ANIMATORS LOSE MUSEUM RIGHTS.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer GLENDALE - The city redevelopment agency on Tuesday terminated a two-year-old deal giving a group of animation professionals exclusive rights to transform a vacant building into an animation museum. The agency, citing inadequate fundraising
The agency said another tenant will be sought for the site, which has been vacant since 2001. Agency member Bob Yousefian, who had expressed skepticism skepticism (skĕp`tĭsĭzəm) [Gr.,=to reflect], philosophic position holding that the possibility of knowledge is limited either because of the limitations of the mind or because of the inaccessibility of its object. in December about the group's ability to raise money, said it was time to move on. ``You have a piece of property that sits there, dilapidates and falls apart. Talk is cheap. Show me the money. We have given an exclusive to an organization ... and they just don't have the backing, and good ideas with no backing go nowhere,'' Yousefian said. ``I think you have a fiduciary fiduciary (fĭd  `shēĕ'rē), in law, a person who is obliged to discharge faithfully a responsibility of trust toward another. responsibility to the public to put it out there and see what we get.'' Frank Gladstone, a spokesman for the Animation Initiative, said the group has applied for a $5 million state grant for the project and is still interested in the space. ``The grant is still pending and we don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. when it's going to be (awarded),'' he said. ``For things like this that require private moneys or not-for-profit monies, it takes a while to do.'' Agency members Frank Quintero and Rafi Manoukian Rafi Manoukian is a former member of the city council in Glendale, California. He was recently notified that he has been selected by the Board of Directors and the Selection Committee of the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) as a recipient of the 2006 Ellis Island cast the dissenting dis·sent intr.v. dis·sent·ed, dis·sent·ing, dis·sents 1. To differ in opinion or feeling; disagree. 2. To withhold assent or approval. n. 1. votes, saying they wanted to grant the group an extension. But the majority of the agency said it wanted to consider the broadest range of options for the three-story, 66,500-square-foot building - including possibly converting it into housing, retail or a cultural center. ``We're not against the animation museum,'' redevelopment agency Chairman Dave Weaver
The Weavers are small passerine birds related to the finches. These are seed-eating birds with rounded conical bills, most of which breed in sub-Saharan Africa, with fewer species in tropical said. ``We're saying, compete with the rest.'' Naush Boghossian, (818) 546-3306 naush.boghossian(at)dailynews.com |
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