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Originally Posted by Randomguy34
It's not much, but an image in the Crain's article about the new Damen station shows the United Center parking lots as future mixed-use developments. If plans are currently in the works, then this would be major boom for the Near West Side. I would imagine an immediate land rush of anything west of Damen
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Although I'm really happy they are finally building a station out there, I'm guessing this will cost somewhere in the $50m+. Is there a reason we have to build only mega stations now and can't just build something similar to what Lincoln Park or Lakeview stops have? Perhaps you could then build 2-3 stations instead of 1. The Cermak station was around $40m and looks like crap less than 5 years later when a simple platform & canopy likely would have sufficed.