The Journal Star has the not-so-surprising scoop that IMAX is coming someplace other than the Peoria Riverfront Museum. Oh, IMAX “may” still come to the museum says perpetually poker-faced Dave Ransburg. Now we know it’s not going to happen.
“Build it for me,” she pleads about the “big-city” prospect of getting an IMAX. The PRM won’t build it for her, but Rave will. And without a dime of taxpayer assistance. Imagine.
Oh – man. What a bill of goods Peoria County residents have been sold on this museum.
I wonder if Rave & IMAX held the news purposely for a few days so it wouldn’t coincide with the petition drive.
Jim Richerson and Doug Oberhelman have to both be having a severe case of heartburn this evening, as should all of the Peoria County and City of Peoria officials who voted for this project without the certainty that it would include an IMAX as they had been promised.
Really…….
Well… there you go. I don’t suppose city and county govt. are ready to cry “UNCLE” yet…?
You know what, let the tax stand… only invest it in something that will cause economic growth, etc, rather than stifle it.
Full steam ahead…….damn the torpedoes!!!!!
What an absolute joke.
And don’t worry about Olberhelman. I doubt he has a conscience. Sort of like the weasel/liar Ransburg.
Of the proposed Rave theater:
“It’s nothing like what (the public) would see if they went to a true IMAX-film giant screen theater that most people believe they think of as an IMAX theater,” said James Hyder, editor and publisher of LF Examiner Magazine, an independent journal for the large-format motion picture industry.
nontimendum:
White Oaks, the museum planning group, in their latest ‘Strategic Master Plan, Volume II’ for the ‘PRM’, dated June 30, 2010, wrote that the PRM’s plan will need to have all of the components as planned, including an IMAX to meet projections.
Additionally, PRM’s attendance potential could be achieved in a stable year of operation, 180,000 people, provided that no additional competition or similar IMAX theater is built nearby. [Nearby means in the immediate area or approximately within 50 miles. ….. page 175]
Many references to the importance of the IMAX brand to sustain the project. Please note the word ‘sustain’. Not even asking for a profit, just that more taxpayer dollars will not continue to be used to sustain this regrettably poorly planned project.
http://www.peoriacounty.org/countyBoard/files/get/Committee_Agenda_and_Minutes%2F2010%2FAugust%2F6+-+Peoria+Riverfront+Museum%2FMusagenda100806packet.pdf
And so, we continue to agree to disagree.
Watch… some rich Peorian will donate several million to this project to bring in a real surround screen theater, get it named after him and then the PRM can say… see? This what we were planning all along.
Why is Mr. Rannsburg so afraid of the public and doing things in the open where everybody can see?
OOOH big surprise we have been LIED to by the gubermant.
So, what you are saying Karrie, is that the PRM’s OWN DOCUMENTATION proves the PMC is no longer economically viable.
First Mate: Sir… there is an iceberg ahead. Should we turn?
Captain: Nonsense my boy, this ship is the finest ship made by man. It is unsinkable! That iceberg will be crushed by our mighty bow. Full steam ahead!!
First Mate: Aye Aye Captain!!
**horn sounds**
Bayooooooooooooooooooga
Billy: Just giving the documenation that the PRM provided to the county. Please feel free to draw your own conclusions. When you varnish the floor of a room and you start at the door and back yourself into a corner with no way out — you would think you would realize your mistake … not this group. Mahkno …. regrettably accurate.
We are so on the wrong road and we just keep going down the wrong road. Safety, infrastructure, core services and fiscal restraint are the topics of door to door contacting. The issue about closing Woodruff is still a hot and sore topic. People wonder why these decisions continue to be made and they are not included? People wonder why get farther and farther from the basics? Not rocket science — no seat at the table gets this type of poor public policy which neglects core services and gets us in debt. Regrettably, same sad sonata.
Karrie, the quote I excerpted from the PJS article indicates that the proposed Rave theater is “nothing like” the proposed museum theater; ergo, it won’t represent competition to the museum any more than any other area theater.