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The Chicago Park District has invited landscape firms to submit their qualifications and ideas to rebuild the north end of Grant Park, transforming 25 acres that includes Daley Bicentennial Plaza, and two smaller areas known as Cancer Survivors Garden and Peanut Park.
The plaza is the area approved for the new Chicago Children’s Museum, and the new landscaping would be installed after the top of the plaza is removed to repair waterproofing covering the East Monroe Street Garage.
The district hopes the new landscaping and redesign will create a dynamic family-oriented link between Millennium Park and the Lakefront, providing something of purpose for the BP Bridge, designed by architect Frank Gehry, to link to. The district will use $35 million from a lease of city parking garages, which should cover landscaping costs. Additional amenities would likely cost extra, but could be paid for through naming rights. [Trib]
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Here is my proposal. From that $35 million dollar fund, take $5 million and give it to the legal fund for the lawsuit to block the Children's Museum project.
Do nothing on this area until the Children's Museum project is dead. Then take the remaining $30 million and do the right thing---remake the area while keeping the park a PARK.
This is Daley's legacy- millions for the few square miles downtown, while streets on the South and West sides crumble into dirt tracks.
hmm..
And another boondoggle gets underway...