The Museum Collaboration Group doesn’t miss a single opportunity to advertise. Here they are at the 121st annual Santa Claus Parade with a banner and some little foam blocks for the kiddies.
I’m surprised the blocks didn’t have “Vote Yes!” preprinted on the other side, in anticipation of the sales tax referendum that’s due to hit our ballots in April. Perhaps they decided that would be too presumptuous, since the county board hasn’t approved the ballot question yet.
CJ – I don’t think that’s unusual. We were downtown this weekend for the Chicago Thanksgiving parade, and a lot of the museums advertised themselves. The Museum of Science and Industry had banners like that dispersed throughout the whole parade! It’s marketing, just like anything else.
Marketing would imply there was something to market… when the stupid thing doesn’t exist as yet, I think there is a more appropriate term… brainwashing. I wonder how money was spent on this little boondoggle?
I was actually surprised there wasn’t more than just the banner. If I remember, the pirate ship sponsored by Lakeview followed this, but the banner was the only thing I saw which actually said or related to the Museum. Sadly, I didn’t get a block.
Everywhere you turn, you see advertising for the potential boondoggle. No wonder they don’t have any money to build it. Who is paying for all of this? Wait. Let me check my billfold.
PI — You can have mine. 😛
I have no problem with building the block. However, I’d like to see it done right and I’m not convinced the block-head’s vision is the correct one.
I just heard on NPR a little while ago some group wants to try to outlaw direct toy advertising to children.
C’mon.
I say more power to the folks who want to market toys or the museum.
It’s still a free country isn’t it?
They must be parents that lack the backbone and ability to tell their children “no”.
Actually, I believe Peoria has been telling the Museum Group “no” for quite some time. I guess like little children, they do not get it either.
“Actually, I believe Peoria has been telling the Museum Group “no” for quite some time. I guess like little children, they do not get it either.”
Are you saying everyone in town has said no? So far the only ones that I have heard say no are about a couple dozen people on this site and a few others. That’s out of thousands of people that live in Peoria and Peoria county. Or do you speak for all of them?
Even if it gets put to a vote in the spring to raise the sales tax a quarter percent and gets voted down that still dosen’t mean the majority of “Peoria” voted the museum down, they just voted down the tax increase.
Peoriafan,
“So far the only ones that I have heard say no are about a couple dozen people on this site and a few others.”
– You must NOT be listening very carefully, or you do not get out much. Which is it?
“Even if it gets put to a vote in the spring to raise the sales tax a quarter percent and gets voted down that still doesn’t mean the majority of “Peoria” voted the museum down, they just voted down the tax increase.”
– You make about as much sense as the current museum design. Everyone I talk to echos the sentiment of the “couple dozen people on this site and a few others.” Are most people against the idea of a Peoria History Museum? No, not really. Are most people against the current Museum Group proposal [design, cost, location, etc]? I would say YES! Are most people against any kind of tax for this thing? I would say YES! Do most people fear that IF this thing is built, it will become another giant leech on the tax payers of Peoria? YES they do!
By the way…. The Museum Group as been trying to gain community support this thing for years now. WHERE IS IT ?!?!?
Once they hang Jim Richerson from the flagpole and declare they will build a new urbanist museum, THEN I’ll vote yes.
This is the most viable and valuable piece of property in the city of Peoria; are we really going to waste it on a museum-what a great location for a first class hotel and surrounding retail shops, theater, etc.; but I guess that would ruin the riverfront.
How could it possibly ruin the riverfront any more than some high rise office building that blocks the river view?
SD,
Well, I guess if you are going to ruin the riverfront anyway, you might as well put something PRODUCTIVE there……..
See?
They don’t want anything blocking the picturesque skyline of Peoria (including our homage to the WTC).
As in the new logo to be voted on by the city council next Tuesday? No total cost projections for implementation. Take the money from the logo / re-branding effort and purchase curbs for Emtronics and his neighbors! 🙂
What type of curb footage is able to be purchased for $100,000 or more?
Not enough curb footage to keep Emtronics happy 🙂