The BS is always deep in Chicago.
A safe buffer? For the drug dealers.
Next, the city will give the land away to get some revenue out of it. But to very special friends.
IMO, there would be more labor hours in the original proposal than in new buildings. And the way things are headed in Chiraq, good luck with financing in a dying downtown.
Perhaps destroy the Fed building instead?
From a pragmatic standpoint, there’s no reason to preserve these buildings just because they are old. In fact, that’s probably the best reason to demolish them.
That being said, the property should be redeveloped based on the needs and desires of the locals, not the Fed. Why does Fedzilla have this kind of power and authority over local development? I see nothing in the Constitution that allows this.
Would the beneficiaries be the city or the Feds?
Wild thought - could this be an alternate site for the Obama Library?