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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown
I know I'm the only person who continues to tilt at this particular windmill, but just for comparison: An entire suburban Walmart costs about $14 million to build. The Tollway Authority yesterday approved an entire interchange at Route 47 (to be built under traffic at Davis-Bacon rates) for $36 million. The new eight-story Jones HS at State & Polk is only $90 million.
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^ You are not the only one tilting at that windmill.
This is exactly why America is building such little mass transit right now. Chicago just keeps sucking property/business owners dry so that they can overpay contractors for this kind of stuff.
Anyhow, I hope this station spurs some development around the site. Right now there are some nice little places for drunken grub, but otherwise those vacant lots and that god-awful drive thru White Castle need to go. I really wish the redevelopment of the Hilliard Homes had included something to enforce the State/Cermak streetwall, but alas we have a fortress behind a sea of empty grass...