Posted on 12/06/2016 1:25:38 PM PST by KeyLargo
Veterans’ group in Chicago suspects being ‘muscled’ by city out of facility near proposed Obama library
By Joseph Weber Published May 15, 2016 FoxNews.com
A charity group that helps homeless military veterans on Chicago’s South Side says the city is trying to take control of the meager facility to make way for the restaurants, shops and other commercial venues that would complement the proposed Obama presidential library and museum.
Group leaders said the RTW Veterans Center is the last privately-owned property on a stretch of S. King Boulevard near the proposed Washington Park site for the Barack Obama Presidential Center and that city building inspectors unexpectedly arrived last April to find an overwhelming 32 code violations at the facility.
“We don’t appreciate being muscled out and put in the situation of having to negotiate from a position of despair,” facility center Director Jah Ranu Menab told FoxNews.com on Saturday.
Menab thinks the University of Chicago, which is working with the Obama Foundation to bring the presidential center to the South Side, is also part of an apparent effort to ultimately force the facility into receivership.
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Send this to Trump
If Obama’s Library is bigger than a port-a-sh*tter, than it’s too big.
Ya. How much room do you need to display the Communist Manifesto?
For your reading pleasure - from Wikipedia:
Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005) was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another private owner to further economic development. In a 5–4 decision, the Court held that the general benefits a community enjoyed from economic growth qualified private redevelopment plans as a permissible “public use” under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
The case arose in the context of condemnation by the city of New London, Connecticut, of privately owned real property, so that it could be used as part of a “comprehensive redevelopment plan.” However, the private developer was unable to obtain financing and abandoned the redevelopment project, leaving the land as an undeveloped empty lot.
What private ownership of land?
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I wish I understood the headline.
“Veterans’ group in Chicago suspects being ‘muscled’ by city out of facility near proposed Obama library”
You read the story right?
What don’t you understand?
“Some RTW members still believe that the University of Chicago reported the violations as part of an attempt to acquire the building and create land for the Obama Presidential Library. University officials have denied any wrongdoing.
RTW officials say the facility serves more than 3,000 meals to homeless military. Most of them are Black. The non-profit receives no federal funding, but receives donations and support from volunteers in the community.”
http://rtwvetcenter.org/home-1
But, but, he needs all that space for his one book.
This whole idea is doomed to failure. Won’t matter if they build the greatest Presidential library ever, if they put it on South King Drive, all the fancy businesses they build around it will shortly go bankrupt.
“Some RTW members still believe that the University of Chicago reported the violations as part of an attempt to acquire the building and create land for the Obama Presidential Library.”
A very reasonable suspicion, seeing as Moochelle’s former job was doing PR for University of Chicago hospitals, when they were using similar tactics to get buildings near their property condemned so that they could be absorbed into the hospital campus.
I understand that a dilapidated outhouse is under consideration. One with the door missing!
And it is the wrong architecture if it doesn’t look like Gitmo!!
It’s Martin Luther King Drive, not King Boulevard. Every big city has a Martin Luther King something or other.
That’s absolutely hilarious.
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