Wrigley Renovation Thread

[d_money]

All the crime despite the major police station on Belmont, you'd think it'd be safer

[Sammy Sofa]

All the crime despite the major police station on Belmont, you'd think it'd be safer

 

Severely understaffed; basically no cops want to work in this area and take every opportunity to transfer out once they can.

[SouthSideRyan]

All the crime despite the major police station on Belmont, you'd think it'd be safer

 

Severely understaffed; basically no cops want to work in this area and take every opportunity to transfer out once they can.

 

That's just because they stopped letting them [expletive] drunk girls they pick up.

 

And the station is on Addison. I know because I had to stop there after I got mugged outside my old apartment...a block south of Wrigley.

[KingCubsFan]

Seriously, I would love it if they could escape the hellhole this neighborhood is rapidly becoming:

 

http://crimeinboystown.blogspot.com/2014/06/witnesses-unconscious-woman-sexually.html

 

12:38AM - An apparently unconscious woman becomes the victim of a criminal sexual assault across the street from Wrigley Field outside of Sports World.

 

Guess they cant move to Rosemont, Schaumburg, Naperville, River North or anywhere with a bar scene then. These drunk sexual assaults happen everywhere. The only chance is to move the team to Sandwich, IL i guess.

 

That's just the latest disgusting cherry on top of a turd sundae; Wrigleyville and Boystown have been going to [expletive] for a while, and to chalk it up to just being "bar neighborhood behavior" is bull [expletive] because it's clearly been getting a LOT worse in the last few years. A lot less cops, the local shelters/clubs have no money and are basically out of control, and you have the city as a whole actively fostering a "come party and whatever happens, who gives a [expletive]?" environment Everyone from Tunney to Rahm is desperate to keep what is a veritable crime wave from Belmont to Waveland out of the news; crimes are routinely reclassified to keep from seeming as bad it is, but the area is rife with whatever you want: robberies, assaults, brawls, holdups, bank/store robberies, open prostitution and now sexual assaults and actual homicides. It's a serious issue and a sad, sad downturn that's getting next to no attention. I'd honestly feel safer hanging around the Cell right now than Wrigley.

All very true (except the part about hanging around the Cell). Other than going to a game, I never go to that area.

[Careless]

Seriously, I would love it if they could escape the hellhole this neighborhood is rapidly becoming:

 

http://crimeinboystown.blogspot.com/2014/06/witnesses-unconscious-woman-sexually.html

 

12:38AM - An apparently unconscious woman becomes the victim of a criminal sexual assault across the street from Wrigley Field outside of Sports World.

Oh, come on, the crime rate is plummeting!

[Sammy Sofa]

Seriously, I would love it if they could escape the hellhole this neighborhood is rapidly becoming:

 

http://crimeinboystown.blogspot.com/2014/06/witnesses-unconscious-woman-sexually.html

 

12:38AM - An apparently unconscious woman becomes the victim of a criminal sexual assault across the street from Wrigley Field outside of Sports World.

Oh, come on, the crime rate is plummeting!

 

Yup. Wrigleyville and its surrounding area are the epitome of this. They're desperate to keep the crime numbers as fudged as possible.

[imb]

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[NOLA]

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HA! That's the first thing that popped in my mind too. So where is Hamsterdam?

[Sammy Sofa]

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HA! That's the first thing that popped in my mind too. So where is Hamsterdam?

 

Wrigleyville.

[Sammy Sofa]

Phantom bullets flying across from Wrigley:

 

http://crimeinboystown.blogspot.com/2014/06/abracadabra-crime-stats-wont-include.html

 

The murdered Cubs fan who the police refuse to say was murdered:

 

http://crimeinboystown.blogspot.com/2014/06/jacob-klepacz-case-long-wait-for-science.html

 

Rahm's shell game continues as the neighborhood around Wrigley continues to spiral out of control.

[Guest]

Phantom bullets flying across from Wrigley:

 

http://crimeinboystown.blogspot.com/2014/06/abracadabra-crime-stats-wont-include.html

 

The murdered Cubs fan who the police refuse to say was murdered:

 

http://crimeinboystown.blogspot.com/2014/06/jacob-klepacz-case-long-wait-for-science.html

 

Rahm's shell game continues as the neighborhood around Wrigley continues to spiral out of control.

Why is the crime so bad? Predators of the tourists? I thought the area was gentrified? Why aren't the Yuppies screaming?

