ArtSpace may get property via ECC swap
13 July 2010
RS
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Here’s an update on the Elgin ArtSpace via BocaJump:
As the city draws plans to redevelop the land, 15 acres of the newly accessible real estate is slotted for ECC. This could potentially allow them to unify their campus, which is split between the main portion off of McLean, and the Fountain Square campus downtown. With the new acreage, ECC could move the facilities at Fountain Square to its main campus, and the city would take ownership of the land in the center of town.
With a change in ownership Fountain Square Campus would be renovated to suit the Art Space project, wherein the the space would be retooled to create housing and studio space within which artists could live and work at a much lower monthly rate.
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This is a good news for ECC, and generally what is good for ECC is good for Elgin. If nothing else, it will get the City’s hands off the old Spartan Meadows property and keep the city hall crowd from raping that open land with some ridiculous tax-sucking scheme like a multi-million dollar professional softball stadium.
And “ArtSpace”? Another boondoggle sucking up scarce public money to bring more people into Elgin who can’t support themselves. When will Elgin stop giving away public money for will o’ the wisp schemes always promising some return way, way down the road? (Answer: when the Des Plaines casino fires up.)
If the city wants to subsidize Montmarte On The Fox for “artists” who can’t support themselves, why not close up the PADS facility out by ECC, give its “clients” some pencils, call them “artists,” and house them in the former Roadhouse? These residents would likely be better behaved - and scarcely less affluent - than what the Roadhouse pulled into Elgin. Is the DNA is afraid they’d spread TB?
Would love to hear your thoughts on your buddy Kaptain running for mayor, rm. Apparently, he couldn’t stop the Walmart/Sam’s club development from locating in Elgin but did get his next best victory in hobbling Walmart with reduced store size. No word yet on his brick paver parking lot idea for Walmart (but not City of Elgin parking lots).
Humorous too, on Kaptain indirectly blaming his city government for the demise of the Roadhouse by not moving quickly enough on DNA recommendation of soundproofing such venues (via taxpayer subsidized money, absolutely no doubt given demise caused by lack of money, not lack of noise!).