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Originally Posted by Chi-Sky21
Talk about cornering the market..... Maybe they sell the land for the other one once the new one is built. If someone could combine that chunk of land with the section along the river...could put up something pretty decent on the river and nobody would probably complain.
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I don't think they have any desire to close the existing one. It's actually a gas station with a mini strip mall in it, there used to be a really good pizza place in there and a place called "Just Turkey", lol.
Possibly has to do with the snarled traffic at that intersection, it's sometimes difficult to get in/out of the gas station especially if you're going NB on Halsted or EB on Division... a gas station kitty-corner is easier to pull into from those directions.
Personally I am sad that the City didn't buy up the old Milwaukee Road tracks through here. We could have had a streetcar/light rail line from Merchandise Mart to Wrigley Field, through the west part of Lincoln Park. The north part would duplicate the Red Line a little but the south part could have been a great impetus for walkable, dense redevelopment in River North, Cabrini and North/Clybourn areas. Instead we got 3 decades of urban Schaumburg and the traffic congestion to go with it. Hopefully the city does not repeat this mistake with the North Branch and actually builds the transitway they keep talking about.