@airoderinde@realannacolwell@ChicagoBears Depends on the development. If they create Bearsville in Hammond, the same way they were planning to in Arlington Heights; with hotels and restaurants and retail… then Chicago will bring some tourism dollars, but a fraction of what it currently is.
It is 100% less revenue for IL
@airoderinde@realannacolwell@ChicagoBears How much property tax revenue will they get from a vacant piece of land?
Add in the job creation, and the tourism dollars, and the added value of revitalizing and energizing an area and and and… 🤦🏻♂️
@MarkPotash@Zack_Pearson@MicheleSteele Warren misjudged the benefit of dancing with Chicago. That yielded zero goodwill and pushed the timeline back.
He should lean harder on the Chicago representatives. The team lost hundreds of millions in order to PR the city, and that should be rewarded with cooperation/help now