The committee tasked with reviewing eight proposals vying for use of the Seattle Center's Fun Forest site—most notably, a Chihuly museum or new digs for KEXP with an interactive exhibition space/park imagined by Open Platform—are expected to make their recommendation to Seattle Center Director Robert Nellams by the end of this week. Now Seattlepi.com is reporting that their decision might be kept secret:

Seattle Center officials said a panel recommendation on what to do with the old Fun Forest site, expected a few weeks ago, will likely happen by Friday. But there's a catch—it may be a secret for a couple of more weeks.

That's because Center director Robert Nellams wants time to study the recommendation and prepare his presentation on the issue to Mayor Mike McGinn. That presentation is expected to happen by the end of the month.

"We just want Robert Nellams to make a clean presentation, without it being totally overblown in the media," Center spokeswoman Deborah Daoust said Tuesday. "He wants to have time to look at the assessment."

Daoust stated last week that Nellams wouldn't change the panel's recommendation, but might "tweak it." I'm not sure how the media could overblow the recommendation unless Nellams planned "tweaks" are more akin to reconstructive surgery. Either way, this is utter bullshit.