Article posted: 1/25/2013 7:21 PM

Architect misses deadlines for arts center idea

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A rendering of what the old Ziegler's Ace Hardware store in downtown West Dundee would look like if it's converted into the Fox Performing Arts Center.

Courtesy of Rick Browne

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Rick Browne, a local architect who partnered with West Dundee to convert an abandoned hardware store into a regional performing arts center, has missed a pair of deadlines in which he was supposed to update the village about the project's progress. That, in turn, is trying the patience of some village leaders."He keeps blowing off these goals and blowing off these deadlines," Trustee Norm Osth said. "How much patience can an organization have until it says enough is enough?"