Originally Posted by billdelong

The story about the closing of OCRC is a cautionary tale... I might not have all the specifics exactly right but this is the story I heard:

The track was located in the back of a strip mall which also shared rental space with an adjoining church. Apparently there was a feud between the church and the track for some time over limited parking and the 3 day events from the track would spill over to Sundays which pissed off the church. Supposedly the church wanted to "expand" and got the landlord to non-renew the lease for the track so the church could assume the lease. After the track closed and removed all the contents from the facility, the church claims they miscalculated their budget and can't lease the extra space after all... oops... sorry, not sorry. The church eliminated their parking problem

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Lesson learned is for the track to own the property right?

So there was another track in Dallas called Mike's Hobby Shop where the land was owned by the track and the plan was for the track to remain in place indefinitely... until eminent domain allowed the city to widen the highway which wiped out something like 90% of the parking making it impossible to host racing at the venue and they were forced to sell.