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Well, I think the point is that you CAN develop a neighborhood on a challenging site and still have the developer pick up the necessary infrastructure... but is that really what we want?

As Tom mentioned, that required a lot of tradeoffs and compromises. Not all of the streets in the SOM master plan were built, Magellan weaseled out of building a public school, and there were no transit improvements to the area so the neighborhood is functionally auto-centric and dependent on Wacker and Lakeshore Drive. Even if Magellan had wanted to build transit, that's not something they could do unilaterally, the city would have to lead the process.

Love or hate Lincoln Yards, but the city holds the pursestrings on all the infrastructure projects and they have the power to hold Sterling Bay to their word as stipulated in the Redevelopment Agreement. This arrangement offers the city, and the public, more control over the development than the PD process has done at Lakeshore East. If we want Sterling Bay to prioritize the transitway so that already clogged streets don't get worse, then talk to your alderman - they have the power to make that happen.