By Steve Rhodes
The city council today passed the Lincoln Yards project, as well as its overshadowed unofficial partner, The 78.
Along with the Near South Side, the city is showing once again that it can create new neighborhoods out of thin air when and where it wants to.
Now, it’s true, these projects are in locations developers deem desirable – adjacent to the city’s most valuable property.
But . . .
Imagine an abandoned lakefront or riverfront site on the North Side that was more than 1.5 times the size of Grant Park. A mayor or mayoral candidate wouldn’t be allowed to be silent about it.
— Lee Bey📷 (@LEEBEY) March 29, 2019
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Tweeting Lincoln Yards
How it went down today, with bonus commentary.
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The Beachwood: We Add Value.
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Lincoln Yard Lard
Just out of curiosity . . .
The first mention of Lincoln Yards by the Tribune came on September 13, 2017:
“Sterling Bay’s massive development planned for the former A. Finkl & Sons steel plant site has a name, a high-powered planning team and one big target: Amazon’s second headquarters,” Ryan Ori wrote.
“About two years after it struck a deal to buy the North Side parcel along the Chicago River, the Chicago developer is disclosing new details, including the name: Lincoln Yards.
“The mixed-use development could take up as much as 100 acres of land along Lincoln Park and Bucktown, cost as much as $10 billion and take a decade to complete, said Sterling Bay managing principal Andy Gloor.”
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Similarly, the first mention by the Sun-Times was on the same day:
“Mega-developer Sterling Bay has targeted Amazon as the anchor tenant for a $10 billion mixed-use, riverfront development on land it’s assembling in Lincoln Park and Bucktown that includes the old Finkl Steel plant,” Fran Spielman wrote, in an article that was really about potential Amazon HQ2 sites, not Lincoln Yards per se.
“Together with the fleet maintenance facility purchased from the city for $104.7 million, Sterling Bay’s managing principal Andy Gloor hopes to put together nearly 100 acres for the project it calls ‘Lincoln Yards.'”
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According to Sterling Bay, Lincoln Yards began in 2013 when Finkl Steel abandoned the property it had sat on for 112 years.
According to this history, Sterling Bay unveiled its plan to the public in July 2018.
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New on the Beachwood . . .
The Boy Band Con
Lou Pearlman was a wretch, and the music sucked too.
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The Fight To Pay Minor Leaguers
A lot of them really barely get paid.
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Co-Ed Pro Swim League Launches
International and gender-balanced.
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ChicagoReddit
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
Chicago’s Marxists Are Behind The Migrant Caravans.
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BeachBook
Privileged, By Kyle Korver.
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TweetWood
A non-Lincoln Yards sampling.
THE 78 PASSES: 31-13. Dowell, King, Hairston, Sadlowski-Garza, Cardenas, Foulkes, Ervin, Waguespack, Reilly, Smith, Arena, Pawar, Osterman vote no. Burke abstains. Loud booing can be heard in the chambers.
— The Daily Line (@thedailylinechi) April 10, 2019
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“I don’t know whether Bob Mueller supported my conclusion,” says Donald Trump’s shopped-for attorney general. https://t.co/BFxQcahAiK
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) April 10, 2019
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Every president’s taxes are audited automatically under IRS policy and yet every president over the last four decades has released their returns anyway. https://t.co/ypgC3afchx
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 10, 2019
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A galaxy 55 Million light years away a super massive blackhole million times bigger than Sun. Humans after 2.5 millions years of evolution, 1 year of hardwork have achieved capability to view event horizon on 10/04/2019 to understand a small part of cosmic mystery. #EHTblackhole pic.twitter.com/XrdDRemE2x
— Sandeep Chaudhary (@Sunny110001) April 10, 2019
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The Beachwood McRibTipLine: Horizontal.
Posted on April 9, 2019