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In November 2022, City Council voted to hire Stantec Consulting Services at a cost of $1,321,785 to conduct a feasibility study for the construction of a downtown deck plaza over Interstate 10. The study was completed some months later.
Tracy Yellen, CEO of the Paso del Norte Community Foundation and chief proponent of the project, has been telling our City and County that a five-block, 8.5-acre deck plaza will cost only $207 million. Her figure has been repeated with numbing regularity by our feckless media.
We filed a public information request with the City and fought hard until we finally obtained a copy of the closed-door presentation Stantec made to Mayor Leeser. It took pliers and a blow torch to wrench the PowerPoint from the talons of the City bureaucrats.
Page 10 clearly projects a total cost of $412,025,231 for the Deck Plaza.
Any government official or elitist non-profit that tells us otherwise is lying outright.
Any questions?
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