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Nervous_Excitement81 OP t1_j9v89yy wrote

Reply to comment by Lobelliot in Taking a secret trip to Paris to plan on how to spend upwards of $30 million on a Museum is awesome, who wants to spend that money to improve PATH service or build better infrastructure. by Nervous_Excitement81

I get what you're saying here but when JC has like 1000 problems, spending that much money on a museum seems absurd but that's just my opinion.

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Lobelliot t1_j9v8jce wrote

I definitely don't disagree. There are certainly far more issues that could be dealt with (I've learned about MOST of them since moving outside of downtown JC) but nothing wrong with a good investment in culture to ultimately enrich the city

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jerseycityfrankie t1_j9vpir1 wrote

In context though: Journal Square has been ignored by the city. Anything the city should be on top of has been ignored and is now a hot mess. Throwing a fancy French Art Museum on the problem is exactly like putting up an astonishingly expensive beautiful marble sculpture to help put out a forest fire.

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Lobelliot t1_j9vtvxp wrote

All valid points! And certainly troubling that there is so much secrecy around the trip and who is funding/why only certain council members were invited

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JournalSquire t1_j9wpv7z wrote

Agreed. Why the secrecy? Only further undermines public trust. Now I want to know who really is bankrolling this trip and what’s their agenda?

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