Asia Pacific Cultural Center - APCC Budget and Soil Testing

A quick note on the Asia Pacific Cultural Center:

According to last week’s City Manager’s report to the Council, the City and the APCC are moving forward with their respective portions of the agreement to take a year to explore the possibility of building the center on the vacant City-owned blocks at 21st and Jefferson, just uphill from the UWT campus. The APCC 2010 financial review is in, and was submitted to the Council at last week’s study session.

The numbers listed in the APCC budget documents (pdf) don’t look on their own like those of a group about to start a $100 million construction project, but the APCC has said from the start that they would be undertaking a capital campaign and working with other groups to make the project a reality. More information is available in the City Manager’s Report (pdf).

The City, for its part, is moving forward with assessing the magnitude and expense of soil clean-up in the proposed location. Notice has been mailed to neighboring property owners, and soil testing is scheduled to begin this week (although they may want to wait until things have thawed out a little).

Previously on Exit133: Asia Pacific Cultural Center Project Update, and Asia Pacific Cultural Center – Constructing a Dream.