Jacob Peters

Trying to shift more of my housing opinions to bluesky, so find me over there with the same handle. I still will be here to respond to discourse on this site & boost content that originates here, but you might see fewer original posts by me on this site.

@PYZC773 They are legally downtown.

Def a personal opinion: I understand why some folks say so, but idk that Fulton Market/West Loop and South Loop count as downtown Chicago (for me at least)

@foxyjewishmama They do not seem to be selling these at the store, & clicking on the order now links redirects immediately back to the home page. So I guess I will never know if that Kamala sandwich slaps or not.

@ninth_amendment @Ian_Gay_briel @foxyjewishmama The Donald should have just been a raw chicken breast slathered in dulcolax liquid on a stale bun

Fantastic piece about how adding supply to our rental markets improves affordability for all. wesa.fm/development-tr…

@JGrantGlover It got lost in the announcement that Related was pursuing 2 stadiums on the site (a throw back to the 1967 proposal for what is now Dearborn Park) stadiumpage.com/concepts/Chica…

I missed this story on Friday. Kind of wild how incredibly cooked all of Chicago's megaprojects all.

@jcliffordknecht @JGrantGlover He’s not selling the Bulls. His son likes the Bulls.

@VazquezOchoa @dadawg77 @JGrantGlover Article also mentions using existing office space downtown, which was harder to come by when the project was first announced, but now can be had for a song.

@dadawg77 @JGrantGlover I think the article mentions that they will open offices in the new US steel area. so yeah, it's simply more efficient/betetr risk allocation

@jibreeladonna It's not. There is an actual eyesore across the street already.

"already crowded neighborhood" is such a galling NIMBY way of saying "I got mine & I'm slamming the door closed behind me" There are multiple 5 story buildings already on this block. This low of a parking ratio is not out of keeping w/ many nearby buildings that have no parking.

@mollyfleck An MLS stadium is likely to be larger than the USL stadium that was proposed & the park land that is proposed for this site would need to be relocated somewhere within the development. So it probably involves amending at least 4 of the sub areas.

@mollyfleck That was the original plan, but was killed by opposition from neighbors. I am skeptical that such a deal can get done since it would require amending the planned development, which feels like a third rail.

Lincoln Yards would be perfect for a soccer stadium!

@IvorEkta @cornoisseur @ChiAlderwoman That’ll also crash the economy by removing the same amount of contributors to the economy (both as consumers and employees).

@cornoisseur @ChiAlderwoman The one who will remove 10-20 million people from the housing market

Vice President Harris says we need to build 3 million new homes to lower the cost of housing. Trump says we need to protect single family zoning. @ChiAlderwoman, which one do you support?

@JimA21754232 @Suntimes @chicagobikesox @bikegridnow @ChiCritMass @chi_streets Dan Goodwin is a transportation science denier. outsideonline.com/outdoor-advent…

@tnertz @pancho247365 @ChicagoDPD @Pres_Chicago @CDot Hopefully Pratt because it is the only one that is bike/ped only (606 isn't going to be its own bridge, it's a side path on the new Dominick/Throop bridge.

@ArchiJake @pancho247365 @ChicagoDPD @Pres_Chicago @CDot Agreed…Find me another bridge that leads to a 3 way intersection I wonder which bridge will get finished first. Pratt, Taylor, Division, 606, or Dominick st.

CDC approved @CDOT's request for authority to acquire 15,000 square feet of land at 968 and 1010 S. Wells St. The sites would be used for a multimodal bridge on Taylor Street between Canal and Wells, an infrastructure goal identified when the TIF district was established in 2019.

@rwsolinski @stevevance @itskylelucas Yeah, & providing that access by car for 1/2 mile trips instead of bike ped only will increase car traffic in the area more compared to if residents of those developments only used their cars to access highways via 18th or Ida B. Wells. Such an outdated planning solution.

@ArchiJake @stevevance @itskylelucas the point is to accommodate new development in the wells st corridor that doesn’t have access to roosevelt. although personally i’m hoping this will allow a re-evaluation of roosevelt and proper bus/bike lanes there..,

@tnertz @pancho247365 @ChicagoDPD @Pres_Chicago @CDot This is also why the Concord bridge should be bike ped only in Lincoln Yards, it's a recipe for congestion on side streets.

@tnertz @pancho247365 @ChicagoDPD @Pres_Chicago @CDot Especially since Taylor dead ends at Wells. This will create additional traffic on Wells north to Polk. If this was a bike/ped only bridge it might actually cause modal shift by making walking & cycling the fastest way to access the stores west of the river from the housing east.

@pancho247365 @ChicagoDPD @Pres_Chicago @CDot Build it and the traffic will come

@ChicagoDPD @CDot Due to the dead end of Taylor at Wells, this should be a bike & pedestrian only bridge. As such a bit of infrastructure would actually encourage a modal shift, since both would be more convenient for accessing the shopping west of the river than driving.

@rwsolinski @stevevance @itskylelucas It also doesn’t need to be a car bridge, & it might be detrimental to traffic flow for it to accommodate car traffic given that Taylor doesn’t continue under the Metra tracks.

@stevevance @itskylelucas well, taylor has to be operable (first new bascule bridge since columbus drive in the 70s) so yes, much more $. on the other hand, they don’t have to keep traffic flowing and there’s tons of room to stage the work.

@stevevance @JGrantGlover North/Damen making it to the final was kind of nonsense. It’s bad, but there are so many worse intersections that it beat. We still should make that intersection safer by eliminating all diagonal non bus traffic.

Looking at the results of the Axios bracket, I couldn't believe 79th/Stony Island lost in the first round. Then I looked at the intersection that beat it. Good god this is grotesque.