New redevelopment agreement published for museum

Karen McDonald reports that “The first meeting of the Peoria County Riverfront Museum Committee has been scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Friday on the fourth floor of the Peoria County Courthouse.” The agenda packet was posted to the County’s website just before 2:30 Wednesday afternoon — barely meeting the deadline set by the Open Meetings Act.

That gives the public just 48 hours to review the 348-page document which includes:

  • Bid Letting for the Riverfront Museum Parking Deck
  • Engineering Agreements for Construction oversight and materials testing to construct the Riverfront Museum Parking Deck
  • Redevelopment Agreement
  • Lease Operating Agreement
  • Design Concepts

I guess museum committee members have their reading assignments for today, as do local news reporters. Of course, its adoption is a fait accompli, at least for the County. The big question now is whether the City will approve it. I’ll have more on this after I get a chance to review the documents. If you have the time and inclination to read it today (due to, say, insomnia or masochism), please leave your observations in the comments section.

3 thoughts on “New redevelopment agreement published for museum”

  1. How can they let a bid for the parking deck when they don’t hold title for the land? The COP still has it right?

  2. Read pages 192-193, part of “The White Oak Plan”, specifically on page 192, the paragraph which begins, “As of this writing, negotiations are….” (it won’t allow me to C&P), and the next. The plan is dated June 30, 2010. Basically says they STILL don’t have a contract with IMAX. Further, it admits that if the PRM must go with an “alternate vendor”,it “will result in significantly lower attendance”.
    Also read “Key Assumptions” (pages 201-203), specifically item #6. Looks like PRM wants to severly limit the showing of first-run movies in favor of more “classic” flicks. Yup, that’s what folks were voting for!

  3. The PRM through Chairman and County Board Member, Steve Morris, held a press conference regarding this document at noon today at the CourtHouse. As a board member, I received and email dated 10:16 today.

    Interesting.

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