I wish I would have had time to go to the CDA meeting yesterday, but I had to stay at work. However, this can’t be good.
So, now, we don’t have financing for the project in place as required which technically means that the project should be dead. We don’t have an architect. And we have to meet deadlines for WHEDA. None of this can be good news. Development is a type of thing that doesn’t always go smoothly, there are always things that come up that can’t be anticipated, but with experience, you get better at it and better at responding to the bumps. In this case, since our staff have little to no experience, I wonder how much staff time is going into this and what isn’t getting done as a result? And at what point we decide we need to do something different? And how much this will end up costing us? And can we get the CDA to pay for all that staff time?
This is the kind of thing that if you think about it too long, you get this horrible feeling in the pit of your stomach. I didn’t vote for this disaster, but I still have a feeling of responsibility as an elected official and it really feels like someone needs to stop this trainwreck. But its hard to do anything without good information. Ugh. I need something more than architects who “might be able to” work within our budget and “hope” that switching architects won’t slow down the project.
