Turtle Bay misses out on $7 million grant; park to scale down plans for museum entry
Turtle Bay Exploration Park failed to make the cut for a $7 million state grant for museum expansion.
The organization had intended the grant to fund a new main museum entrance and visitor gallery off the Sundial Bridge plaza, where foot and bike traffic is heaviest.
Turtle Bay will go ahead with those plans without the grant — but likely downscale them, spokesman Toby Osborn said Tuesday.
Turtle Bay also will press ahead with plans to build a 130-room Sheraton hotel and adjoining 80-seat restaurant on the parking lot south of the museum and just west of the Paul Bunyan Forest Camp, Osborn said.
http://www.redding.com/news/2011/apr/26/turtle-bay-misses-out-on-7-million-grant/The gist of the story is that they were planning to use public money to build a new building so that a building that was built with public money
less than 10 years ago can be turned into the lobby for a for-profit hotel that is being built to attract visitors to the convention center that's closing because the city has no money to keep it open. :banghead: