“It is humongously out of scale with the buildings around it.” So says
Lake Effect News, quoting Janis Tiffin of Uptown Coalition for Responsible Development, about the proposed new development that will place 1,050 residential units, a hotel, a supermarket, health club, and parking for 1,100 cars in the footprint of Maryville Columbus, on Montrose and Clarendon.
“Nobody in my building or condominium association received any notification of any meetings,” Tiffin said. “There were two residents [who knew about it] but they didn’t tell anyone else.”
Read the whole story in
Lake Effect News here:
Uptown Coalition Opposed To Maryville Development Playing Game Of “Beat The Clock.”
It's just sick how the Taxpaying Citizens of Chicago are pushed around for special interests to line the pockets of our elected officials.
ReplyDeleteNo reason we need a development there after all. They City should buy it demolish it and use it as green space.
Or if not a totally private funded development should be built.
If they need TIF money then it shouldn't be built.
TIF is such an expected way of funding in Chicago that people now think it is normal. Unfortunately, Uptown has some of the last large lakefront areas with re-development potential...and a fool-hardy Alderbeast trying to make her mark on her way out the door. I can't believe that every major development NEEDS to be subsidized by tax payers!!!
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ReplyDeletenimbies in uptown
are against everything.
You have to balance out wilson yard with something.
This will help.
Holy crap, how do you expect the neigborhood to improve?
By attracting evil condo owners.
Or just people that aint poor.
Please build it.
Its not humongously out of proportion with the area.
That is all arbitrary.
we have plenty of green space,
its called the LAKEFRONT.
and its right there.
Off topic, but I like the new look, you guys were due for a makeover!
ReplyDeletegeofredo, what makes you think that the design that is shown to us now is what will be built? The massive upzoning makes anything possible. Sort of like Wilson Yards.
ReplyDeleteHey, well, thanks for your interest, but there's no need to call anybody names... and as far as the proposed development goes, the point is not to be "against everything". I'm in favor of development on the Maryville site that fits in with the neighborhood. But what do you think the effect of building a huge complex with eight-story-talls walls running right up to the lot line, and with twin towers 40+ stories tall -- on a residential street of three-story buildings -- would be? The neighborhood would be crushed with traffic, noise, smog, and density, of course. The developers would make a ton of money, and take it with them back to the suburbs or where ever they come from, but we would be left with the traffic, the smog, and the mess, and left paying the TIF bill for years to come. Is that what you support, geofredo? Sounds like a bum deal to me.
ReplyDeleteIf i was really concerned with density and traffic
ReplyDeleteI wouldnt be living right by the lake in chicago.
Especially Uptown.
Oh no. There's that argument again. Somehow the quality standards the rest of the city lives by are lowered for those living in Uptown. Well not for me. I want the same setbacks, green space and lowered density that the zoning code requires of the rest of the city.
ReplyDelete"There have been meetings with the alderman and other “community leaders,” including representatives from Clarendon Park Neighbors and Organization of the NorthEast."
ReplyDeleteONE is involved? That pretty much guarantees that all is not how it seems...
Anyone know when there will be another community meeting on this? Hopefully one that follows the guidelines of the Open Public Meetings act? We need more meetings, more often... the Alderbeast and her developer cronies are hitting the accelerator on this one... the quicker they slide things by us, the less we can do.
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