It sounds like with Warren in charge now, the Bears will just let this play out and take the best deal. I'll bet it could still be Arlington Heights. Surely the tax thing can be worked out with a compromise that benefits the taxing bodies and in particular the schools but still gives the Bears a fair deal too. But if Arlington Heights just fails to work in good faith here, I could see the new owner of that 350 acre tract being something undesirable. Instead of something nice like the Bears plan, that would feed a healthy economy in AH, it could be something really bad (let your imagination go wild here). Because it sounds like Chicago is pretty serious now to give the Bears a nice venue in the City.
The lakefront site will be difficult also. Lots of local support for an open lakefront - they don't want any more buildings.
I've come to believe that no matter what you do in life you are going to tick someone off. You can't please everyone. Warren will get this right by letting it play out and take the best offer. Couldn't you see that 350 acre former horse racetrack ending up some smelly pig meat processing facility or something even nastier? I could.
The lakefront site will be difficult also. Lots of local support for an open lakefront - they don't want any more buildings.
I've come to believe that no matter what you do in life you are going to tick someone off. You can't please everyone. Warren will get this right by letting it play out and take the best offer. Couldn't you see that 350 acre former horse racetrack ending up some smelly pig meat processing facility or something even nastier? I could.
Or what we're fighting here - a massive paving over of some of the best farmland in the world for a monstrous development of warehouses. 4 miles by 3 miles of warehouses. Added in to the scattered warehouses all around. These things are huge. Some of these buildings are a half mile long. I think AH needs some of these.
Post by dachuckster on Feb 4, 2024 20:42:58 GMT -6
The NIMBY folks pushing the reassessment of the old race track want neither. They want the absence of a big development. No stadium, no factory, no mega warehouse, no nothing.
On Nextdoor, I suggested housing for new immigrants, but that didn't go over very well.
The NIMBY folks pushing the reassessment of the old race track want neither. They want the absence of a big development. No stadium, no factory, no mega warehouse, no nothing.
On Nextdoor, I suggested housing for new immigrants, but that didn't go over very well.
Yeah, I get that. The problem for the NIMBY crowd is that you don't have total control of some of this. Some nasty things could go in there and meet all legal requirements.
The NIMBY folks pushing the reassessment of the old race track want neither. They want the absence of a big development. No stadium, no factory, no mega warehouse, no nothing.
On Nextdoor, I suggested housing for new immigrants, but that didn't go over very well.
Yeah, I get that. The problem for the NIMBY crowd is that you don't have total control of some of this. Some nasty things could go in there and meet all legal requirements.
I used that example as there was a post explicitly hoping that there be no low income housing. AH is a suburb where large areas of housing have entry level prices of at least a half million dollars (and several neighborhoods have much higher entry level prices). While a lot of these folks don't qualify financially to be considered "limousine liberals", they share the same politics (and the same hypocrisy).
Post by bearsinhouston on Feb 4, 2024 23:18:46 GMT -6
Sweaty Teddys last legacy. Does a deal with a municipality without tax guarantees. What a shrewd businessman. Hopefully Kevin can clean this mess up. At the least they have lost time. And maybe a lot of money too.
Sweaty Teddys last legacy. Does a deal with a municipality without tax guarantees. What a shrewd businessman. Hopefully Kevin can clean this mess up. At the least they have lost time. And maybe a lot of money too.
I keep wondering if the Bears will get some adjustment to the tax evaluation. Maybe somewhere in the middle of what they want, and what the present evaluation is.
