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Bury Lake Shore Drive, especially near Oak Street Beach and north of there. That land is way too precious to be wasted on cars racing down the Drive and apparently, rich Lakefront patrons are willing to pay for it or at least a large part of it.

Is it too late to apologize to George Lucas and get his museum built on that eyesore of a parking lot?

The AMPAS Museum should have no problem privately raising $1 million for their project. $100 million shouldn’t be a problem! Consider the wealth of its membership. Heck, George Lucas alone funded a new film campus at USC to the tune of $175 million, $1 million is like a week’s CSI actor paycheck. Come on Hollywood. Pony up! The city you built is quickly disintegrating and moving to Georgia.

I agree and hope they produce a clearly modern, fresh design for the new musuem.

The Lucas buildings, designed by Gensler, are pretty lame..merely a caricature of the army barracks style of buildings that mostly dominate the Presidio.

Thankfully, our illustrious planning department is not allowed to mess with the design, otherwise the new museum would end up looking like a woodsy hunting shack.

Just read this in regard to this project:
 
"Those involved with the selection process said Chicago became a shoo-in when it offered 17 acres for the Lucas project. That much space allowed the museum to be more than a building. It will include landscaping that fits with the broader ecosystem. "

Apparently the "Friends of the parks" prefer a parking lot for some reason?

Sadly, I think George Lucas will ultimately pull out of Chicago. My guess is he will build it in LA. The legal battle will drag on for months or years and the project seems too important to him to continue waiting.

I am very much for this museum and am as equally frustrated as other commentators here that FOTparkinglots is stymieing this development.

It’s comforting to know that San Francisco (where I lived for 40+ years) isn’t the only significant American city where a bunch of narrow-minded, determined, and selfish (can you spell NIMBY?) individuals can halt progress. George Lucas should just say "fu.k it" and not build the museum. I would certainly understand. Life is too short to tilt at windmills.

Thank you, Chicago !! We can all be thankful that this eyesore will not land in Crissy Field, or on the SF Bay waterfront. Fortunately, cooler heads determined that Lucas / Star Wars just isn’t that culturally significant, so as to justify imposing this on prime San Francisco locales.

The good news — Combined with the flying saucer atop Soldier Field, Lucas’s museum gives Chicago the inside track for the next "Men in Black" locale (Ha!)

@lakewatch:

"Lucas, take your aliens to another site."

This is exactly the attitude that caused San Francisco to lose the museum. Chicago must not let these lake front purists deprive us of a project that will not only bring the city badly needed revenue, but further enhance the cultural offerings of the lakefront. The lakefront should offer the public more interesting options than sitting there and watching grass grow.

Hi, I’m George Lucas and I need a ‘museum’ to put all the crap that I used in my sophomoric movies about families that couldn’t communicate well along with my views of black and white morality – since a warehouse wasn’t sufficient. Good riddance what a turd. I wonder what the exhibit about stars I-III will look like?? It clearly won’t be about the terrible acting or will it?

Uh, Lucas really DIDN’T have a choice…