RT Rybak wrote:
It's potentially a great project that links transit and housing...and the one thing I have to say we don't want to do is anything mediocre. The newsletter Dorie referred to said it would be a shame to have it be a boring glass bus station. That's not going to happen...If we don't get some really interesting bids we aren't going to do anything....We will hold the block until something really great comes along...it's too good a block to waste on something mediocre.
It is potentially a great project...but that does not justify the City's involvement. I am troubled by your use of "we", as in "we don't want to do is anything mediocre" because the "we" that will be on the hook if this project fails are the taxpayers. While you wait for those interesting bids to come in, the property sits off the taxrolls. Let those who risk their own money build on that property with their own money.
I second Victoria Heller's suggestion that the property be sold to the highest bidder. I don't want another dollar of mine being spent on another politician's monument.
Scott McGerik Hawthorne http://scott.mcgerik.com/
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