Art projects are a very hard sell and a bitter pill to swallow when front line services are being cut.
If the council was deploying all possible efforts towards finding and attracting industry and investment to the area that will contribute a real, hard, fiscal return, I would be all for an Arts project.
I would be desperately trying to recruit a ‘Dr Gwyn Jones’ to repeat the successes of the WDA.
Regardless of some of the controversies that surrounded the man, he really did the business for Wales.
Bring in some real, inward investment to the area to spread the rates bills of the remaining, surviving Wrexham businesses and THEN spend the money on vanity projects.