City Council Old City Hall Study Session Live Blog Recap

The City Council just wrapped up discussion of the Old City Hall situation. I watched it on TV Tacoma and live blogged via Twitter. These are my tweets, newest first, remember to start at the bottom and work your way up to the top:

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Webb: working actively with bank to address issue of trustee sale in January. #oldcityhall. (End of OCH discussion)
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Fey: intend to keep ownership? Webb: intention in short term, want to see property through to next phase but listed for sale 2 yrs ago.
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Mayor: oddly enough piper bursting may be best thing that happened to OCH #oldcityhall
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Boe: derelict appearance at entrance to our city, big issue is the clocktower. Need to get creative and think of different avenues, partners
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Boe: City hasn't done a good job making sure that building from a public standpoint has met all of its responsibilities. #oldcityhall
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Boe: Building that has great potential, there is not a more iconic Tacoma building. #oldcityhall
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Boe: I might fill a few less potholes if we could make sure that OCH is back on all cylinders. #oldcityhall
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Someone remind me of this exchange come election time.
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Manthou: As a private developer I appreciate your effort, if people expect us to do it I'd rather fix potholes #oldcityhall
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Council Member Manthou: Just wants to thank Mr. Webb, we are limited in what we can do, sounds like he'd been addressing it from beginning
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Mayor: What was it about OCH that appealed to you? Webb: it's an incredible building... it's iconic. #oldcityhall
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Webb: Extremely difficult to repair that part of the roof, in the long term will have to work with preservation groups #oldcityhall
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Council Member: are there areas of the roof that are still problematic? Webb: historic metal copper roof has not been replaced #oldcityhall
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Webb: Initially first priority is to get fire sprinkler system active again to address fire dept concerns.
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Webb: I don't see any reason why that rumor got started. Mayor: it's Tacoma. (*cough* Luzon)
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Mayor: Is the old city hall on the verge of demolition? Webb: I don't think in any way shape or form that would be true #oldcityhall
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Webb: more to come on future uses. #oldcityhall
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"I don't have a lot to say about the long term...this does give us an opportunity to reposition the property moving forward." #oldcityhall
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Webb: progress now happening with demolition of wet materials. 45 days is time frame to have materials out of building. #oldcityhall
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Webb: unlike United Way building, hazardous materials remediation had not yet happened so didn't want to rip into walls. #oldcityhall
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Webb: owned OCH since 2005. Was in building first weekend to assess damage #oldcityhall
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George Webb is present. Is going to give update on state of building. Mayor says not a public flogging. #oldcityhall