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THE OBAMA CENTER AS CURRENTLY PLANNED WILL NOT PROVIDE THE PROMISED DEVELOPMENT OR ECONOMIC BENEFITS TO THE NEIGHBORHOODS” ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO.
No, it doesn’t get any worse when more than 100 professors and faculty members from the University of Chicago, where Barack Obama once taught, is protesting against the building of the Obama Presidential Center, and slamming the proposal as “socially regressive”.
Fox News reported:
They complain that since the center will be located near an existing museum and the University of Chicago, there will be no land to start new businesses or restaurants nearby.
“We are concerned that rather than becoming a bold vision for urban living in the future it will soon become an object-lesson in the mistakes of the past,” the letter says.
The letter also slams a proposed 450-car parking lot as “socially regressive,” claiming that it “privileges cars and those who can afford them.”
Finally, the letter complains that Chicago taxpayers will be forced to foot a bill of “hundreds of millions of dollars” and that the widening of the Lake Shore Drive expressway alone could cost over $100 million.
Turns out, Chicago was told there is supposed to be a presidential library administered by the National Archives, but instead the Obama Presidential Center is a privately operated entertainment campus with a 235-foot-tall tower.
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