its "better" for the City of Chicago (?) That's what I'm thinking. Plus the possible effects it has on the surrounding area on the south side of Chicago, an area which many Chicagoans never visit. But if I had to guess, gentrification around a stadium doesn't have the effect that you'd hope it would have. The university of Minnesota did a study about 15 years after the Metrodome was built on the actual economic effect that publicly funded stadiums have on their immediate surroundings and found that they dont have positive economic effects, they can actually kill neighborhoods that being said, stadiums aren't developed the way they were in the early 1980's. We aren't going to tear down blocks and blocks of older buildings to build a concrete and teflon stadium with no windows. And effort can be made to develop the rest of the property to include things that the South Chicago neighborhoods actually need, like urban farms, appropriately sized retail (everything from the gambling and bar outfits the McCaskeys likley want to small scale mom/pop venues), etc. 500 acres provides a ton of opportunity and if planned correctly could offer the City a ton of benefit. just as long as they actually cleaned up the benzene in the ground water..so to speak