A spokeswoman for San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin confirmed that the city and museum representatives are in early discussions about a site on Treasure Island, a destination in San Francisco Bay famous for a naval base.
Los Angeles is also trying to stay in the game, with Mayor Eric Garcetti saying that Lucas' project would find a good home in the heart of the movie industry.
— The L.A. Times
The lawsuit averse Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which is openly courting other cities after Chicago's Friends of the Park filed legal action to prevent the project from building on its chosen Chicago lakefront site, may wind up in San Francisco, although Los Angeles (and Waukegan, IL) have offered themselves up as well. Rahm Emanuel, who was a vocal champion of the Museum's proposed locale, recently suggested a compromise in the form of moving the museum to the Lake Michigan adjacent McCormick Place East, but no one is compromising as of yet.
The prequels to this particular saga:
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We can't afford nice things in Chicago we have to pay the mortgage Crooked Rahm saddled us with. We pay 13,000 per student but only 6-7,000 go to education the rest pays back bonds that we did not need.
I read somewhere that the museum would probably cost the city 20-25 million to build as only a set amount of the cost would be covered by private funds. Not something we can afford.
the fuss over the building on a parkland on the lakefront is a bit stupid, the parking lot is not serving the highest and best use for the park, and removing a huge amount of convention hall space would also not be a good use of funds or benefit the city economically. There are many large buildings on the east side of Lake Shore Drive this is just stupid.
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