"Hostile takeover" at the Old S.F. Mint?

CaptHenway

Interesting.

linky

Coinosaurus

Kudos to the current tenants for raising the funds that they did. The new guys have apparently convinced the city they'll be better at fund raising.

SaorAlba

In the early 80s when I was a young kid you could go there and look at $1 million in gold, a huge pioneer gold coin display, all sorts of artefacts etc. It is a shame what happened to all that materiel that was there was moved out and back into safes, SDB's pigeonholes etc.

CalGold

$30 -$35 million for renovation to create a local museum may just be an unattainable goal. Unfortunately that kind of cost makes the building a white elephant. The highest and best use of that building would be to turn it into a casino. But since that would be make people happy and would generate gobs of revenue for the City it wont happen.

CG

Tookybandit

The last time I was at the Mint building it was closed, had homeless people sleeping on the steps, and reeked of urine. It was not at all what I was expecting and was absolutely heartbreaking! Any improvement would be greatly appreciated.