Weird Coincidence
Last week Thursday, when the Common Council Economic Development Committee met to discuss preparing a request for proposals for the Dunn building on our waterfront, Bill Roehr, of TGW Consultants, who will be drafting the RFP, brought with him as an example of what an RFP should be, one that has written in 2011 for the redevelopment of Monument Square in Troy.
Coincidentally, earlier this week, WAMC reported on the current state of redevelopment plans for Monument Square: "After the failure of three development proposals and two builders, the city is turning to its residents to offer up what they'd like to see on the River Street site." You can hear or read the entire story here: "Troy Taking Input on Downtown Development."
In the report, the mayor of Troy, Patrick Madden says of Monument Square, "This is a very important site in the downtown. What we do there will have a significant impact beyond our lives." The same can be and has been said of the Dunn building and the adjacent four acres along Water Street. Why is no special effort, beyond a public hearing on the draft RFP, being made to gather public input about its development?
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I listened to the same report on WAMC and thought the same thing: Why isn't that possible here?
ReplyDeleteAnswer: because it's not.
Not sure if this is "weird coincidence" or simply common sense rearing its ugly head. Some of us even anticipated this strange happening in the last Dunn story: http://gossipsofrivertown.blogspot.com/2016/08/git-er-dunn.html#comment-form --peter meyer
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