Posted on 05/02/2017 7:42:54 AM PDT by simpson96
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will unveil a conceptual model of the former president's library and museum during a community meeting in Chicago on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the foundation's plans.
A three-dimensional model of Obama Presidential Center will be shown during the midday event at the South Shore Cultural Center, the source said. The model will offer the first look at the complex in Jackson Park, which is viewed as a potential driver of economic revitalization on the South Side.
On Monday, the nonprofit Obama Foundation released a few details about Wednesday's event, including that Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the president's first White House chief of staff, will be on hand.
The foundation billed the gathering as a event with community leaders. The former president will host a roundtable discussion at the event to give an update on the center and hear directly from community members on their ideas for it, the foundation said.
Husband-and-wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien of New York will also attend Wednesday's event. The future Presidential Center is expected to open in Jackson Park in 2021 at a cost of at least $500 million.
"More than a building or a museum, the Obama Presidential Center will be a working center for civic engagement and a place to inspire people and communities to create change," the foundation said in Monday's announcement.
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a potential driver of economic revitalization on the South Side.
Will they be selling fried chicken?
Half a billion dollars?
Ooooh, someone gonna make some monae!
Hint. It won’t be the community.
Whatever. No matter what form or guise the museum takes, there will not be one shred of truth expressed in it.
It will be a self-serving testament to faux diversity and the rest will be all about sealed documents.
Yep, makes you wonder, why are they putting it in a bad neighborhood??
The National Center for Socialist Failure... featuring the man-child from Chicago...
Obamas to unveil model of presidential center...
A hole in the side of a mountain with whitewashed walls. Appropriate.
Building it in Chicago?
I thought for sure it would be located in Kogelo, Kenya, his home town.
Obama Returns To Kenya, Reunites With Father’s Family
http://nypost.com/2015/07/24/obama-returns-to-kenya-reunites-with-fathers-family/
Oh. So, it'll be a mosque.
Best place for a Madrassa
Best place to recruit revolutionaries.
Kind of like those dual chain fast food places where you can order either burgers or burritos.
AT LEAST 500 million dollars.
Watch. This will be one project that gets completed on time but the cost overruns will still occur.
Uhhhhhh...a question from the back of the FEMA Re-education Camp? Why would the South Side be in need of economic revitalization?
I'll take my answer from the loudspeakers as I see myself to the delousing showers.
Just a few differences.....
Yep, makes you wonder, why are they putting it in a bad neighborhood??
So the thugs, gang bangers, prostitutes,drug dealers All have a Safe Space to practice their chosen profession without having to Travel outside the neighborhood.
Yep , it has to look like a Mosque
AT LEAST 500 million dollars.
Watch. This will be one project that gets completed on time but the cost overruns will still occur.
You can bet Obama will be skimming money from this project just like he did from government grants back when he was a Community Organizer communist agitator in Chicago before Bill Ayers got him to run for public office.
Only the lucky few will be able to visit the Down-Low Spa buried deep below in a sub-sub basement.
I’m guessing the real BC and college records won’t be on display.
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