A collection of conceptual renderings assembled by local development officials will occupy the first museum of its kind at the confluence of the Connecticut and Hockanum rivers in East Hartford.

Local development officials believe the $35.6 million, four-story facility will attract retail and commercial tenants and serve as an attraction for families searching for places to throw axes, wash their dirty dogs, enjoy loaded tater tots and locally-brewed ales infused with cannabis.

“The real proof of success will be removal of the levee system protecting abandoned buildings that nobody wants,” states the leader of the team GF McCormick Consulting Partners, LLC. Local stakeholders dropped plans to bring a combination Hostess Sno-Ball Academy and A-1 Sauce Bioengineering plant back to Connecticut which they hoped would entice drooling travelers to get off the highway and search for a Beefsteak Charley’s or Mister Steak, once ubiquitous in East Hartford. Rusty Steele, second grandcousin of legendary radio host Bob Steele, twice removed, said the best part of the new plan would be that the state of Connecticut is paying for it.

“This will not cost the taxpayers of East Hartford one dime,” said Steele who also lead the unsuccessful effort for the prophylactic retail outlet mall on land long undervalued by a local manufacturer.

“The shovels are practically in the ground even as we speak,” said Steele, noting the concept would especially appeal to young couples without kids, a highly-sought demographic sought by the elderly and town leaders who have grown increasingly annoyed by having to pay for glue sticks for local schools.

When East Hartford Town Hall was recently renovated, local officials discovered the cases of architectural renderings, proposed development concepts and drawings nearly filled two tractor trailers. The drawings date back to the Frank Marrota’s floating tugboat restaurant, Trammel-Crow’s concept of installing a retractable gate into the dike system, the Science Center of Connecticut’s museum along the East Hartford Riverfront, Six Flags proposal for Rentschler Field, a casino-brewery at Showcase Cinemas to the latest Riverfront concepts being proposed.

There are also hours of Powerpoint presentations preserved using state grants for visitors to enjoy at the Imaginerium auditorium and gathering space. Parking could be free unless a new garage is added on to be paid for using tax-incremental financing. Being in an enterprise zone, the market-rate units in the ancillary riverfront marina tower would get tax incentives and other costs paid for with new dog walking user fees and sensors buried in the decks of the nearby highway system.

“Rather than merely relocate them back to Town Hall, we were struck with the idea to put them all up on display,” said Flo Ready of East Hartford’s Demolition and Deforestation department. “All these renderings paint a fascinating portrait of a town constantly on the move,” she said. Visitors without kids would get free admission to further encourage them to reside in town. “With a little imagination, a row of dirt and golden shovels we can convert the decades of broken asphalt and promises into something uniquely East Hartford.”