Eventually downtown growth will swallow up the south loop, and the only liability in that area will be the inward-oriented fortress of suburbia right in the middle--Dearborn Park I & II, with its impenetrable walls of brick. The only east-west connections will be Roosevelt Road. Not good.
The South loop has enormous potential to be a successful neighborhood--but we may eventually have two prongs of great development--west of Clark and east of State--isolated from eachother.
With intense NIMBYism in mind, especially the huge resistance to pulling out the wrecking ball and starting over, what can/should/will the city do about this? Does anybody have an idea how this problem should be addressed/solved in the future?
How can we remake Dearborn Park in a way that it will interact more with the future south loop, and will perform a better function as a gateway between the two prongs of development, as opposed to as a giant wall. Can we facelift this development in some way? Does anybody have any thoughts, ideas, plans they'd like to share?> |
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