Lackmeyer Interview With Randy Hogan 10-22-06

[Patrick]

Reading the constant lambasting of Hogan in this forum by a few vocal assassins and history revisionists gets very tiresome as it seems to be unrelenting. Hogan was the only viable, and I use the word viable loosely to the extreme, developer to step up.

There were actually 3 groups that stepped up the the plate with proposals: Bricktown2000, TMK-Hogan, and Sooner Development.

]Moshe Tal had no viability of any kind in my view.

That was never proven. He had statements from Bank One and Midfirst Bank supporting financing of his development. I had copies of those letters until I finally trashed them recently.

Hogan has merely been trying to recover his investor's money any way he can and that means allowing the users to put up anything they want within the allowed oversight.

What investor's money? He hasn't invested anything. Indirectly, he was given the land.

No one knows what might have happened if Hogan could have proceeded with his original plans before Tal's crybaby lawsuit.

That's just it. Hogan never had any clear cut plans, and he never had anything more than a letter of intent from Edwards Theatres.

From the time I found OKC Talk until now I have formed the belief Moshe Tal created a cult of followers during his time in the Sun and they now use this forum to extoll the virtues of Talism.

We don't necessarily like Tal. We just know that Lower Bricktown can be more than what it is now.

I am just glad that Talism didn't have so many converts back in the nineties or we would be talking about the nice cement pond that runs through the weed patch south of Reno if no one besides Hogan and his investors had never ponied up.
Send Talism back to dark ages.

Had Talism had converts back in the 90's we'd have upscale stores, urban development, etc. on the canal now, instead of a fishing and tackle store, and a bunch of surburban developments.