Nervous_Excitement81

Nervous_Excitement81 OP t1_ja0n9aa wrote

Reply to comment by JournalSquire in Taking a secret trip to Paris to plan on how to spend upwards of $30 million on a Museum is awesome, who wants to spend that money to improve PATH service or build better infrastructure. by Nervous_Excitement81

Yeah JC which is us footing the bill for this stupid museum.

"In exchange for access to the Pompidou’s expertise and 120,000 artworks, the city has agreed to shoulder renovation costs that could exceed $40 million. It’s also on the hook for another $6 million annually* over the course of its five-year contract to cover project development, branding, educational programming, and the organization of exhibitions. Fulop told Curbed that his administration is also looking to purchase an adjoining property, which could roughly double the size of the Pompidou. No cost was given for the proposed expansion.

But some longtime residents and local legislators have balked at the price. “Everyone agrees that the Pompidou is an extraordinary asset for Jersey City,” said Rolando Lavarro, a city councilman. “But we just raised a levy on homeowners because we didn’t have the money for school funding. How can we then bring more financial debt to the table for a museum?” He, like other city officials, only learned of the news through an announcement in the New York Times. For Lavarro, the decision to announce the new museum without any discussion with the City Council looked like a tactic to drum up public support for the project before its costs could be scrutinized"

https://www.curbed.com/2021/06/why-pompidou-outpost-jersey-city.html

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Nervous_Excitement81 OP t1_j9v794h wrote

Reply to Taking a secret trip to Paris to plan on how to spend upwards of $30 million on a Museum is awesome, who wants to spend that money to improve PATH service or build better infrastructure. by Nervous_Excitement81

I understand PATH is owned by Port Authority and not local JC government but you get my point. JSQ area is falling apart, repaving some of those roads would be a very good use of that money.

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