The donated services and material was worth $425,000 [1]. The project costs came down on their own, meaning they never needed to be that high. It was an overestimate. If there wasn’t bad publicity then who knows if grift would have allowed it to stay too high or not, we’ll never know.
Where are you seeing the $1.7m is still getting spent?
Where are you seeing the $1.7m is still getting spent?
[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/noe-valley-s-pricey-p...