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Originally Posted by wierdaaron
There might be debate over whether a George Lucas museum would really be all that "public use". Sure it'd be open to the public, but so is a Starbucks. I don't know if a museum dedicated to a private interest is all that public. Would a Motorola Museum qualify for public use? A JP Morgan Chase Financial Planning Awareness Museum?
Just because there's big bags of cash being thrown around and the word museum is involved, it doesn't mean we should start giving away waterfront land to movie memorabilia warehouses.
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To be fair, the Lucas Museum is more than a collection of Star Wars tchotchke.
Has Lucas even mentioned how much space he may need if he locates the museum in Chicago? I ask because looking at the
presentation Lucas made for the Presidio site, the entire museum would have been 93,000-97,000 square feet total, which would fill about a third of one floor at Lakeside Center. I don't know whether the guidelines put in place by the Presidio Trust dictated the facility's size, or whether that's all the square footage Lucas really needs.