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Old Posted Oct 1, 2021, 10:35 PM
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as i mentioned in the other thread where we talking about the bears, 12 of the NFL's current 30 stadiums (40%) are already located outside of the municipal boundaries of their main cities, so the bears would have plenty of company if they do end up leaving town.
Yeah and many in "city limits" are in outskirts (e.g. Philly, Tampa, Houston, Green Bay, KC), the equivalent of putting it somewhere like here: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6845.../data=!3m1!1e3
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I would love it if the mayor actually came out in support of the move. Feels like it could be mutually beneficial and a great opportunity for the city. The Bears aren't leaving Chicago, they're just moving down the street to a bigger house. It's only an L if you think it is. The 49ers moved out of SF and everyone seemed to think it was a win-win.

Pro football really is the most suburban of sports. Is anybody really happy with the compromise of a tiny, wildly expensive tailgating lot that still takes up a huge chunk of the lakefront? Or a colossal, Frankenstein building on the lakefront that only gets used 8 times a year?

By getting behind the Bears move, Lightfoot can have more time to plan for what comes next. That's more time to plan for public transit to the Arlington site - Lightfoot could support a reduced-fare pilot program on Metra UP-NW or free CTA-Metra transfers. Even if the Fire become Soldier Field's biggest tenant, that's still 3x more home games per year. Their attendance is smaller but I wouldn't be surprised if you get the same economic impact. Also, a Soldier Field without the Bears can host more concerts or other events, and can be renovated with that in mind.

Also, think about what it would take to keep the Bears - even in the rosiest scenario where the team pays for a new domed stadium somewhere, the city is still gonna be on the hook for infrastructure, policing, etc. That's the last thing we need with huge pension liabilities, crumbling existing infrastructure, a failing school system, and rising crime. Get the Bears off the city's books and let the fiscally-stable suburbs deal with them.
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I don't know if there is any good publicly available analysis, but the city should be considering the full revenue and cost impact of the games on the city - which includes subjects like transit shuttles, traffic and policing. And, in event of a move, consider how much of that lost revenue would be recouped by that same money being spent on other forms of entertainment. As well as how much could be retained in the city (e.g., hotel stays in the city by people who ride the train to a game). Offhand, it strikes me that something for which resources need to be amassed 8 days a year might not pencil out to be especially cost effective. I suppose something like "city pride" or image and marketing could be factored into the mix, but if you start down that path, there is no end to the perceived value.

The same degree of analysis should go toward all events, but there is also a distinction to be made between public and private events requiring a ticket. For the city to perform its due diligence is complicated, e.g., can One Central be part of the equation or what is the future of Soldier Field without the Bears. But modern football stadiums and the all-around experience they try to provide lend themselves well to large auto-centric footprints. And the days when a city need feel slighted about a football team playing outside its borders have passed. The city shouldn't take it personally if the team moves, and Lightfood should be gracious in that case.
I’m still rooting for the city, but it would be foolish of me not to agree with you 100%. Ultimately it probably makes the most sense in the burbs. The optics sting, perhaps because the last 25 years of city planning galvanized the public belief that stadiums and arenas belong in urban centers as a tool of revitalization, even though we know that’s not usually the case. For Chicago, it’s a unique situation worth the praise of having a stadium in the park, on the lakefront, not surrounded by seas of parking.
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Old Posted Oct 1, 2021, 11:36 PM
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Sports can be a tool for urban regeneration, but the problem is not all sports are created equal. Land in a downtown should be intensely used, given the high land values and extensive infrastructure that supports downtowns. That's why arenas are the best fit for a city. Not only are basketball and hockey played on a smaller playing field that makes the buildings themselves fairly compact, but they also have long, intense schedules that guarantee the building is well-used throughout the year. That creates so much potential for businesses and amenities to grow up around an arena - it's criminal how we've allowed the area around the UC to languish.

2nd best is perhaps baseball - a bigger playing field and fewer games, but still quite a bit (~81 home games/year). Medium potential for surrounding development, which is still quite a bit of potential - see Wrigleyville. Also, baseball was born in cities so the dimensions of the playing field are flexible and not fully set in stone - that makes baseball stadiums uniquely able to fit into different urban sites without needing to wipe out their surroundings.

3rd best probably soccer, the playing field size is comparable to football but the attendance at games is not the same as NFL, so the stands can be smaller or more vertical and they don't need to curve so a soccer stadium plays nicely in a rectangular street grid. There's also little to no tailgate culture, so parking lots aren't a must-have. So much of soccer culture is influenced by Euro and Latin countries where it's simply not realistic to drive to a game. And the current MLS season gives teams ~17 home games per season.

Of course, football is the least urban-friendly. Stadiums are large, purpose-built and hard to adapt for other uses, and they are an odd shape that swallows up land. Fans, especially for professional games, demand the ability to drive to a large open-air parking lot to tailgate. And of course, only 8 home games per year.
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The Chicago Urban League, Business Leadership Council, and Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce gave their endorsement to One Central. The Tribune has an article on it, along with a new economic opportunity study. They plan to submit their zoning app either this month or next

Economic opportunity study: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.ne...pdf?1633119932
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The Chicago Urban League, Business Leadership Council, and Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce gave their endorsement to One Central. The Tribune has an article on it, along with a new economic opportunity study. They plan to submit their zoning app either this month or next

Economic opportunity study: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.ne...pdf?1633119932
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Really nothing new until we see what's submitted in they application. I don't care how far-fetched it may be, getting zoning approval is key, then any developer could step in...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...81484#nws=true

Massive One Central development plans call for concert venue, retail and restaurants near Soldier Field

By LAUREN ZUMBACH
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OCT 18, 2021 AT 11:24 AM


The developer behind the proposed $20 billion One Central development revealed details for the project’s first phase: a transit center surrounded by roughly 1.4 million square feet of retail, dining and entertainment space on a 35-acre site above the train tracks near Soldier Field.

