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Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280
I think this is a case where Arson could be a good thing... If the hospital were to burn to the ground, wouldn't they be forced to reconsider their "preservation". Or would the morons try to reconstruct it in the name of history...
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"Preservation" was only a ploy in their scattergun approach hoping something would stick.
In the end, they won with the dry vote. So if it burned down, it would be an empty lot eyesore, rather than a dilapidated hospital eyesore. That said, there is nice zoning on this site (FAR 5.0), so if Hairston played ball and let a proposal sail through the Lakefront Protection Ordinance extortion stage of the approval process, we could potentially be blessed with a highrise designed to maximize the blockage of light and air available to the adjacent Vista Homes.
More likely, this will become yet another ages-old rotting monument to Hyde Park's crippling NIMBYism, joining many other stunted redevelopment sites slowly sucking ever more life from the neighborhood.
One of the biggest residential booms in the city in decades and decades from 2000-2007, and Hyde Park got... what done, exactly? They streetscaped some of 53rd Street. There were a few townhouse developments in the late 1990s. Bravo. Still losing residents and residences - and with them will follow ever more business.