Chicagoist: F&O Pulls Out of Sullivan Center

MK

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:21:21 -0600

Ad, That is a retail space and it needs to be occupied by retailers. You don't just put a musuem in the middle of a major shopping district. Does it look to you like the retailers nearby are the type that focuses on the people who would be going to the musuem (mothers and their children)? No. The State Street/Wabash area is the way that it is in large part because of years of analysis and planning. I find it astonishing that you think that it makes sense just to randomely place something in a space without the slightest thought to whether it fits the area. And you do realize that if that were to be done it means the city would be throwing away millions and millions of dollers in sales tax revenue that it would get from that space, right? Do you think that makes sense? Or would you be the first person to start complaining when the city has to raise taxes to make up for this?

matty

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:28:26 -0600

asking rents and what the economy can support are two very disparate things in this city right now. A correction could and (maybe should?) take place very soon.

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:51:47 -0600

Um, what else could occupy 40,000 sq ft of space close to the loop and millenium park? The children's museum maybe? Instead of destroying green space that is suppose to remain free and clear (and spending a fortune in the process), why can't the city pull its head out of its ass and repurpose an already renovated beautiful old building? Doesn't fit into Daley's plans for a lakefront legacy I suppose.