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Originally Posted by MCL
Man, misinformation really spreads like wildfire on this forum. If anyone bothered to read the article, the grants in question are microgrants up to $20,000 each. The grant in question for Logan Square is for the new Emmett Street Apartments eTOD (probably the best example of eTOD in Chicago to date) not for the plaza near by, La Placita, which I’m very much looking forward to becoming one of the new great public spaces in Chicago.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/10...-to-blue-line/
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Oh I'm sorry, it's for a $15,000 mural on the side of an already approved, funded (at $400k a door, a price private developers laugh at), and constructed building.
This is not TOD or equitable in any way shape or form. It's literally money that should be spent actually improving the city being funneled through Bickerdike to some artist that Rosa is pals with.
It's not TOD, it's pork.
Meanwhile NEIU can't even get a single bid for the property on Kimball and the Kennedy they took via emminant domain because it's currently a useless m1-1 zone and no one wants to deal with Rosa's impossible demands.