Suddenly we're talking about renovating Union Station.
Here's a QCTimes article about it, and here's the QCTimes posting of a preliminary draft of the plan.
(Image from last summer)
I try to pay a decent amount of attention to goings-on in downtown Davenport, but I didn't even know we were studying Union Station. RDA paid for the study, so maybe they'll pay for the renovations too. It is in the casino's front yard, after all.
This little tidbit is included in the plan: "Create an events area (between the station and boiler house) and implement the first phase of a weekday public market and other special events." I'm not sure if that means much or not, but it almost sounds like it could be a scaled back version of the public market. Or I could be way off. Maybe I'll just check the Levee Improvement Commission's website... if only it was more than 1 page.
I'm working on a post about how Davenport is trying to include more public input in things, so hopefully this project can lead the way by involving an abundance of community input.
2 comments:
I think that Davenport has done a great job encouraging public input. The problem is that only a small precent of the citizens participate in the input sessions. The rest wait until the work is done and then complain.
I generally agree. RiverVision is the main example of that to me. Some of the meetings had over 100 people at them, and they were pretty excited about the proposed projects.
I still remember whoever said "whichever part we start first, lets get started NOW" and got pretty loud applause. The only thing people seemed opposed to at those meetings was how the casino hotel was slipped into the plan at the last minute.
Yet when Davenport starts talking about Centennial Park and the Freight House Market, people freak out. Seems to me that they should have let their concerns be known at the RiverVision meetings.
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