There’s just no urgency or accountability.
“If it’s going to be done, it’s got to be done right” is a fair quote to explain delays after 12 months if you’re renovating the entire park.
We’re fixing the fountain, and the park has been closed for almost three and a half years.
I walk and drive by that fountain multiple times a day, and if any significant work on the damn thing has taken place in the last year plus, I haven’t seen it.
“There was a slight delay with the audio equipment” doesn’t cut it when the fountain has been operational now for over a year.
It’s the same bullshit as the shared used path.
Taxpayer funded public space held hostage for YEARS by lax or inept project management who genuinely don’t seem to care if citizens have to wait for months or even years on end to regain access to shared public spaces.
If any of us routinely missed our deadlines at work by years, we’d be fired on the spot.
It’s what really concerns me about both JWJ and Riverfront Plaza. We close perfectly serviceable public spaces before we have a clear, concrete plan about how to renovate and reopen them to the public as swiftly as possible.
