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Originally Posted by marothisu
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The surface lot here is not great. I appreciate that they pushed the building up against Loomis St by the CTA entrance and made sure to include an east entrance for CTA riders and walk-in patients, but it's still a garbage site plan.
Loomis is also the best walking/biking route between Little Italy and West Loop, since Racine and Ashland are both dangerous deathtraps with expressway ramps and drivers who want to floor it
before they get to the ramp. So, I'm not excited about a destination development that puts more traffic on Loomis. This should really be residential here.
Also an FYI, on the other side of the Eisenhower is the police academy. I'm interested to see what happens to that site after the (controversial) new police academy opens in West Humboldt Park. It's a prime redevelopment site next to some of the best schools in the city. I'm watching the Fire Academy too, but that's in the Roosevelt shopping area so I assume just more suburban retail. The Fire Academy is directly on top of Mrs. O'Leary's cottage, so it would be ironic for the Fire Dept to leave that spot.