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. We’re 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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I guess they might jazz it up a bit if they bronze those clipboards.
Unless Valerie Jarret and his other cronies own land nearby and can profit from this sight, they can forget it!
poorly as obammy has done negros I’m surprised the Southeast Side of Chicago wants this shrine to the incompetent oaf.
Gotta believe black yut unemployment there is skyrocketing.
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