F-ck the Crybaby Neighborhood

Lake View community groups are lining up against a plan to construct a hotel, retail and residential complex across from Wrigley Field featuring a building so tall they fear it would set a precedent and destroy the residential character of their neighborhood.—Sun-Times This is the kind of **** that Ricketts will have to fight because he made the wrong decision in not building a new ballpark. The Wrigley neighborhood, for as long as I can remember, have been the biggest crybabies I’ve ever witnessed. Every person who moved into that neighborhood knew it wasn’t just residential. There’s a ******* MLB stadium there! Karatz noted that the “Addison Park on Clark” project is being closely watched by the Cubs, who plan their own project on a triangular parcel adjacent to Wrigley. Do the Cubs have the balls to tell the neighborhood to **** off? I highly doubt it and that’s another reason why Wrigley should have been destroyed. “We topped that out at 65 or 71 feet. One of the reasons the Cubs couldn’t build [initially] is that they couldn’t make the numbers work at that height. At 91 feet, they could make the numbers work,” she said. Jill Peters, president of the Southport Neighbors Association, agreed, saying, “If we do it for this guy, you have to do it for everyone else. ... That would turn our neighborhood into gridlock.” **** of, Jill. You knew Wrigley Field was there when you moved there. You can’t say with a straight face that when you moved into the area that you thought it was a normal neighborhood. I’d think 40,000 screaming dumbasses would have been a good hint it wasn’t your average neighborhood. I think we all know why Jill moved into the area, too. Money! She’s probably made a lot of money because of the Cubs. There is some hope. Not every person in the neighborhood is a crybaby like Jill is. Anthony Rossi, managing partner of M&R Development, noted that Peters and Karatz represent only two votes on the 22-member panel that advises Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) on zoning issues. “It’s never gonna be unanimous. We just hope we get 12 out of 22,” Rossi said. As for the concern about height and density, Rossi said his buildings have “varying heights,” with an average of 58 feet and the “vast majority” at 37 feet. “I’d hardly describe it as a wall of high-rises,” he said. After shrinking the project and lowering the height to below the Wrigley roofline, M&R filed a zoning application that includes a 137-room Hyatt hotel, 135 residential units, 147,000 square feet of retail and a 403-space underground garage. Unfortunately the Cubs will have to go through this same **** if they want to add something that will help them make more money so they can have a better team. Staying at Wrigley Field was a dumb decision. It’s going to look even dumber in a few years when Ricketts has to go to battle with these people. Ricketts will have the upper hand if he chooses to use it. I just doubt he’ll be willing to piss of the Wrigleyville residents even though that is exactly what he should do. I hope that they find that renovating Wrigley Field will cost as much money as building a new ballpark. I’d like to think if that was the case that Ricketts isn’t dumb enough to build a new one where the current one is. I hope. If he is, Wrigley Field is the least of the Cubs problems.