The Journal Star reports the latest plan to generate excitement about the proposed downtown museum that’s been languishing for about four years now:
Panels of the construction fence around the property, recently rebuilt and painted solid black, are being painted anew with slogans that are intended to educate the public about what’s going to be inside the museum and Cat visitor’s center…. Officials hope the signs will attract riverfront and Downtown visitors to the site and increase awareness of the project.
Slogans will include, “Play it again, Peoria” to promote the history portion of the museum, “They Had a Dream” to promote the African American Hall of Fame, and “Hang With the Stars” to promote Lakeview’s planetarium.
Here now are the top ten rejected slogans for the museum square fence:
10. “Shhhh — We’re still in the ‘quiet phase’ of fundraising”
9. “The only ‘Lake View’ here is one block east”
8. “Welcome to the ExploraFence!”
7. “Either you cough up the $40 million or this becomes a permanent surface lot. What’ll it be, people?”
6. “Used Cars For Sale”
5. “Due to escalating construction costs, patrons for the planetarium show now have to sit outside at night and look at actual stars”
4. “Look at the bright side — this block already looks better than Riverfront Village”
3. Number 3 eliminated last year when museum was reduced from 110,000 to 81,000 square feet.
2. “So far, we only have enough money to put up this fence”
1. “Coming soon: Higher Taxes!”
Bill and P.I.: I love your sites and look forward to reading them on a daily basis, but could you please change whatever it is that causes these periodic error messages?
How about just copying whatever the Chronicle uses?
Good post by CJ on the museum « City without a Subway,
If [and I mean a BIG IF!] there was ever any support for this museum project, it vanished not long after the Lakeview board took over the entire project.
Many people, C.J. included, supported the development of ‘a’ museum. The basic problem with this project is that the wrong people were pushing the wrong museum project. If a company is going bankrupt, what do you do? You fire the CEO [then pay him or her 1 billion dollars]!!! Seriously, if this project has stalled in everyway from the beginning, why do we have the same old board pushing the same old project?
The fence was supposed to be taken care of by CAT but recently the city changed the deal and are taking care of the fence so they painted it black although it should be red cause it is another expense they cannot afford. How come no one is reporting these deals probably because they are all inside deals. Find out how much these things are costing when Scroggins keeps warning them for six months they are in trouble.
Anyone read the paper this morning? All I can say is better get out there and vote when the time comes!!!!
I shudder to think this wave of Peoria County voters are going to be FORCED to foot the bill for this……crap.?.?