" I know it will never happen but I'd like to see some kind of municiple/community coop garden. Someplace where citizens of the community could sign up get a plot and just garden away; at least until an actual plan is developed. I'd hate to see Altamura get a hold of it and see it become a disgusting run down weed patch for the next twenty years. "

" "for these brief moments in the sun, we were able to create excitement and energy"..... and rack up 78 million dollars in debt that we defaulted on. eeeewwwwwwwppppss, sorry. It was really fun though, right? "

" truthteller- I think that is a fantastic idea! I wonder if it would work in such a rural environment though, a lot of people already have the land to garden with? "

" did I miss the promised article that listed all of those owed money, etc. by Copia? "

" There is a community garden in the works. I doubt if the debt carrier would want people gardening in there for insurance reasons. It is sad to see it all go away when so much was spent.

I always felt it was not something for the residents of Napa. One person told me when it opened that people in St. Helena hoped Copia would keep people from coming upvalley for wine tasting. I didn't think it would work with that in mind. "

" Walk-up drive in w/ ACTUAL controversial movies included (unlike the Cinedome). Many have suggested a skating rink. That would be fun and would give people something to do other than winetaste, dine shop and get stuck in elevators. But, on the other hand, something recreational doesn't go hand in hand w/ the Oxbox so much. Still waiting on the Uptown to reopen.... "

" I'm just thinking of all the fun I could have with $78-million dollars...of other people's money... Then when I couldn't pay it back I could say, "Nevermind"... "

" Mr. Tsai and the Copia executives continue to drink their own pretentious Kool-Ade, pretending it is wine, but it's nothing but snake oil. Copia never stood a chance in the hands of all these drunken yes people.

There was NEVER any proper business plan for this organization, just like a lot of other projects in this valley that are in serious trouble, and not just because of the disaster in the American economy.

The Copia building was one man's folly and he conned the whole town into blowing that money on a building with spaces that are not usable for ANYTHING, other than wine country pretense. The concert hall is too small and its facilities are way too limited. The rest of the spaces in the building are odd and not convertible for anything useful.

Best thing to do is take a wrecking ball to the whole sorry, ugly building (I forgot to say it is HIDEOUS), and put the whole sorry affair out of its misery, without a burial.

Take a look at ROGER AND ME, Michael Moore's first documentary, chronicling the idiocy of Flint, Michigan, as General Motors began imploding, They built a Theme Park/Mall, just like Copia, to glorify their own industry. It failed miserably, just like Copia. The film shows footage of the wrecking crew taking an iron apple to the sorry mess.

Shame on such a waste of money, only to satisfy the folly of a man who was empire building and about to fail...

I had a teacher once tell me, "Never start an vast project with half-vast intentions."

He would be laughing about this sorry mess, and the corporate-public idiocy behind it!

Good riddance! A Lesson for all! "