@meanjarhead A truck to haul Produce in. More details please??

@meanjarhead well yes, the downtown area has gotten a ton of money. Who do you think has a bigger influence on that, Denise Moore or the people on the horse shoe that are trying to please caterpillar?

@EyeintheSky You don't know about that? the oh my god its a food desert buy me this, buy me this, buy me this, BUY ME THIS BECAUSE YOU HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Every freakin meeting the last 2 years.

@ricardo All i know is i was downtown working with Terri the first snowfall we had It was a saturday. we went across the river to Culvers to grab food at like 9 at night there wasnt a flake of snow on the streets anywhere. We worked until 1 in the morning get home and our street is a skating rink. Why would they be pleasing CAT Execs at 1 A.M. downtown on a Sunday?

@jimthompson : Yeah. I'll pour oer nearly two years of minutes to prove your point.

@meanjarhead just doing some research, this thing was pushed by Caterpillar and passed on a 9-1 vote.
www.pjstar.com/x4147 76058/City-Council-a pproves-museum-agree ment?page=1$140 million dollar deal ($40 million from the city from sales taxes). city leases out its portion of the land for $1 per year for fifty years. this was a prime real estate downtown renovation of the sears block to the caterpillar/city museum block. their latest effort is trying to build condos on riverfront park.

@meanjarhead the hotel deal was an 8-2 vote so again not really a partisan issue. $94 million dollar deal, with $29 million coming from the city of Peoria. after interest it will cost the city $54 to $61 million because the city had to issue bonds to pay for this.www.pjstar.com/x3941 88888/City-Council-a pproves-Marriott-pro ject?page=2

You asked us to prove the 1st district got the most money and well it does.

technically it was asked whether denise got the money she asked for. The big dollar votes were done before Denise was on the City Council. Denise started in 2013. The votes for the warehouse district, the museum project, the stadium and the hotel were all done before she was elected. I find it amusing that she is being blamed for votes that she did not make, and the people who actually voted for these projects are getting a pass. lol.

@ricardo One them did get called on it and is facing FINAL judgement on a lot of issues.

@EyeintheSky i am not sure that I am following but I assume that you are talking about 2017 election. I have a second guess but it might look silly.

Can someone give me a $1 a year lease on a new restaurant that the city tax dollars funded and charges it's residents $8 to get in? I'll even serve as much Ranch dressing as one can chug.

You will never see me in the Ranch. I never could understand drown your food in that awful tasting crap. I like what food taste like not just a dressing.

@ricardo OH not silly yeah referring to Sandburg he was right up in there voting for some of this crap over the years. As I recall he was even and ground breaking for museum with shovel in hand.

@EyeintheSky that was my second guess. he was against the hotel I think.