“I wish ULI would have taken the opportunity in six months to at least make us aware of what they had in mind,” Linster said.

But Kevin O’Driscoll, an employee of ULI, said he was puzzled by the action.

“It’s a head-scratcher. She clearly supports the Metcalfe proposal and that’s unfortunate because she’s never met with us,” O’Driscoll said, adding if the city reopens requests for proposals, ULI would not respond.

Ald. Satya Rhodes-Conway, 12th District, delivered a scathing commentary on the procedure of Maniaci’s resolution.

“I want to start by thanking the citizens who came before us tonight ... and I want to apologize to you because there are at least two relevant things worth discussion on the matter of the 800 block,” she said. “One of them is the process that was used to make the selection. The other is the selection itself and what is actually going to go on that site. ... However, neither one of those things is before us tonight.”

Soglin and Maniaci also introduced a resolution to deliver $3.43 million in tax incremental financing for the Gebhardt Development project, a $39 million, 12-story mixed-use project on the next block.