Before the Peoria County Board:
“We’re really at a moment of truth,” said Lakeview Museum board chairman Jim Vergon. “This is a defining moment for the Peoria Riverfront Museum, or Museum Square. Without being too melodramatic about it, this is also a defining moment for central Illinois in so many ways.”
–Journal Star, Nov. 9, 2007
Before the Illinois Senate Appropriations Committee:
Jim Vergon, chairman of the Lakeview Museum Board, told the Senate committee that the sought-after $12 million in state funding would trigger a $136 million redevelopment project on the Peoria riverfront…. “The moment of truth is really upon us for this project,” Vergon said.
–Journal Star, May 15, 2008
I’ll bet there’s another “moment of truth” just around the corner when they ask the Peoria City Council for yet another extension on their redevelopment agreement for the Sears block.
Well, it’s a moment. I don’t know abotu the “truth” part.
A variation on Markley’s comment — This is a load of manure.
$136 million? Where did that number come from?
Infidels!!!
$136 million is what it will cost US to hire another consultant.