Local: Location, location, location

Peoria County Board member Merle Widmer is among those who are underwhelmed at the site selected for the spiffy new library they are building on the city’s northernmost limits:

Location, location; pedestrian friendly, kids on bikes, isn’t that what everybody says? And on really great on land that only cost $170,000 and acre. Tucked away but visible from the highway. Oh, joy. Now when visitors come into town you can take them to Wal-Mart, a destination, and Menard’s and then show them the new library on cultivated land but not similar to the grass and weeds I saw on a recent visit to Lincoln Library. or when people are taking visitors to the Shoppes they can point out the library while driving by at 80 miles per hour.

Heh.

My opinion that once the decision was made to build, especially that far north, that money was going to to a pork project anyway. So, to me, the location doesn’t matter. In that sense, it’s best they picked the cheapest site.

It would have been better had they decided to build a little bit closer to central Peoria, then closed Lakeview altogether.