[SouthSideRyan]

The yuppies moved west

[Sammy Sofa]

Phantom bullets flying across from Wrigley:

 

http://crimeinboystown.blogspot.com/2014/06/abracadabra-crime-stats-wont-include.html

 

The murdered Cubs fan who the police refuse to say was murdered:

 

http://crimeinboystown.blogspot.com/2014/06/jacob-klepacz-case-long-wait-for-science.html

 

Rahm's shell game continues as the neighborhood around Wrigley continues to spiral out of control.

Why is the crime so bad? Predators of the tourists? I thought the area was gentrified? Why aren't the Yuppies screaming?

 

Over 100 fewer available police in the area than last year. The active fostering of a "who gives a [expletive]" attitude with the bars and not bothering to crack down on overcrowding and overserving. The local clubs and shelters that are severely underfunded and understaffed (and because of the fewer police, no police backup) that kick troubled kids out after any sign of trouble or overcrowding and then they just hang around indefinitely. It's an area with a lot of money and a lot of dumb people and a lot of people willing to prey on that and not nearly enough police to monitor it.

[apete6]

So, the city is leasing lakefront property between soldier Field and Mc Cormick Place to the Lucas Museum for one dollar per year, why wouldn't the cubs take that deal and build a new Wrigley Field there?

[Splendid Splinter]

So, the city is leasing lakefront property between soldier Field and Mc Cormick Place to the Lucas Museum for one dollar per year, why wouldn't the cubs take that deal and build a new Wrigley Field there?

 

 

Wouldn't that become Soldier Field 2.0? Where if you build on that property, the City of Chicago are the rightful owner? The Cubs wouldn't own the stadium so the city would have to come up with the $$$ to build it. I could be totally wrong about this though.

[apete6]

So, the city is leasing lakefront property between soldier Field and Mc Cormick Place to the Lucas Museum for one dollar per year, why wouldn't the cubs take that deal and build a new Wrigley Field there?

 

 

Wouldn't that become Soldier Field 2.0? Where if you build on that property, the City of Chicago are the rightful owner? The Cubs wouldn't own the stadium so the city would have to come up with the $$$ to build it. I could be totally wrong about this though.

 

Lucas is building the museum, not the city, they are just providing the land. I don't really love the location, mostly pointing out the BS of the city bending over backwards for everyone except the Cubs.

[Guest]

http://www.suntimes.com/28400709-761/cubs-wrigley-plan-tweak-will-win-landmarks-panels-ok.html#.U7LjW_ldXFA

 

The Cubs said Monday they’re on the July 10 agenda for the Commission on Chicago Landmarks and expect to win approval for their revised plan to renovate Wrigley Field — including seven outfield signs, two of them video scoreboards — after a tweak to accommodate Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

 

“We’re not prepared to lose another year and jeopardize delivering on the promises we made to our players, our fans and our [advertising] partners,” said Cubs spokesman Julian Green.

 

“We believe the revised expansion plan fits within the guidelines of the Landmarks Commission. We’re confident we’ve addressed all of the outstanding issues and should be going through with our revised plan on July 10th. We took the widening of the bullpen doors off the table. The only material change was those doors.”

 

Last month, Emanuel’s now-departed intergovernmental affairs director Matt Hynes hinted strongly that the Cubs’ stay in the mayor’s doghouse — caused by the wider bullpen doors — would be short-lived.

 

“That was a minor setback, but one that can be overcome. I don’t think it was an intentional effort on the Cubs part to sneak the goods through Customs,” Hynes said then.

 

“Once it came to the mayor’s attention, he made his opinion pretty clear. But you’ve got to look at the big picture. It’s important to have the Cub investment in the park and in the community go forward. So, you move past it. There’s not a whole lot to be gained from harboring bitterness when you’re trying to get a deal done.”

 

Hynes didn’t flinch when asked about Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts’ decision to cut off negotiations with rooftop club owners and return to his original plan for seven outfield signs.

 

“The Cubs perspective is, ‘If we’re going to be going to court, let’s make it all or nothing.’ There is a certain amount of logic to that point of view. They own Wrigley Field. While there are restrictions, they have a right to at least seek the ability to do what they want with their park,” Hynes said.

 

“It’s not for the mayor and certainly not for me to tell them they don’t have that right. So, we support their right to do what they think is appropriate. But there is a process. They know that and they have to go through it.”

 

To get out of the mayor’s doghouse and get the revised stadium project back on track for a July groundbreaking, the Cubs dropped plans to double the width of the bullpen doors and apologized for the team’s failure to communicate with City Hall.

