Note: Major John Chamness of the Salvation Army sent the following after Family Phil found a Huckleberries Online post that said the Kroc Center would be built 4-5 feet above street level. In forwarding information from the project engineer to HBO, PRster Megan Beck erred in thinking that "grade level" meant "street level." The grading plan that Major Chamness gave me this spring clearly shows that the Kroc Center was to be built below street level. You can find a link to the Q&A with Megan below.
I have avoided responding to Larry's (Spencer) and others comments because all of their facts are plain wrong and I just don't have time to deal with someone who is not after the facts. In the past when we presented the facts they (he) ignored the facts and continued with their (his) campaign of misrepresentation and false allegations. They have never spoken with anyone on the design team regarding any of these issues. If somewhere Megan or Steve said this then they made a mistake. We can go back at least one year maybe two and show how the building has always been designed below the surrounding properties. The building will be 3-5 feet above the parking lot so maybe this is where this is coming from but again the building has always been designed to fit below the surrounding grade as it was to expensive to fill to the street level, additionally we wanted to hide the parking as much as we could and reduce some of the street noise to the community rooms. The plans I brought with me during our interview has these elevations to prove this. Members of our design team will be responding publically this coming Tuesday night at the city council meeting.
Major John Chamness Salvation Army
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
comments because all of their facts are plain wrong and I just don't have time to deal with someone who is not after the facts. In the past when we presented the facts they (he) ignored the facts and continued with their (his) campaign of misrepresentation and false allegations. They have never spoken with anyone on the design team regarding any of these issues. If somewhere Megan or Steve said this then they made a mistake. We can go back at least one year maybe two and show how the building has always been designed below the surrounding properties. The building will be 3-5 feet above the parking lot so maybe this is where this is coming from but again the building has always been designed to fit below the surrounding grade as it was to expensive to fill to the street level, additionally we wanted to hide the parking as much as we could and reduce some of the street noise to the community rooms. The plans I brought with me during our interview has these elevations to prove this. Members of our design team will be responding publically this coming Tuesday night at the city council meeting.
