Then you walk into a tunnel with all your photos and hashtags on screens that cover half the space (the other half is filled with mirrors that reflect the screens), while a programmed male voice reads out your handles and hashtags in the background. My favorite is the Instagram Tunnel, which gives you an immersive experience of your own Instagram feed.īefore entering the tunnel, a staffer will help you put in your Instagram handle.

This new flagship store allows you to play with virtual reality goggles, take your selfie, see it gets generated with thousands of other photos and projected onto a three-story high screen. The permit, environmental review and an engineer’s report are all required before a $140 million assessment vote for the project can be conducted.Samsung opened it’s experience store, Samsung 873, in the meatpacking district. Meanwhile, county officials are expecting to submit a water rights permit application for the Interlake Tunnel project later this year and that process is expected to take about two years to complete. The goal, Buche said, is to conduct an assessment vote by April, and if approved the agency could start receiving revenue by December. A final report would be considered for approval by the county supervisors. The report also includes an assessment methodology, zones of benefit and a proposed assessment.īuche said the plan is to present the draft report to area city councils and other entities such as the Monterey County Farm Bureau before returning to the water agency board for review. Adding in reserves lifts the total funding needed to about $160 million, not including about $2.7 million in ongoing annual operations and maintenance costs. The draft report lays out a specific and detailed project description including 26 “sub-projects” for the two reservoirs and their dams and a $148.7 million cost estimate for the work.

If the agency gets the grant, it would have received $27 million in state grant funding for the tunnel project including $10 million from the state Department of Water Resources for prep work including environmental review.Įarlier Tuesday, the water agency board conducted a workshop to consider and accept public comments on the 72-page draft engineer’s report for the Nacimiento and San Antonio Maintenance Project, a required precursor to an assessment vote to pay for the $160 million initiative. But local and state officials “hammered out” a new deal allowing the grant funding to be available through mid-2024. The grant earmarked for fish screens - or a “fish exclusion system” - aimed at preventing non-native white bass from migrating through the proposed Interlake Tunnel that would connect the Nacimiento and San Antonio reservoirs was withdrawn by state officials last year amid concerns about budget impacts as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. On Tuesday, the county Water Resources Agency board recommended the Board of Supervisors authorize water agency General Manager Brent Buche to enter into a grant agreement for the $17 million with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. In two key developments for proposed Lake Nacimiento and Lake San Antonio water projects, a $17 million state grant for fish screens as part of the Interlake Tunnel project is in the works again while a draft engineer’s report for a long list of maintenance and repair work at the Monterey County-owned reservoirs has been released.

Screen tunnel