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Museum project too big, too expensive

Now that they’ve lost their federal earmark funding, the already-heavily-underfunded Peoria Riverfront Museum is looking for something — anything — to prop up their big plans for the old Sears block. The latest funding scheme: The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program.

As I understand it, the way NMTC works is that investors would donate [...]

February 5th, 2007 | Category: City of Peoria, Museum Block | 47 comments - (Comments are closed)

People in glass arcades shouldn’t throw stones

David Stuckel, attorney for the Civic Center Authority, had his letter to the editor printed in the Journal Star today. He asks:

Why should Peoria taxpayers be ticked by the efforts of the Peoria Civic Center Authority to bring a new hotel to Downtown, as suggested in the Jan. 29 editorial? Because it will improve Downtown’s [...]

February 5th, 2007 | Category: Peoria Civic Center | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)