THINGS TO DO WITH THE EMPTY JAIL
Rent the rooms to foreign visitors that come to see the Olympic track trials. It will make them feel safer while being in the car theft capital of Oregon, Eugene.
Use the cells as rented storage spaces.
Turn it into a "Bed and Breakfast"
Turn it into a diet spa and weight room.
Have the next "Bohemian Festival" at the jail.
Move county offices into the cells.
Trade it to Arlie and Co for a tree.
Turn it into a hospital.
Flood it and call it a wetland.
Turn it into a retirement home for Lane County, Oregon politicians.
Build a $4,000,000.00 (Four Million dollar) road over it.
Turn it into a "not for profit" ran by family and friends of Faye Stewart.
Turn it into Re-elect Bobby Green Headquarters.
Turn it into the next animal shelter. How much would they have to spend to improve the jail to bring it up to animal shelter standards?
Rent it to local Meth heads as a drug house.
Turn it into a rest stop for the ubiquitous Eugene "Walk For’s".
Plant truffles in the cells.
Turn it into a winery.
Do something sustainable with it.
Sequester Carbon Dioxide in it,
Use the revolving door that they let the criminals out of as a energy generation device.
Paint it green.
Hold the democratic convention there.
Have the "Betty Snowden" show there.
Turn it into the downtown bus stop.
Call it ART!!
Donate it to someone.
Say it is built on an ancient Indian gravesite and preserve it.
Make the movie "The Lane County Syndrome" there.
Hold Lane County Board of Commissioner meetings there.
Turn it into a mini mall.
Save whales in it.
Have HGTV film "flip this jail" there.
Give it to Oprah.
Recycle it into a new St. Vincent De Pauls thrift store.
Put all the hokey used car sales people in it.
Have a fairy tea party there.
Rename it the "Springfield Jail" and make them run it.
List it with CVALCO as a tourist destination.
Say it is endangered and get a grant to preserve it.
Raise awareness about it.
Call it a city park.
Let the healing begin and just move on.
Make it a prize in the lottery.
Call it an Old Growth Forest and set it on fire.
Move in spotted owls.
Make it part of the U of O campus.
Just say no.
Say it caused global warming and throw organic tomatoes at it.
Make it part of an annual tradition.
Move the fair grounds into it.
Store our local politicians there.
Or possibly use it as a place to hold criminals.