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Alex Pope
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Alex Pope
@AlexRpope
2004 Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident historian
Chicago, IL Katılım Şubat 2016
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Happy @MLB #OpeningDay!
Repost and reply for a chance to win a World Baseball Classic cap!
MLB@MLB
BASEBALL IS BACK ⚾ Happy Opening Day!
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Let’s Celebrate PCA extension through 2032.
I’m going to giveaway 4 pairs of tickets for this season. Will work with the winners to pick a game date (not opening day) view is estimated.
Like and comment with how many home runs PCA hits this season by 9pm 3/25 central.
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Alex Pope retweetledi
🚨OPENING DAY GIVEAWAY🚨
In honor of the White Sox being BACK, we’re giving away a Munetaka Murakami jersey!
To enter;
-Like & Retweet this post
-Follow @JAYChi_WhiteSox
-Comment “Go Sox”
Winner announced 3/27
*Make sure it’s us if you win
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@TallRomanStatue @minc798 One of the most famous Chicago architects of all time, Mies van der Rohe pioneered the steel and glass skyscraper
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Modernist slop. There is nothing uniquely "Chicago" about this building. Every window looks the same, every balcony identical, as if to celebrate conformity.
American architectural styles evolved over thousands of years before we started manufacturing glass and steel boxes in 1950.
Old buildings have carvings, gargoyles, cornices, brickwork, etc. They echo their time and place, and celebrate the distinctiveness of their location.
If architecture is going to improve again, we need to embrace detail, sculpture, and ornementation. We need buildings to reflect our glorious past and future.
Tragedy is that this structure might be expressing the mood of today, as dystopian blandness reigns supreme
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Renderings out for new high rise proposal for Sheridan & Diversey in Lakeview East, near Lincoln Park and just a couple blocks from the lake.
Will be 303 units on what looks like 25 floors, with 10K sq ft of ground floor commercial space. 150 total parking spots.
B Talent@minc798
A new ~300 residential high rise is being planned for the NW corner of Diversey & Sheridan in Lakeview newr Diversey Harbor. Height unsure as of now. It's currently a 6 story medical building purchase recently by this developer for over $17M. Apparently 300 units is w/in zoning
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Alex Pope retweetledi
🚨Derrick Rose Jersey Giveaway🚨
In honor of Derrick Rose's jersey retirement, we're giving away his jersey! 🌹
To enter:
-Like & RT this tweet
-Follow @JAYChi_Bulls
-Comment "Rose!"
*Extra entries in the thread
Winner announced 1/25
*Make sure it's us if you're selected
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RT for a chance to win this SIGNED D-Rose jersey 🌹
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@theforgivenjuan @MicheleSteele Probably because the bears aren’t building in the city of Chicago lol
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@MicheleSteele So what you’re saying is the city paid for infrastructure for the bulls blackhawks and fire but refuse to do so for the bears. Got it
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The Bulls and Blackhawks got approval for their $7 billion privately funded massive development project around United Center - they're asking for a new CTA station and better pedestrian infrastructure, relatively minor asks. The Chicago Fire stadium also privately funded on a site where public funds for infrastructure were approved years ago, for the riverwalk and seawall rehabilitation. The Bears are asking for nearly $1 billion in infrastructure (roads, sewers, transit) for a stadium that doesn't yet exist miles outside the city, and a long term property tax freeze. It's a huge ask!
The city wants the Bears to build at a former hospital site and they might have an easier time getting funds there from the sounds of it... but the heart wants what it wants (NW Indiana or Arlington Heights or ?)
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@JoeRicketts23 @todd1967 @danpompei We can agree to disagree, at the end of the day, funding or no funding, this has been an absolute disaster for everyone involved
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@AlexRpope @todd1967 @danpompei Do you think the 2 stadiums being announced are anywhere close to the scale that the Bears stadium will be?
Or will those stadiums produce anywhere close to the same revenue the Bears will?
The answer is a resounding no. (Also the UC got a major tax break when it was built)
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Understand a few things here.
1. The Bears don't want to play in Indiana.
2. Almost every major stadium in America was built with some degree of a public-private partnership. This one will be too.
3. The Bears have been frustrated by stadium negotiations with Illinois/Chicago since before most of us were born.
4. It had to come to this.
Dan Pompei@danpompei
Nothing surprising here. Without support from the state of Illinois, they're going to be the Indiana Bears.
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@JoeRicketts23 @todd1967 @danpompei Talking about the new $8billion district not the United center itself, and yes the United center district will absolutely beat the new bears stadium revenue because they play 16x as many games at 1/3 of the capacity and host concerts year round.
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@JoeRicketts23 @todd1967 @danpompei Sure, nonetheless, 2 stadiums and an entire United Center district that are recieving $0 in public funding have been announced with shovels in the ground within Chicagoland this past year. Why should the wealthiest team out of all of them need public handouts?
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@AlexRpope @todd1967 @danpompei Lol I know you are just being intentionally dramatic for the sake of your argument, but no, they would not double or anywhere close to that.
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@JoeRicketts23 @todd1967 @danpompei A little help and nearly $1billion in infrastructure are very different things. Why should someone in Arlington Heights property taxes double for a parking lot and an offramp to a stadium that a team plays in 8 times per year.
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@AlexRpope @todd1967 @danpompei You think a company that comes in looking to spend over $2 billion on a project in the state is not going to ask for a little help?
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@JoeRicketts23 @todd1967 @danpompei I guess I fail to see how this legitimizes a multi billion dollar corporation shifting their own financial burden to taxpayers for a product they will then sell back to the taxpayers who are now already paying for it. If I can’t afford a Ferrari it’s not someone else’s job to pay
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@AlexRpope @todd1967 @danpompei Both stadiums were funded by two ownership groups.
So yes, they should not need any sort of help.
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@JoeRicketts23 @todd1967 @danpompei Both privately financed?? Just like the brand new northwestern stadium getting built in Evanston with $0 in tax payer subsidies
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@AlexRpope @todd1967 @danpompei Gillette had tax help and infrastructure help.
Also what does SoFi and MetLife have in common?
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@JoeRicketts23 @todd1967 @danpompei SoFi, MetLife, Gillette, Chase Center, Intuit Dome, all privately funded in their entirety.
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@todd1967 @danpompei Renovations yes. Building an entire stadium from the ground up is a different ball game entirely.
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@tmac05_ @armedcyclist @RedditCFB Love the background in architecture, I am an urban planner. What I can say from experience is that $850 million will balloon out of control the longer it takes to get a deal done, and polarizing your city/state is probably not going to get you any bargaining points. Just a mess.
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@AlexRpope @armedcyclist @RedditCFB Sorry, I mis-read and didn’t see the “today money” part
What I do know, is that when things are essentially the same, a lot of that time and cost up front of planning and designing is not nearly as costly.
(My background in working for an architecture firm) so that could be why.
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The Big Ten’s humblest team is building an $800M stadium, entirely with private financing, right in Evanston.
One of the NFL’s most historic franchises now says they may be too poor to stay in Illinois, and will go begging hat in hand for taxpayer funded handouts in Indiana.
Paris Schutz@paschutz
Chicago Bears President Kevin Warren pens a letter to season ticket holders stating the stadium search will expand once again - to encompass all of Chicagoland and NW Indiana, noting frustration at the lack of legislative help to build in Arlington Heights
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@armedcyclist @RedditCFB Going off quotes that was given. Also Allegiant cost 1.9. At least use correct numbers lol.
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