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Originally Posted by southoftheloop
Indeed, a strong argument to be made for the WP site as a greater catalyst for development, but if you want to build a world class museum to your legacy, I would think the choice is pretty obvious to anyone but wonky urbanists...
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The elephant in the room is that most presidential libraries have meh or dismal attendance after a few years, and they depend on college student book clubs and academic conferences to juice the attendance numbers.
Everything depends on a good portion of MSI visitors choosing to extend their time by going around the corner, so that the Obama Presidential Library can maintain healthy attendance for decades to come.
In the best case scenario, tourists would book an extra day for a Hyde Park/Woodlawn itinerary. Together the Library and the UChicago dorms might generate enough foot traffic to spark retail and dining development along 63rd that the Library alone could not achieve.
http://apps.chicagotribune.com/graph...es-attendance/