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Courthouse Square Alternative Development Scenarios Febiuary 17, 1998 Background Staff and the Oversight Committee have been focusing their work on the questions of the need for the facility, and what issues need to be resolved if the project is to move forward. A pai~t of the decision process should examine what the impacts are of "decommissioning" the Courthouse Square project and moving toward other alternatives. The steps that would need to be undertaken to disband the joint development process and move in a new direction, and some of the costs and implications of doing so, are presented on the following pages in the form of the question, "What happens if Marion County and/or Salem Area Transit abandon the Courthouse Square project, and: A) neither agency proceeds with a project on the current site, or, B) transit stays on the Senator block site to develop a downtown h•ansit center and the county moves its seivice center to another location, or, C) the county stays on the Senator block to develop its service center and transit relocates to another site. These are somewhat simplistic summaries of what would in reality be a complicated process, but the steps indicated should provide a general idea of the processes ? and considerations that would follow a decision to cease the joint development of the Senator block.