vice President...2001 when city officials in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., home of ISHOF for the last 36 years, turned...
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...stole them from the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based museum...Carolina, contacted ISHOF, asking the museum...executive director of ISHOF. "There are still...be disassociated from ISHOF, citing poor security...our main facility in Fort Lauderdale." As for security...
Source: HighBeam Research, ISHOF squares off for more battles.(Newsroom)