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Originally Posted by Crawford
The whole South Loop is characterized by townhouses on quiet streets. It isn't specific to Dearborn Park. The no through streets and relative isolation make it perfect for families, who are less worried their toddler is gonna be mowed down by speeding cars.
You would tear down like 90% of the South Loop, because it isn't wall-to-wall tenements like in the Bronx? Why, exactly? There would be no one living there but college students, 20-something transients and divorcees. The professional families would move out.
What's wrong with a streetscape like this? Affluent families in Chicago's core neighborhoods live in neighborhoods like this. They generally aren't living in 50-floor towers:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8630...7i16384!8i8192 |
You are confusing DP with the greater South Loop.
The greater South Loop east of Michigan Ave is still generally well connected to surrounding streets. It is not the same thing as DP.
DP is an insular hellhole like a suburban subdivision with nearly no outlets. It also completely turns its back on State St, a major thoroughfare, south of Roosevelt. People who live in DP come out with pitchforks and torches whenever there is a proposal that threatens that status quo. They came out in full force against a subway station that would've been built on the edge of their district, so now it will get built across the street. They used "inside connections" to prevent a street from getting cut to create a new intersection at around 15th st or so.