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Just outside, the expensive new building under construction for the museum’s permanent collection is taking shape, designed for a misguided plan for theme show displays.

General manager Marty Adams told the DWP board in August 2020 that the utility had a plan in place to fix the compressors later in the year but decided to go public because JPL had detected the leak as part of an aerial survey, and “their information is getting more publicized.”

The plan, unveiled in 2017, was shelved just before the pandemic, a fortuitous turn that is now allowing planners to adapt to a radically different city.

Whatever the city’s plan, he hopes to keep a store in the Civic Center and would like to be relocated on street level, where more customers will find him — once they “start to wear shoes” again.

"We don't know. We don't know the plan."