ABOVE: Completely arbitrary (and therefor as accurate as any other presented) artist's depiction of planned Fountains of Franklin retail development.
The long-languishing Fountains of Franklin development site faces a foreclosure suit.
The history of this project is, frankly, the stuff of reality TV, complete with "evil developers," a call for an alderman's resignation, sudden city "forgetfulness" regarding zoning, selective enforcement of ordinances, accusations of preferential treatment of developers whose names begin with "C" and end with "arstensen," incriminating spy photos, a comically-perturbed local blogger, startling new definitions for the term "upscale," and, finally, time travel.
That's why this project is a perfect case study for the new Mayoral Ad Hoc Development Process Review Committee, which was created, after all, to untangle the development process in Franklin.
So: I triple dog dare the Mayoral Ad Hoc Development Process Review Committee to look carefully at the development process as followed in the case of Fountains of Franklin. I submit that we would learn more in diagramming the twists and turns in that single debacle than in the pages of any expensively commissioned report.
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