Comments on: The Proximate Principle: Open Space is Sound Fiscal Policy http://modeshift.org/419/the-proximate-principle-open-space-is-sound-fiscal-policy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-proximate-principle-open-space-is-sound-fiscal-policy Chronicling the American Transition Mon, 14 May 2012 12:33:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Keith Schneider http://modeshift.org/419/the-proximate-principle-open-space-is-sound-fiscal-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-1386 Keith Schneider Tue, 08 May 2007 12:14:39 +0000 http://modeshift.org/?p=162#comment-1386 Ne plus ultra: I stand by the reporting and don't find evidence of your assertions about development around the park or its use. The area south of the park, behind the Hilton, and even along South Michigan had been in decline for years. It is no longer and its revival coincides with the planning, design, construction, and opening of the park. In interviews, city officials confirmed what the new housing permit numbers were already saying. Millennium Park was prompting a new wave of growth. So there you have it, the facts as portrayed in city data and your own impressions and attitudes which differ. Thanks for writing, Keith Ne plus ultra:
I stand by the reporting and don’t find evidence of your assertions about development around the park or its use. The area south of the park, behind the Hilton, and even along South Michigan had been in decline for years. It is no longer and its revival coincides with the planning, design, construction, and opening of the park. In interviews, city officials confirmed what the new housing permit numbers were already saying. Millennium Park was prompting a new wave of growth. So there you have it, the facts as portrayed in city data and your own impressions and attitudes which differ. Thanks for writing, Keith

]]> By: ne plus ultra http://modeshift.org/419/the-proximate-principle-open-space-is-sound-fiscal-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-1385 ne plus ultra Tue, 08 May 2007 04:52:49 +0000 http://modeshift.org/?p=162#comment-1385 Your discussion of Millennium Park is absurd. The neighborhoods around the park have been adding high-priced units for 2 decades. The South Loop was already gentrifying in 1988. I'm not against green space, and I'm certainly no anti-global warming lunatic. But you have to get the numbers right. Millennium Park is an example of just the opposite -- a city spending inordinate amounts of money on a downtown full of yuppies, while many neighborhoods are starved for greenspace. And Millennium Park was ALREADY a park anyway. If anything, there is less green space there now as a result of all the things that now have footprints over there -- the dance theater, the expanded music shell, the Park Grille (a corrupt deal that typifies the city's political culture - as well as a crappy, ugly little bar taking up prime real estate.) Your discussion of Millennium Park is absurd. The neighborhoods around the park have been adding high-priced units for 2 decades. The South Loop was already gentrifying in 1988.

I’m not against green space, and I’m certainly no anti-global warming lunatic. But you have to get the numbers right.

Millennium Park is an example of just the opposite — a city spending inordinate amounts of money on a downtown full of yuppies, while many neighborhoods are starved for greenspace. And Millennium Park was ALREADY a park anyway. If anything, there is less green space there now as a result of all the things that now have footprints over there — the dance theater, the expanded music shell, the Park Grille (a corrupt deal that typifies the city’s political culture – as well as a crappy, ugly little bar taking up prime real estate.)

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