LeMay Moving Ahead
The News Tribune reported over the weekend that the Lemay Museum’s Board of Directors has decided to begin the permitting process on their long-discussed project. Its capital campaign is 87% complete with just $8 million to go. With that, they’ll be moving ahead to close on the Tacoma Dome parking lot site and prepare to approve a groundbreaking at their May 8th meeting.
Cars. You do remember cars, right?
Link to The News Tribune
Link to LemayMuseum.org
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9 comments
J Jesse January 21, 2009
This is better than fantastic news. Way to go LeMay!!
R RR Anderson January 21, 2009
LeMay Museum is going to be the most expensive parking garage ever in the history of Tacoma. Will they build a parking garage so you can drive down and visit the fancy parking garage full of LeMay’s smelly old cars?
Will they display LeMay’s sausage press collection? I hope so. People need to know the full extent of his insanity.
J J. Cote January 21, 2009
A question that I ask everytime a building is put up in the downtown area: If they take away the Dome parking lot, then where are all those concert/monster truck/wrestlemania fans going to park for their Dome events?
I’ll be the first to admit that parking lots are a terrible waste of space, but we are a driving society and they are a necessary evil. Where will everyone park if the Dome and the museum should have events at the same time. I see a huge nightmare in the making.
C cy January 21, 2009
Actually, the meat grinders are pretty interesting when put in the context of the automobile industry. There are hundreds of ways to solve one problem, but in the end they, well, all grind meat. Car history is the same way. I don’t think there was anything “insane” about it.
M Mofo from the Hood January 21, 2009
Build on the vacant lots. Don’t build on the vacant lots. Make a decision. Every week the same problem in various forums comes up and the only consistency is the unresolved commitment to a position.
For every person that thinks cars are the issue and the cause of everything wrong in the history of western society, maybe you should enlighten the rest of us with tales of progress from Amish history or Tibet or your favorite Marxist community.
J Jesse January 21, 2009
Cities should be built for people, not cars. That’s why Europe has some of (most of)the best cities in the world.
N Nick January 21, 2009
Soo . . . does this mean the museum is meeting its parking requirement by simply coming into existence? I smell a loophole! ;-)
I can see it now, “Tacoma, City of Car Museums!”
R RR Anderson January 21, 2009
couldn’t we save the taxpayers some money and just rename univeristy place the “lemay car museum” a visionary location dedicated to america’s automobile deathgrip?
T tresssie January 26, 2009
Gaak! the mess of cars in d’hood is maddening when there’s an event…one reason I’m moving…and Just In Time too!