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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, the deal they got at the end was to pay a contractor to build a building on city land.[/quote]

doesn't the developer get to take it at the end of the lease? Or is it forever city property? I recall reading it was a fairly awful "deal"[/quote]

You're thinking of the first plan for the Ward 3 shelter in Cathedral Heights. Bowser worked out a ridiculously one-sided deal in which the developer would have built the shelter, operated it at a massive profit and then taken complete control of the land again after 20 years. The deal made no financial sense for anyone but the developer.[/quote]

Oh God yeah.  That plan was awful. Yes I mixed them up. I dont mind the placement of the new shelter , but dont love all the variances for architecture it received (pushed thru) or its ultimate design. Can we have some better design going forward? Thinking now of the Comp Plan and how it will impact hiatoric diatrict in CP...[/quote]

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