"My partner and I live on Sunnyside. We use the Red Line Wilson Stop about every day. They JUST put artist renderings of the development in the display case / poster case back-lit signs outside of Aldi! And it DOES show the Target store."
A couple Update Update contributors went to Aldi's today and checked out the display cases while we were there. No sign of anything having to do with Target or renderings. Just the badly-lit SSA banners and Aldi's ad that have been there since the beginning.
We also had a chance to notice the three blank cases, empty except for graffiti and the now-ruined display case glass where previous graffiti was eradicated. Surely this isn't the "art-filled atrium" that residents were promised by the alderman's office when she was promoting her wonderful plan for Wilson Yard?
We are left to wonder ...
If $52 million in public funds, Aldi, Holsten Development, Alderman Helen Shiller and the Department of Planning and Development can't even manage to keep a promise about putting schoolchildren's art on display ... how can they possibly be trusted to get Wilson Yard built?
And remember, Uptown residents: Your money paid for this. Behold the ruined glass and broken promises your tax dollars have bought in the name of Ald. Shiller's "vision" for Wilson Yard.
Naw, there was easles up over the weekend with some pictures and badly drawn prints for stores, if that's what they are talking about.
ReplyDeletethey had something more formal up at truman for some meeting that prolly talked about taking more money from us.
guessing it, just like that green curtain, saw the likes of grafittie over the weekend, and they had to take it down.
or it ended up with bullet holes in it, and the CPD took it for evidence... lol
there WAS stuff up this weekend, or at least friday.
Closed meetings here at Truman, especially in this area - involving that site - can never mean anything good. You might be on to something though as far as the taking more money goes... That's my best guess for that meeting.
ReplyDeleteI did see the easels at the college though. Didn't have any familiar names on it, but the buildings looked the same.
I've lived in this area 3 years, and iIt's like a big cock-tease... pardon the expression.
I feel bad for the people moving here because they think there will be a change...
There was an art display of new designs for Denise Davis's eyebrows, and inovative new uses for urban refuse to be incorporated into her weave.
ReplyDeletethe groundbreaking was just some info that went up on posters in the area, and a meeting at TC. nothing is going on until next summer. they have to "prepare the site" now. so lame...
ReplyDeleteWait, so you are telling me there was actually something proactive?
ReplyDeleteThey actually put posters up, had some displays, and a meeting?
Does this mean that in 6 more years, a foundation will be laid?
Could you stop with the comments on Denise Davis' appearance? Stick to the issues please. Talking about how someone looks or dresses is such a juvenile way to express your anger at important matters. R E S P E C T !
ReplyDeleteBut what about the promised delivery dte of 3/2010?
ReplyDeleteMore smoke being blown up our arses, I guess.
Someone made a comment on the wrong blog entry, but commented that transparencies could be made for ~ $100.
ReplyDeleteWhy not raise that money and have it printed? Uptown Chicago COmmission is a non profit. (Since UCC represents "the community", surely they have enough connections to get some appropriate art) Enough money could easily be raised to print those up.
If for some reason, Aldi won't post them, you could have them put up on current businesses, or inside windows of vacant stores.
This is an easy way to show how much better you are than Shiller...
Doesn't the middle poster look like a ALDI Ad showing a woman eating cereal.
ReplyDeleteUptown Chicago COmmission is a non profit. (Since UCC represents "the community", surely they have enough connections to get some appropriate art)
ReplyDeletejp, did you catch your passive-aggressive behavior because I bet a lot of other people did. Just know that you're teaching your daughter to be passive-aggressive too.
Doesn't the middle poster look like a ALDI Ad showing a woman eating cereal.
ReplyDeleteYeah. That's why the article says: "Just the badly-lit SSA banners and Aldi's ad that have been there since the beginning."
you'll love the idea - they are courting the existing businesses in the area to move into the "modern ammenities" of the new buildings going up.
ReplyDeleteLike we are going to pay to relocate, and then have higher rent...
but target, and an "unidentified large store" will give us more business than being located next to the wilson stop!
I call BS on this plan.
OMG the survivorby2! Extant businesses don't need "modern amenities" with high rents---you need pedestrian friendly streets where people walk the neighborhood daily to get what they need and also for leisure consumption. If you make it a pleasure for people to part with their money, chances are they will! Where did these people learn their urban planning---"Strip Mall University" circa 1958?
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ReplyDeleteCould you stop with the comments on Denise Davis' appearance? Stick to the issues please. Talking about how someone looks or dresses is such a juvenile way to express your anger at important matters. R E S P E C T !
June 2, 2008 8:13 PM
It IS a terrible weave... bad, bad quality!!!
That looks about as artistic as the public artwork under the Wilson CTA tracks promised by the TIF subsidized Wilson Transit Associates that was supposed to be added by the TIF rennovated art gallery in the TIF rennovated Leland Hotel SRO next to the TIF rennovated ONE offices next to the TIF subsidized Heartland Alliance management offices.
ReplyDeletesay TIF one more time...
ReplyDeletewell, maybe they just want the businesses to promise to relocate so that they can bulldoze even more buildings, create "renderings," and then promise to build more things, and never get around to it.
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