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December 15, 2004
Community Activism - Gold Coast Style
I attended a "community forum" tonight. It was held in the Ritz Carlton's grand ballroom, on the 12th floor under a massive crystal lightpiece and all the elegant decorations that make the Chicago Ritz Carlton one of the world's top 100 five-star hotels. Inside were gathered perhaps 250 millionaires and other wealthy Gold Coast property owners. At times it was hard to hear from all the jewelery clanging as people shifted in their chairs. Welcome to the Gold Coast. As the poorest member of this crowd, I wore a ratty faded shirt from 1997, jeans with holes, and an old pair of sneaks I bought from one of the hottest Swedes I ever saw. (OMG, she made Tiger's wife look ugly as Roseanne.)
The topic of conversation is a giant 750-foot tower to be built atop Fourth Presbyterian Church on Michigan Avenue across the street from the Hancock. The church sold the right to the air above the building plus a very small plot of land for $25M. Yes, a developer paid $25M for some air and the right to try to build a structure in that air. The problem is that the building will block views and make traffic even worse, but it will surely be built and become a blight upon the church. But hey, it's their church, and 10% of the congregation voted to sell the air rights, so it shall be. As one resident pointed out: "Fourth Presbyterian does a lot of important things for our neighborhood. I tutored there for four years and just got a letter from the boy I tutored. He's now in prison."
Posted by adrianjo at December 15, 2004 09:35 PM
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