Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction may open in Las Vegas
Published May 10th, 2007
Auction owner Craig Jackson said that he probably will not pull his show out of Scottsdale completely, but may scale back the event in future years.
Jackson said he was “shocked” at terms Scottsdale offered during recent negotiations to keep the lucrative event in Scottsdale for 20 years.
Particularly galling was the City Council’s decision to drop plans for a large multiuse building to replace the auction’s temporary tent at WestWorld, Jackson said.
The event is held every January at the special events facility northeast of Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard and Loop 101.
“All of our mutual planning to date had focused on the city building some type of new facility at WestWorld to replace the tents,” he wrote in an April 27 letter to Scottsdale City Manager Jan Dolan.
Jackson described it as a “substantial and surprising policy redirection” that sent him looking for other venues.
The council also decided it would not sell him any WestWorld land, as he had requested, so he could build his own auction house. Instead, the city offered to lease him the land for 20 years.
“It doesn’t make any sense for me to build an auction house on leased land for only 20 years,” said Jackson, who was between meetings in Las Vegas. “It brings us no closer to signing a deal. That’s why I’m out here looking for other options.”
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