^ Completely agree with Viva here. The city will by far be getting the biggest bang for its buck, the most transformative positive economic development, the least negative externalities, focusing its resources on projects like the 78 and Michael Reese. The utilization of existing under capacity infrastructure....the growth potential to a more widespread area and population is much greater for these projects in these types of locations.
The Lincoln Yards plan just makes a lot less sense. Particularly office components. The notion that another suburban company is going to decide to relocate to the city only because they will have the option of Lincoln Yards is downright silly. Unfortunately a lot of gullible people fall for that stuff. Same type of logic that gets people to believe that Salesforce won’t expand to a 500,000+ sq ft office footprint in Chicago unless the river-facing signage ordinance is changed....sounds goofy - but yet people fall for it all day long.
Lincoln Yards should really be just a medium to medium-high density residential development....nothing more really, as that’s what the location, infrastructure and associated sound planning principles would call for (I know, I know - planning really isn’t Chixago’s thing).
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