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What Wrigleyville needs more than anything is wider sidewalks....
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^The design has become a little less interesting since that rendering, but still overall way better than the Taco Bell. Also, the climbing gym is mainly on the second and third floors; the first floor has other retail (no named tenants as far as I know). So maybe you will get your fast food chains after all.
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Yeah but will it have a drive thru? If no drive thru how can we call Chicago a world class A+ alpha Master race of cities city?
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That climbing gym doesn't look like its tall enough to have anything worth climbing inside.
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Any progress on the annex? Last I saw, they torn down that captain restaurant.
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And just a side note, my friends and I were remarking how the exact location where we were having a lovely, fancy pants brunch was a suburban McDonald's parking lot across from a donut shack and a car wash just a few years back. Nobody misses that shit. Nobody. |
^^^ I thought for sure you would have been having a conversation about how the neighborhood has gone to shit....
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New Wrigleyville Taco Bell at Belmont and Clark beside the El is open (Wrigley Report) |
^ and that's how it should be.
force the retail establishment to fit the built environment; not force the built environment to fit the (horribly misguided) retail establishment. |
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And some legitemate affordable services like fast food and discount stores never hurts the urbanity of a city IMHO. :runaway: |
^^^ Amenities are why people live in cities, we generally have a retail vacancy problem, better a Taco Bell than nothing. Other, more interesting, non chain businesses will find another area to locate if they run out of space here because Taco Bell took it...
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Thanks for those shots.
It has been such a treat to watch the neighborhood transform over the past couple of years. Friends and I went to brunch at Dutch and Doc's a couple of weeks back and we just kept remarking how we were having fancy brunch in a beautiful gastropub with a cool af vibe and a postcard view of the marquee in what was a dreary suburban McDonald's parking lot for far too many years. I get off the L at night now and think about going west for a quick beer instead of just beating it straight home. |
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