The fallout from Brewster McCracken spilling the refried beans on the Congress Avenue Business Retention and Enhancement Fund, aka the Migas Slush Bucket, continues, with Sarah Coppola’s reporting in today’s Statesman. Reading it, and having caught a replay of last week’s council meeting last night while Chronic cooked his frozen pizza in the oven (yes, it’s really as sad as it sounds), Will Wynn definitely, albeit obliquely, referred to the alley vacation. It was kind of swallowed up whole on our first listen, buried in descriptors of the merits of the project, but here’s the relevant passage:
“But the project would not happen without the cooperation of adjacent property owners, in part because there’s going to be an alley vacation. Alley vacations require the consent of adjacent property owners. Las Manitas at their new location, the corner of Third and Congress, will be consenting to that cooperation to allow this product to even be built. So had we done nothing, more than likely, this project doesn’t happen.”
This article appears in June 15 • 2007.