Posted on 07/05/2014 2:52:45 PM PDT by John W
ARLINGTON, Va. Among the rival locations in Chicago for the Obama library and museum, the most majestic one hugs the Lake Michigan shore on the Southeast Side with a stunning view of the Chicago skyline.
More than pretty, the Chicago Lakeside site has vast potential to trigger massive related economic growth and create jobs in an often ignored part of the city. With a presidential library and museum as an anchor, large-scale private investment that otherwise might take a generation to occur could happen in a decade.
It is the most incredibly beautiful site in the city of Chicago, developer Dan McCaffery is telling me as we discuss the bid for the library and museum he submitted to the Barack Obama Foundation last month. Were talking in the suburban Washington office of his Chicago-based firm, where I had an exclusive look at the bid.
McCaffery, in a partnership with U.S. Steel, is offering the foundation free land: a prime location near 79th and the lake, the eastern-most point of the 589-acre Chicago Lakeside project.
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Appears near “Rainbow Beach Park”, also appropriate.
Well this is it, right here on the Chicago River.
Books?
Books? At this time night, here?
I think you want the Obama Bath House on Wacker Drive.
They already have one with everything Obama has produced in his lifetime.
These grand edifices to every cat and dog past president are embarrassing.
They have more in common with temples to Roman Emperors, than research sites in a republic.
More embarrassing is this cat/dog we elected twice.
It can’t be on the shore, it’ll be under water soon.
That image is the correct one when finished.
CONSTRUCTION READY
That is America prepared by the OOOOOOOOOOObama.
It looks mostly empty, so the symbolism is good. And, anyone who’s been to Chicago knows that that massive empty deck would be usable maybe 3 months a year (or less). Or perhaps they could use it for sledding or luge? Chicago is the perfect place for the Obama memorial.
In terms of economic development, has anyone heard about the Clinton museum’s effect on the section of LIttle Rock where it’s located? If this man develops the area, it will drive the populations that have lived there for generations out, as it becomes gentrified. It’s exactly what’s happened to Washington DC. All the poor/working class blacks have been forced to move as the yuppies move in.
Hey!!
Don't tell me that Obama finally stumbled on to a "SHOVEL READY" project !!!
His liebrary should be inside a federal prison.
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Lacks enough space for pens, phones and tribute to golf.
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*snicker*
If global warming is as bad as Glorious Leader says, shouldn’t his library be further inland?
The bathhouse photo is precious!
good Job!
How about Dearborn, Michigan? That’s where most the muzzies live.
A toxic waste dump
It’s better than the Clinton’s library.
Yes.
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