Posted on 08/16/2021 5:32:39 PM PDT by Libloather
As construction crews on Monday began preliminary work on the $700 million Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, a local advocacy group was prepping for another run at stopping it.
Protect Our Parks said it would appeal a federal court judge’s decision to deny its emergency request to halt construction. The group is among several that have battled the Obama Foundation in court to move the complex two miles away to Washington Park.
Protect Our Parks and other neighborhood organizations want the center built farther south because they believe it will better bolster a needier area with jobs and development, and will not impact Dusable Lake Shore Drive or eat up Lake Michigan parkland. And while the long-awaited Obama Center project has drawn the attention of developers and investors to the South Side, Jackson Park neighbors fear it will bring more gentrification and price hikes that will squeeze them out of their homes.
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The Obama Center, which is not an official presidential library, will take about four years to develop its four buildings.
Epstein said his next court effort will be aimed at keeping construction crews from taking down hundreds of trees in Jackson Park beginning in September. Jarrett said last month that only 350 trees would be taken down - the foundation said many were small or diseased - but Epstein thinks it’s more like 800.
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$700,000,000 for Barry’s mosque.
Hey, they need a place to house all of his unsold books. :)
Let Obama pay for it. No body except investigative reporters looking for smoking guns will go there anyway, and doubtless they will be ejected for being what they are. He can get a second mortgage on his Martha’s Vineyard mansion, as I see no value in it at all.
The Kenyanesian Usurper does not deserve so much as an outhouse.
He was never a natural born citizen and was never eligible to be President.
ALL of our elected AND appointed abrogated the Constitution when they swore him in.
Obama the peace maker.
Humble servant of the people.
Even the white people.
And that really old guy he had for VP.
8 years.
How tone deaf. How about helping people in Chicago with homeless shelters with that 700 mil? Pos.
The ego of that idiot is unbelievable. Who the hell throws a huge birthday party for themselves like that? Never in a million years would I be so assuming and arrogant, and an “Obama center” in the middle of a park costing almost a billion dollars? Is this guy kidding me?
There needs to be lots of BLM graffiti on it in honor of Dorkbama’s, lies, and general incompetence. Let’s give (dis)honor where it is most certainly due. After all, dissing gubmit buildings was OK, so hopefully the favor will be returned. And returned again.
Think he’ll engrave his two autobios in gold and exclaim they were the real Mormon tablets?
King Fool, destroyer of the Democrat party wants to build a temple to himself.
Every time the surveying stakes are put in they should be taken down.
Name a sewage treatment plant after him and exhibit a few turds in glass cases with his and Mooch’s names on them. Much cheaper and more historically accurate.
Build it in Kenya.
I work in Chicago. That’s hardcore Democrats neighborhood and they don’t want Obama center
The equivalent would be to tear apart a big chunk of Central Park to build an ugly Stalinist building to memorialize Andrew Cuomo.
So the community organizer thinks it’s appropriate to spend 70 million dollars on a temple to his greatness instead of using such funds to assist the community!
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