Don't get me wrong. I have my bet, but at the end of the day, anyone here could be right or wrong on how it all turns out. I just don't buy that it's definitely now the city just because Warren said he wants shovels in the ground on the lakefront.
In literally the same soundbyte, he says, "We are continuing to communicate with Arlington Heights." Yet people are making it seem like the AH deal is dead.
Let's remember that the lakefront site doesn't yet have renderings, bids, a Community Benefits Agreement, a Memorandum of Understanding between the Park District, the City & the Bears on exactly how the business relationship and money will work between the three, et cetera, et cetera.
Any one of those things could throw a huge snag in the situation. Would anyone be surprised at the Park District cementing their feet on something untenable for the Bears that causes the Bears to say, "Fuck this, we're out."?
This is going to swap back and forth between Arlington Heights & the Lakefront at least a half dozen more times before it's said and done, which is honestly the correct way for Warren to play this.