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    Ok, having been an owner of SEDA, I can safely tell you that your busniness idea would fail.

    First off. Insurance would eat you alive.
    Secondly, your liability would be astronomical.
    Thirdly, zoning would be impossible.
    I don't even know if Fourthly is a word but, noise violations and complaints would shut you down within the first month.

    We did an event at Gwinnett county fairgrounds once.........once. We had so many complaints that an officer was dispatched to sit there. The reason? Screeching tires. Makes everyone around think there's been an accident and they call out the cops.

    It's a wonderful idea, but it's a fantasy. You will lose your ass. Black Hills Circuit is losing it's ass right now. Sure it's far away, but they have none of the problems that I mentioned above.

    At your place you will have to have track personel, EMT's, Fire services, security and god knows what else because it will be classified as a racing facility. This isn't a skatepark we are talking about.

    Repaving alone in the kind of asphalt you would need will run you well over 500,000 i'm sure. To repave and extend BHC was something close to a Mil I think, Could be wrong on that but my paving at my business was over 70,000 and it's tiny.

    So open a T-shirt shop and call it a day. Anything more than that will bankrupt you and you'll end up either committing suicide or robbing a 7-11.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glides
    Ok, having been an owner of SEDA, I can safely tell you that your busniness idea would fail.

    First off. Insurance would eat you alive.
    Secondly, your liability would be astronomical.
    Thirdly, zoning would be impossible.
    I don't even know if Fourthly is a word but, noise violations and complaints would shut you down within the first month.

    We did an event at Gwinnett county fairgrounds once.........once. We had so many complaints that an officer was dispatched to sit there. The reason? Screeching tires. Makes everyone around think there's been an accident and they call out the cops.

    It's a wonderful idea, but it's a fantasy. You will lose your ass. Black Hills Circuit is losing it's ass right now. Sure it's far away, but they have none of the problems that I mentioned above.

    At your place you will have to have track personel, EMT's, Fire services, security and god knows what else because it will be classified as a racing facility. This isn't a skatepark we are talking about.

    Repaving alone in the kind of asphalt you would need will run you well over 500,000 i'm sure. To repave and extend BHC was something close to a Mil I think, Could be wrong on that but my paving at my business was over 70,000 and it's tiny.

    So open a T-shirt shop and call it a day. Anything more than that will bankrupt you and you'll end up either committing suicide or robbing a 7-11.
    Wow. I knew it would have a lot of difficulties, but I totally forgot about ins/EMS/paving.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr_Mischif
    Wow. I knew it would have a lot of difficulties, but I totally forgot about ins/EMS/paving.
    BUT WAIT...There's more.

    Plans, planning commision, lawyers fee's (because youa re going to have to go to war with anyone or any business in the area that doesn't want a bunch of fast car driving hoodlums racing around there), hell, just your fee's to have it all drawn up will be in the thousands. Plus all the copys of said plans for every crew that working on the project (and the extra copys for when they leave it at the bar, in their car, at home, destroy it by running over it with a backhoe or paving machine) and so on and so forth.

    Then you get to take bids, deal with contracters, deal with theft of materials, electrical permits for the lighting, grease the hands of politicians to fight for you on the city council (such as buying their wives ****ty ass Amway products) and many more fun and exciting hiccups and snafus that come along. The EPA will be your friend throughout the entire experience along with an onsite monitoring company who like to show up at the wee hours of the morning to find the bad things that the crews from the day before forgot to pick up so you get fined.

    I'd rather stick my **** in a blender.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glides
    Ok, having been an owner of SEDA, I can safely tell you that your busniness idea would fail.

    First off. Insurance would eat you alive.
    Secondly, your liability would be astronomical.
    Thirdly, zoning would be impossible.
    I don't even know if Fourthly is a word but, noise violations and complaints would shut you down within the first month.

