Museum's urge to move about the money

"At Navy Pier the museum would be required to pay rent of $1 per year, plus $5 per square foot operating expense, yearly, with adjustments for cost of living. Moving to Grant Park would allow it to save $300,000 annual rent and, in addition, qualify for a $1 million museum grant. So the museum will gain $1.3 million per year with the move, paid entirely by city residents, whose taxes fund Navy Pier as well as the Chicago Park District."

http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/letters/593243,CST-EDT-vox08a.article

It still baffles me as to why they wanted to try to locate at the Daley Bi Plaza again after last year... they must be baffled themselves about who made the decision to push for this contentious location and wasted so much of their time and effort this year and who should get fired.

By the way, wouldn't they get the same benefits by moving to the Museum Campus or Northerly Island?

Eric