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While feather were ruffled at last year's Gap/Don Fisher/Presidio Museum/no bowling alley plan meeting thingy, this year things were a bit calmer. According to SFCItizen, the new plans for the Fisherization of the Presidio were released last night, and he scored an early look. Some highlights: The "white box" is no more, the Lodge (i.e., a “massive hotel”) is stuck in the middle of it all, the Walt Disney Family Museum (isn't "family" implied?) will boggle the mind, and more. The bowling alley, as most of you know by now, will be yet another memory of San Francisco past.
But what will the museum look like, you ask? Who knows. We know the locations, the height, the color of the roof (green, to match the green lawns around it) of the proposed CAMP buildings but we have no idea what it will look like. According to Fog City Journal, Don Fisher's Ground Floor Public Affairs consultant AlexTourk gave the secret plans for the CAMP museum proposal to SF Chronicle's John King. And only to King. Presumably, the architect scribe is sitting on them, waiting to pump his golden ejaculate over the museum plans for a glowing review, which should come out today or Sunday.
Other media folks are pissed about this situation. But we look forward to King's take on the new Presidio museum,. which we plan on visiting two times at the most.
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Chorn!
Alex Tourk? I'm sure he'll resist any urges to steamroll Gavin.
AT is perfectly civil to GN if it helps his own career.
The Walt Disney Family Museum is a museum dedicated to and about the Disney family not the Disney corp, and is already midway through it's building renovations. It is set to be opened sometime this year.
Also even without the Fisher Museum the bowling alley will be razed, as are a bunch of other buildings such as the main office of the Presidio Trust (where the lodge is).
Ohh, I can't wait to see the exhibition on his anti-semitism!
That and Fantasia!
Something tells me that will be much like the Ford and Lindbergh Museum's version...
For the record: John King is the second-smartest person writing for the Chronicle. (He's second only to Asmussen.) Even when he's wrong, he's interesting. IMHO.
Your next article on this really must be called "Notes on CAMP."