Posted on 01/15/2018 1:15:26 AM PST by a little elbow grease
The Obama Foundation released plans last week for the presidential center it plans to build in Chicago's Jackson Park, but behind the scenes, a battle is taking place to keep the former Democratic president from building on that specific plot of land, and there's still a chance that it gets delayed when it seeks federal approval.
What initially started out as a library has morphed into a 20-acre private "center," and some environmentalists and historians are unhappy with the Obama Foundation's plans to swoop in and take over a national historic place.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The spot is near the Museum of Science and Industry, Lake Michigan and the eastern edge of the university campus, where Obama used to teach constitutional law. The location is also near Woodlawn, a low-income black neighborhood that recently has begun to gentrify. The Obamas are longtime Chicago residents, and sought a part of their hometown that needed revitalization but could also benefit from the addition.
This week, the Obama Foundation shared dozens of changes to its proposal, including road closures within the park, a revamping of the picturesque landscaping, a five-acre parking garage on adjacent parkland, and the consolidation and privatization of two golf courses. In addition, the newly designed main building would stretch 23 stories high at 235 feet tall.
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"a five acre parking garage"? -- That's one hell of a parking garage.
Who is going to fill that parking garage? Antifa thugs......... The Black Caucus and friends?
Haven’t read this version, but another version of the story claimed that the Zeros wanted the tax payers to pick up the bill for a road or detour around the ‘library’.
That man is Frederick Law Olmsted who is considered the father of landscape architecture, and who set the standards to which landscape architects still aspire.
The Negro neighborhoods which would benefit from the Obama shrine are many, many blocks away. Oh well, Obama lies are so common they hardly draw attention to themselves anymore.
It is refreshing to see news out of Chicagostan refusing the usurper and false emissary of America and disallowing the construction of land taken by a boy king with no clothes on.
He doesnt need a 20 acre center to display his koran and fake birth certificate.
...some environmentalists and historians are unhappy with the Obama Foundation’s plans to swoop in and take over a national historic place...
I felt that way when he swooped in to take over another national historical place. The White House.
“In addition, the newly designed main building would stretch 23 stories high at 235 feet tall.”
Tower of Babel?
Nothing but a shrine to his narcissist self
Take a 'walking tour' of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition the 'White City'
What Obama is planning for that site in an abomination.
I love this story. The Obamas have adopted the lifestyle of jet setters and live in a house that looks like a castle.
Meanwhile, the folks from the Southside of Chicago have been ignored. The open lakefront in Chicago, which isopen to the public, is one of the distinguishing characteristics of Chicago. It also provides a great benefit to those who live in the City, and who cant afford to go on fancy vacations.
That the Obamas appear oblivious to how their proposed monument to their own greatness will affect those nearby, says much about how phony the former president and his wife really are.
Shrine is the perfect word to describe it.
Now he doesn’t want the National Archives in control? This should be on private land then, elsewhere, such as the basement of the Jakarta Stock Exchange.
I am so betting that it faces Mecca.
And Crescents.
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LOL
Also along those lies, I'm hearing there are to be some large granite sculptures of camels out in a sand area ........ all the camels' sh*tholes are reportedly facing east/southeast toward the White House.
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Yes............ but it looks like even some people in Chicago are starting to get hip to The The Skinny Ghoulish Fraud Obama.
.... in our dreams.
Stick it in some south side shithole where it belongs.
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