Master plan for Navy Pier to be revealed
June 30, 2011
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A key project for Navy Pier is to be unveiled Thursday morning, predicted children’s museum in Chicago is not only remain as an anchor, but also to expand there, according to sources familiar with the planning process.
The museum was in talks with management the Navy Pier opportunity to stay at tourist spot Lake since the beginning of this year, and its inclusion in the plan seems farther away from the establishment of a previous plan to move Grant Park.
A final agreement was not reached earlier this week, sources said.
A museum spokeswoman declined to comment Wednesday afternoon, but according to a statement Thursday it would, after the dock master plan was officially presented.
The plan also includes a significant expansion of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where the construction of a building typically form new, more green space and to update the scenery, restaurants and more retail to improve the supply, the sources said.
The expansion of the theater could include the addition of a facility of 950 seats to its current 500-seat theater and 200 seats, which could have the space occupied by neighboring underutilized step Wharf Skyline Cirque Shanghai at home in the summer months.
The platform will be launched plans for a day before the complex movements of private management of public entertainment. Pier 3000 feet will be leased at no cost to the Navy Pier, Inc., a nonprofit organization to govern and manage new installation. The plans are intended as a guide to the new address.
Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, the state agency in the city, which owns and operates the platform, hopes to channel some $ 50 million to nonprofit organizations to help with capital improvements.
Authority officials declined to comment before the presentation, which must occur in a joint meeting of the authority and the new nonprofit. However, an advisory committee meeting said the plan is designed to increase attendance throughout the year and at night and create more imaginative public spaces.
It seems that the framework plan to use a number of ideas last year in Washington, DC, Urban Land Institute, a group mainly for developers.
One possibility discussed later, a giant Ferris wheel, it seems unlikely due to cost and how much space it would take, according to sources.
The spring, reborn in 1995 after a $ 200 million renovation, is the first most visited tourist destination in the central region, which offers rides, restaurants, shops and lake cruises.
On Friday, the authority, known as the MCPI, it also changes the management of McCormick Place, a private operator.
SMG, which manages stadiums, arenas and convention centers, will run daily operations at the exhibition complex in a five-year contract requires an annual fee of $ 450 000 with the possibility of a another $ 450,000 if it meets the objective of creating revenue, reduce costs and satisfy customers.
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