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More than 100 U of C faculty members who say they support the location of an Obama Center near the campus nevertheless are opposing plans for it on economic and preservation grounds.
They say the center's proposed location lacks room to jump-start economic development, and its footprint will consume parts of historic Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. "Not only are public lands being given to a private entity but the public will pay to have Cornell Drive closed and Stony Island Avenue and Lake Shore Drive widened," at an estimated cost to taxpayers of more than $100 million, the faculty wrote in a letter.
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"We are concerned that rather than becoming a bold vision for urban living in the future it will soon become an object-lesson in the mistakes of the past," the group wrote.
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Mitchell, author of a book, "Landscape and Power," attended community meetings hosted by backers of the Obama Center and found them patronizing, he said. Compared with long presentations, he said, there was little time for questions from the audience.
Does this not sound like Obama... who cares about economic development when I'm being honored... expensive using other people's money... patronizing to others, no time to hear their concerns...
Finally, some smart people are waking up, and kudos to those professors who are (for a change) seeing the light. Darth Barry does not really deserve a library no matter where it gets built.
It deserves to be an ugly building if it's to exist at all. It will be one that nobody will visit.
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