Museum planned to spur development in Coos Bay
http://djcoregon.com/news/2012/06/01/museum-planned-to-spur-development-in-coos-bay/
“(It will) re-energize the area and "we hope" will encourage redevelopment to occur there,” Donnelly said. “There’s been no magnet activity to encourage restaurants and stores to take advantage of this really beautiful waterfront because it was historically all industrial and in many ways it’s a big transformation.”
Yeah, we all know businessess locate to an area based on access to good museums.