No real 'forward progress': ChicagoBears redevelopment at Arlington_Park could take at least a decade, ArlingtonHtsGov officials lament
That's amid the additional planning, studies, negotiations and approvals still to come, though officials didn't provide a more exact timeline during a village board committee meeting that was mostly focused on what they've done to date.
Trustee Jim Tinaglia -- a critic of the Bears' initial $5 billion mixed-use redevelopment plans for the shuttered racetrack -- also made allusions to football, noting there's been no real"forward progress" in revisions to the site design presented by the Bears last fall. "We thought we'd be further along than we are today," said Charles Witherington-Perkins, the village's director of planning and community development.
Costin argued approving the permit would be an"enormous risk" to taxpayers, especially if legislation giving the Bears a massive property tax break in Springfield is approved. Or, he said, if the village approves a tax increment financing district, where property taxes are steered away from local governments into the development.
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