    We did an event at Gwinnett county fairgrounds once.........once. We had so many complaints that an officer was dispatched to sit there. The reason? Screeching tires. Makes everyone around think there's been an accident and they call out the cops.

    It's a wonderful idea, but it's a fantasy. You will lose your ass. Black Hills Circuit is losing it's ass right now. Sure it's far away, but they have none of the problems that I mentioned above.

    At your place you will have to have track personel, EMT's, Fire services, security and god knows what else because it will be classified as a racing facility. This isn't a skatepark we are talking about.

    Repaving alone in the kind of asphalt you would need will run you well over 500,000 i'm sure. To repave and extend BHC was something close to a Mil I think, Could be wrong on that but my paving at my business was over 70,000 and it's tiny.

    So open a T-shirt shop and call it a day. Anything more than that will bankrupt you and you'll end up either committing suicide or robbing a 7-11.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glides
    Ok, having been an owner of SEDA, I can safely tell you that your busniness idea would fail.

    First off. Insurance would eat you alive.
    Secondly, your liability would be astronomical.
    Thirdly, zoning would be impossible.
    I don't even know if Fourthly is a word but, noise violations and complaints would shut you down within the first month.

    We did an event at Gwinnett county fairgrounds once.........once. We had so many complaints that an officer was dispatched to sit there. The reason? Screeching tires. Makes everyone around think there's been an accident and they call out the cops.

    It's a wonderful idea, but it's a fantasy. You will lose your ass. Black Hills Circuit is losing it's ass right now. Sure it's far away, but they have none of the problems that I mentioned above.

    At your place you will have to have track personel, EMT's, Fire services, security and god knows what else because it will be classified as a racing facility. This isn't a skatepark we are talking about.

    Repaving alone in the kind of asphalt you would need will run you well over 500,000 i'm sure. To repave and extend BHC was something close to a Mil I think, Could be wrong on that but my paving at my business was over 70,000 and it's tiny.

    So open a T-shirt shop and call it a day. Anything more than that will bankrupt you and you'll end up either committing suicide or robbing a 7-11.



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    Do you know how many millions the building/lot alone would cost you? This is commercial property. You'd have to to charge $1000 a car to make it profitable even if you could get past the zoning, etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glides
    Ok, having been an owner of SEDA, I can safely tell you that your busniness idea would fail.

    First off. Insurance would eat you alive.
    Secondly, your liability would be astronomical.
    Thirdly, zoning would be impossible.
    I don't even know if Fourthly is a word but, noise violations and complaints would shut you down within the first month.

    We did an event at Gwinnett county fairgrounds once.........once. We had so many complaints that an officer was dispatched to sit there. The reason? Screeching tires. Makes everyone around think there's been an accident and they call out the cops.

    It's a wonderful idea, but it's a fantasy. You will lose your ass. Black Hills Circuit is losing it's ass right now. Sure it's far away, but they have none of the problems that I mentioned above.

    At your place you will have to have track personel, EMT's, Fire services, security and god knows what else because it will be classified as a racing facility. This isn't a skatepark we are talking about.

    Repaving alone in the kind of asphalt you would need will run you well over 500,000 i'm sure. To repave and extend BHC was something close to a Mil I think, Could be wrong on that but my paving at my business was over 70,000 and it's tiny.

    So open a T-shirt shop and call it a day. Anything more than that will bankrupt you and you'll end up either committing suicide or robbing a 7-11.
    Who are you? I drove at the GCF event, and its still considered by a lot of people who went, to have been one of the best events thats been held in Ga. The track layout was amazing, and it was long. Not like the typical events we get now, with a "track" containing usually 4 corners. While those are great for learning consistency, they're not nearly as fun as thrashing your car for almost a solid minute.

    Is anything happening with BHC, or are you guys just gonna leave it as it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrivenMind
    Is anything happening with BHC, or are you guys just gonna leave it as it?

    from what i've seen the guy is trying to sell it. for a mere $280k you can own your own beat up kart track in the middle of nowhere, GA.

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