Board of Aldermen 10-13-2020 Page 26
President Wilshire
| don’t know...
Alderman Lopez
| think you were at that meeting.
Alderwoman Lu
Pardon me?
President Wilshire
December 15" is the date we have to close for the New Market Tax Credits or we won’t get them this time
around.
Alderwoman Lu
Great, thank you.
Alderman Dowd
Also, Director Cummings is on if you’d like to get some input from him, President Wilshire.
President Wilshire
Director Cummings did you want to add something to that?
Tim Cummings, Director of Economic Development
No, Madam Chair, | believe you’ve covered it with the responses.
President Wilshire
Alderman O’Brien.
Alderman O’Brien
If | may? Thank you, | did have my hand up you may have perhaps not seen it.
President Wilshire
Well there are a lot of people on it’s hard to see everybody, if you raise your hand ...
(Overlapping speaking)
Alderman O’Brien
But thank you, Madam President for recognizing me. | would like to echo basically and to be brief exactly
what relayed to be Alderman Dowd and although | agree with some previous speakers who said there is a
pending traffic study. But one thing we’ve always heard with this particular project of the Performing Arts
Center and we all heard it, parking, parking and parking. And yes, we did make commitments in the
neighborhood and particularly with this developer to increase parking. But putting in additional parking yes
it's relatively close to a parking garage but if there’s one thing — if we are going to get the people, which |
