Jadetxag10 said:
What is going on with the new movie theater construction at Midtown Park? It doesn't look like there has been any activity there in a while.
City seems to have finally finished the work on the lakeshore in that area within the last few weeks.
I find it telling that in the article about the closed city council session to discuss the movie place, the city guy insisted the lake work wasn't behind schedule because they had to wait for permits. It is absolutely true that they need permits and those can take forever, and I don't fault the construction guys for that delay. But interesting that it came up in the context of the movie place.
Seems to me if you timeline a project on the assumption something will get done at a certain point in time, then that gets pushed back due to permitting, then lots of the project gets delayed. I just don't see how you can open the facility with active construction on the lake shore, so it makes sense to me to get to a stopping point and then put everything on hold. The downside is that once the lakeshore stuff is done, it might take a few months to get back on the trades people's schedule.