WTC bids heard today

This morning there will be a meeting of the committee tasked with choosing from among the bids on developing the WTC site; the dormant building on what everyone agrees is the most valuable piece of land in the city.  The committee looks to be stacked with Mitch allies and Mitch has publicly spoken with some favor for the Tricentennial Consortium's big knock-it-down-and-build-a-giant-napkin-ring plan so it seems therein lies an advantage. But then Jindal just vetoed the Convention Center funding that plan was hoping for so it's no longer so obvious a choice. They always have the option of doing nothing.

Gatehouse Capital's  astroturf group, "Save the WTC" will hold a rally at City Hall prior to the meeting. Eggler writes something confusing about that here.

Meanwhile, the second private development group, led by Gatehouse Capital Corp. of Dallas, announced it would continue its recent "Save the WTC" campaign with a rally outside City Hall an hour before the evaluation committee meets. The goal of saving the 1960s modernist-style landmark has been endorsed in recent days by the Louisiana Landmarks Society and the Preservation Resource Center.

At first glance, one would might infer from that paragraph those two groups have specifically endorsed Gatehouse's bid.  But they've only endorsed saving the building which is also what the Burch group proposes.

Honestly, though, I can't decide what should happen with WTC. I suspect the building needs to be demolished but I could be convinced otherwise. I don't agree that it's an indispensable architectural fixture but I don't think it's an eyesore or anything either. I know it has sat idle for a long long time so the sudden confidence of these two developers seems optimistic.

So I'm indifferent about the building, really. But the three groups bidding on the job are all terrible. I think the Tricentennial Consortium is probably the most terrible but only slightly. In any case, I don't get why anyone would enthusiastically back any of the proposals as they are now.  At least not until we get one to throw in that trans-Mississippi monorail we've all been waiting for.