I don't care whether you believe me or not; the presentation I attended did not
make any mention of a building.
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 20:21:10 -0400
Subject: Re: [UC] UCD is innocent
From: briansi...@gmail.com
CC: univcity@list.purple.com
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Karen Allen <kallena...@msn.com> wrote:
That's absolutely true: Penn sent a representative to a Cedar Park Neighbors
board meeting in 2005 or '06 (somewhere in there) and the woman told us that
Penn was going to "trade" the island where a gas station had been (closer to
the VA hospital, where Baltimore and Woodland branched) to the City in exchange
for closing the roadbed of Baltimore Avenue where it intersected 38th St,
directly alongside the Vet School. She said they were doing it to reconfigure
the intersection to improve traffic flow. Nothing was ever said about wanting
the roadway of Baltimore Avenue to build a building; I only learned that well
after the fact, and not from anyone connected with Penn.
Strictly speaking, the roadbed doesn't have a building on it. It's a pedestrian
sidewalk between the old and new Vet buildings.
But I simply cannot believe that Karen's reporting this accurately. What did
she think-- that the project was _just_ a road reconfiguration? Didn't people
see the announcements, the artists' conceptions, the maps, the website? I sure
did. It was _always_ to accommodate a new Vet building. Artists' conceptions
were always part of the presentations. Every presentation I saw, every web
site, every announcement, said that a new Vet building was going up. This bit
about 'they told us it was for traffic flow" is hard to believe.
What is Karen saying-- that they kept a _whole building project_ as a _secret_?
