Fun Embassy fact of the day


What’s in a name? For some people lately, anything with “Embassy” will smell equally foul.

No, that’s not fair. Few people are against Embassy Square. It’s a bold project, and most of us would love to see it thrive.

But the Embassy project is the whipping boy for anyone who thinks the city’s priorities are out of whack. If you listen to enough people with a cause around here, you’ll hear a lot of “I’m all for the Embassy project, but …” followed by whatever that particular person thinks is more worthy than Embassy Square.

What was funny Monday was that three different people with three different priorities at three different meetings at the Municipal Building used that formula — Mike Hicks at a Public Utilities Committee meeting, referring to the proposed 20-million-gallon-per-day expansion of the water plant; Terry Moore at the Speak Up Henderson forum, pushing for renovation of the armory as a youth club; and James Green, citing the woeful condition of neighborhoods a few blocks from the Embassy — and all called it “Embassy Block.”

Almost two years after the project was upgraded from a mundane “block” to a classy “square,” and little more than a week from the construction celebration ceremony, and the name still hasn’t stuck. That can’t be good for fund raising. investor loan 100amazing loanscash loan easy advancecredit secured loan adverse ukrural alabama loans propertyloan 403b terms100 loan construction ltv2nd colorado loans combobusiness loans 100loans access student