There has been “press” to relocate the [North Museum] to the soon to be empty Bulova Building on Lancaster Square…
The city is already burdened with 25% of properties within it’s limits as nonprofit …
Yes, they may argue it brings in secondary “benefits” (a claim F&M waves in everyone’s face about there own existence), but why waste valuable DOWNTOWN footage?
Send the city’s brilliant leaders out into the world and find a real winner – one who will not only bring in revenues but pay it’s fair share of taxes. (Bus loads of school children don’t shop or dine downtown).
Granted the Bulova Building is a dog – always was, even before they bricked up the storefront windows. The city needs to be more creative in their solutions.
As for F&M and their re-utilization of the site of the albeit aged facility, that’s great. Relocate the perported non-profit North Museum in a not for profit location, say the county accuired Armstrong Building across the “square” in the mostly underutilized facility. It answers the concept of clustering “musea” in a chain starting at RRTA (Art Museum) to The Heritage Museum on Penn Square.
