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Originally Posted by moorhosj
A far cry from your original comment:
How can you claim it hasn't made a material difference? How many local residents are employed by Englewood Square? How many are eating healthier because of the new options available? You don't know the answers to these questions and neither do I.
Will this one development save an entire neighborhood, no. Then again, nobody ever claimed it would. It has, however, proven that private investment will follow public investment even in places like Englewood. Ranting about socialism (or trying to conflate it to communism, like Baronvonellis) doesn't really help anyone answer any of those questions and certainly doesn't help the people living in Englewood today.
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Reread my comment you quoted. To a limited extent TIF can help and it should be utilized. I never said otherwise. I have always been in favor of TIF. Big picture, City government will never solve Englewood's problems.
You're right that I don't know how many local residents are employed at Englewood Square (all 42,000 SF of it), but knowing retail, there are probably not that many, and a good portion are part time.