Conversation with John Molloy PM of DPD City of Chicago

At roughly 5:00 PM today John Molloy from the City DPD returned my calls at my office. I spoke with John for about 20 minutes.

John Molloy believes he can get us a sit-down with the prospective developer in the next few weeks. He added that he's still talking with city legal team about us gaining access and has not been given a solid answer yet if they will okay our access to the theater to see it for ourselves. (By the way..the prospective developer has seen the Journal article for sure, it was the copy that I had mailed to John) John says he'll be in touch with me directly in the next 2 weeks regarding setting an appointment with the prospective developer. From what I understand the developer has other projects he's working on and will need a little while to shake some time loose. Speaking of the J article, John reassures me that the chili parlor is safe. I told him I was happy to hear that and I only brought it up because the fellas who were passing by and being grumpy(see Journal article) were heading into the chili parlor. He laughed loudly. He then told me that the he is actually happy to see that there is real support for keeping the building, because he's always wanted to, but had a lot of people were telling him to just tear it down when he first took over the project.