Uptown wants to subsidize luxury apartment construction, call it market rate to try and make it look like a"Hot Neighborhood".
Uptown wants to be a leader in subsidized-yet-market-rate-housing and deserves to lose. Uptown deserves to lose for electing a dim-witted puppet of an Ald. Cappleman who just wants Uptown to be lame as freaking possible. Like a cheaper version of Lakeview but without the alcohol or restaurants or non-white people under 40. That is the lame direction of the "new" Uptown.
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Uptown should never win. It’s a godawful hellhole. There is a REASON gentrification has moved past Uptown into Edgewater (yay Bryn Mawr!): it’s because Uptown sucks, no matter how much gloss certain advocates try to shellac onto it.
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@guest #5:
I live in Uptown myself for a few years. Loved my unit and most of my neighbors, but there were many nights when I would hear the gunshots and witnessed a stabbing first hand walking my dog. Needless to say, I no longer live in Uptown. Let’s not pretend Uptown is safe.
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Guest #5 sounds bitter and misinformed.
The Loop, both this year and the past ten years, is better in every single aspect than Uptown. Every. Single. Aspect. Everyone knows this besides Uptown residents, or people who seem to think that getting rid of an old terrible Alderman overshadows the embarrassing problems of crime and urban decay which exemplify Uptown.
I laugh at all the pu$$ies who think Uptown is really dangerous, and getting worse. There is a small section of the Uptown community area that is very problematice, the rest of Uptown is actually quite nice.
@3, the AON garage is sitting there on Broadway. Plenty of parking, no need for another garage.