 

Plans to move the left and right-field walls near the existing bullpens to create more seating have not been changed.

 

Ryan McLaughlin, a spokesman for the Wrigleyville Rooftops Association, had no comment on the Cubs’ plan to win Landmarks Commission approval next week.

 

Nor would he respond to Monday’s other bit of bad news for rooftop club owners who share 17 percent of their revenues with the Cubs.

 

 

That wasn’t the only bit of bad news Monday for rooftop club owners who share 17 percent of their revenues with the Cubs.

 

A Circuit Court judge also dismissed the rooftops’ lawsuit against a stadium financing consultant who once advised the Cubs’ prior owner, the Tribune Co.

 

In the suit, the rooftops had accused Marc Ganis of making false and defamatory statements about them, in violation of their revenue-sharing agreement, in a January 2013 story published by the Chicago Sun-Times.

 

In the story, Ganis called the rooftop roadblock “one of the most ludicrous situations in the history of sports facility development. . . . Protecting carpetbaggers stealing the product paid for by others for their own profit and, thereby, stopping a $300 million investment.”

 

On Monday, Ganis argued that the speed with which Judge William Gomolinski upheld his right to speak freely — at the earliest possible stage before discovery or trial — speaks volumes about rooftop club owners.

 

“Are the rooftops so delusional that they think they can stop a person’s First Amendment rights and, if they’re that delusional about something as basic as that, have they had the same delusional approach toward their contract with the Cubs and, if so, is that one of the primary reasons there hasn’t been resolution yet?” Ganis said.

 

“It’s important to stand up for what’s right, even if it’s inconvenient or costly. In this case, I stood up for what I thought was inappropriate use of the political system for the rooftop owners’ profit. Then, I stood up for the First Amendment right to make that argument. Every now and then, what’s right is what the result is. They had to lose this case or it could have stifled political discourse in Cook County for years to come.”

 

In his 20-page opinion, Gomolinski agreed with Ganis’ argument that he was simply “characterizing certain expansion opponents as opportunists who were holding up a stadium deal — not criminals who have committed an indictable offense.”

 

The outspoken remarks are “constitutionally protected opinion” and, therefore, “not actionable in a false light claim,” the judge wrote.

 

“The natural and obvious meaning of Ganis’s statements is that the opponents to the Cubs’ proposal were opportunists benefiting and profiting from a product they did not create,” the opinion states.

[treebird]

sounds promising. hopefully something actually goes as planned now.

 

also this ganis guy sounds like a tool.

[mul21]

sounds promising. hopefully something actually goes as planned now.

 

also this ganis guy sounds like a tool.

 

You think the guy calling out the rooftop owners is a tool? How so? Just general layweryness or what?

[Guest]

sounds promising. hopefully something actually goes as planned now.

 

also this ganis guy sounds like a tool.

 

You think the guy calling out the rooftop owners is a tool? How so? Just general layweryness or what?

 

Probably that, yeah.

[jersey cubs fan]

sounds promising. hopefully something actually goes as planned now.

 

also this ganis guy sounds like a tool.

 

You think the guy calling out the rooftop owners is a tool? How so? Just general layweryness or what?

 

He is described as a stadium financing consultant, odds of non-toolery are low.

[Guest]

goony with an av wtf

[Guest]

sounds promising. hopefully something actually goes as planned now.

 

also this ganis guy sounds like a tool.

 

You think the guy calling out the rooftop owners is a tool? How so? Just general layweryness or what?

Basically the pantsless crackpot blubberiness, I'd say.

[PackLandVA]

....said Cubs spokesman Julian Green.

 

I stopped reading right there.

[UMFan83]

[expletive] hilarious and potentially big news

 

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#story/chi-rooftop-owners-agree-not-to-sue-cubs-if-only-2-signs-20140703/

 

The rooftop owners surrounding Wrigley Field have agreed not to sue the Chicago Cubs if the team sticks to last year’s plan to install just two advertising signs in the outfield, two owners said.

 

The rooftop owners reached out to the Cubs with the offer in recent weeks to settle their long-running dispute. The Cubs have not responded to the proposal, said Jim Lourgos, a rooftop owner.

 

“The rooftops have been working very hard to find a solution that works for everyone,” Lourgos said. “I haven’t heard from the Cubs yet.”

 

At this point I think they know the Cubs will win and should push forward with the 7 signs