The full plans for One Central, unveiled in 2019, include up to 22.3 million square feet of buildings with as many as 9,050 residential units and 9.45 million square feet of offices. The project still needs city and state approval to proceed, and Landmark president Bob Dunn has said he expects to submit a zoning application by late October or early November.

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Renderings show the transit center would connect to a roughly 400,000-square-foot “Experiential District,” with a 50,000-square-foot event floor meant to host programs like community celebrations, game-day tailgates, corporate events or exhibitions accompanying conventions at McCormick Place.
Calling the area "underserved" is a stretch...

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Plans for a 275,000-square-foot “Neighborhood District” north of the transit hub call for shops and restaurants, including a grocery store and public market for the “dramatically underserved” South Loop neighborhood, Dunn said.
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The South Loop definitely isn't underserved lol. But this seems very ambitious. Looks lovely tho, wonder what they're going to do about soldier field/the bears. Could this get the Bears to stay with a new/renovated stadium on those empty parking lots or elsewhere?

And does this have a good chance of getting pass zoning?
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The South Loop definitely isn't underserved lol. But this seems very ambitious. Looks lovely tho, wonder what they're going to do about soldier field/the bears. Could this get the Bears to stay with a new/renovated stadium on those empty parking lots or elsewhere?

And does this have a good chance of getting pass zoning?
I have no idea how you could consider the South Loop underserved. The article made it seem like Dunn was talking about grocery stores, which is laughably untrue with a Marianos, TJs, Jewel and Target plus another Jewel across the river.

Its possible that Dunn was talking about entertainment, there does seem to be a relative scarcity of bars and restaurants in the South Loop. But I think that’s how the residents like it. I guess from the standpoint of “stadium adjacent development” it isn’t ideal.
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I have no idea how you could consider the South Loop underserved. The article made it seem like Dunn was talking about grocery stores, which is laughably untrue with a Marianos, TJs, Jewel and Target plus another Jewel across the river.

Its possible that Dunn was talking about entertainment, there does seem to be a relative scarcity of bars and restaurants in the South Loop. But I think that’s how the residents like it. I guess from the standpoint of “stadium adjacent development” it isn’t ideal.
Dunn didn't call it 'underserved' he called it "Dramatically Underserved". Just more hyperbole from a flim flam man. Also isn't an entertainment district going to compete with the city's long term effort to create the Motor Row district?
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I have no idea how you could consider the South Loop underserved. The article made it seem like Dunn was talking about grocery stores, which is laughably untrue with a Marianos, TJs, Jewel and Target plus another Jewel across the river.

Its possible that Dunn was talking about entertainment, there does seem to be a relative scarcity of bars and restaurants in the South Loop. But I think that’s how the residents like it. I guess from the standpoint of “stadium adjacent development” it isn’t ideal.
Yeah it's definitely not even close to underserved LOL. We just moved here not long ago and I've been impressed by how much has been added to some areas here in the last 5 years since we'd moved away from Chicago. It's not like everywhere is optimal - our nearest grocery store is a half mile away but we do have smaller markets nearby which fill some of the need. This isn't any different though than most places in the entire world. It's still more convenient than where we lived in Upper West Side in Manhattan actually (so was when I lived in Gold Coast).
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Chances of this actually happening?
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how is all this possible yet the Lucas Museum was not?
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This whole project is such a boondoggle

There are so many more worthy areas to be getting developed than this. Plus, I doubt that it will go anywhere
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Chances of this actually happening?
With the Bears likely out of Soldier Field by the end of the decade, I'd say pretty low chances anything happens with this one.

I understand that Museum Campus isn't reliant on the Bears by any means, but it just feels like the original pitch for this project had the Bears as a supporting pillar for the development. I mean, a new transport hub, pedestrian bridge, and entertainment district WITHOUT the Bears would feel kind of strange, seeing as how all those things would make sense if the Bears were staying long term at Soldier Field. And I don't know about you, but the Fire don't have nearly the same draw to justify a development this big.

If something does happen, it certainly won't be as big and grand as the renderings have suggested. I suppose capping the tracks with some sort of infill would be awesome to see, along with another connection to the Lakefront. But again, all that is costly, and without a money-maker like the Bears nearby it's hard to justify.
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if lori somehow gets the bears to stay, I say this project is likely to come to fruition.
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if lori somehow gets the bears to stay, I say this project is likely to come to fruition.
Probably one of the only ways this thing happens but I'm sure there's other things there too that need to happen.

My money is on - not happening but you never know.
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how is all this possible yet the Lucas Museum was not?
I'm not sure how they are related at all. One was in a park that's mostly protected and the other is not. The lawsuits against LMNA was due to the fact that they wanted to take a parking lot inside of the already existing park. They argued first (IIRC) about the ordinance, and then they argued that parking lots are vital to having people actually be able to access and enjoy a park. Remember that Lucas just got tired of it all and packed up. Friends of the Parking Lots never actually won the case.

With One Central though, the whole plan is to cap the tracks and build on private land. Considering this isn't actually in the park itself and also on some private land...yeah they aren't similar situations.
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We should all be praying that this does not happen as envisioned because that would mean the State of Illinois is blowing $6.5 billion on infrastructure the city doesn't even remotely need. That would be almost as irresponsible as not reforming our pension programs.
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Developer Reveals Updated First Phase Plans For One Central Project

http://chicagoyimby.com/2021/10/deve...l-project.html


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