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Originally Posted by JK47
What am I talking about? Refresh your memory about the Washington Park proposal. Both of the proposals relied on nearly identical amounts of parkland (22 acres of Washington Park versus 21 acres of Jackson Park). The land west of King Drive is part of the Washington Park proposal and is thus inapplicable.
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What do you mean inapplicable? You are
assuming that part of the building would have been on that 22 acres IN Washington Park. It could have been a spruced up gateway or made into a Presidential Garden while the center lay on the lot west of MLK DR, we don't know.
It really isn't even arguable that the WP site had many acres of prime but underused/derelict land to play with and build on that could have enlivened the immediate streetscape and neighborhood in a way not possible with Jackson Park while potentially enhancing the greenery and landscape of WP.
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