Bears shift Stadium Focus to AH

[Butkus34]

Chicago Bears shifting their stadium focus to Arlington Heights

The Chicago Bears have flirted with leaving Chicago and building a stadium in Arlington Heights for more than 50 years.

www.chicagotribune.com

 

[modo]

This has always been the smart play

 

[Speed]

Build Halas World pls

 

[Rise]

Hopefully this opens for the 2028 season.

 

[IBleedBearsBlood]

They didn’t shift their focus. It’s always been Arlington from the beginning. The talk about keeping them in the city was just negotiation tactics. It’s business.

 

[BNB]

2032: The Bears are now focusing on Rockford, Illinois for their new home, President and CEO Kevin Warren shared as he washed his car for the 4th time of the day.

 

[cameronkrazie86]

Moving to the STICKS!

 

[alswank87]

It’s funny that the bears made soldier field an eye sore, then dips a few years later.

 

[Probie2429]

The pivot back to the city was because AH was being dumb. They must have backed off on that tax issue.

 

[Dstone5553]

Shocking...just shocking.

 

[Toast88]

Some of us have been saying this all along. You don’t buy that property to do nothing with it. And this day and age, it’s about building an experience, and you have to have property space (and own it) to do it. Can’t do that on the lakefront.

 

[Noonthirtyjoe]

Just build more land along the lake front. The Chinese do it all the time. They just built a airport that way. Chicago has done it before too.

 

[TL1961]

Moving to the STICKS!

The initial link to the story on ESPN main page referred to it as "the country". ESPN writers are such idiots.

 

[number51]

I expected this all along, but you most certainly have the evidence to back up your CALLED IT. Nicely done!

 

[msadows]

Some of us have been saying this all along. You don’t buy that property to do nothing with it. And this day and age, it’s about building an experience, and you have to have property space (and own it) to do it. Can’t do that on the lakefront.

TBH at one point when the tax issue pissed them off they thought "maybe lets stay in the city".

Then kevin warren learned about the friends of the park.

It was always just a negotiation tactic, but it pisses me off. Cheap as ******* delayed building the stadium for 2 years over money thats essentially peanuts in the long run for them, especially if you build a hotel, casino, etc.

Shovels should have been in the ground this time last year. Instead it probably wont even happen this year

 

[TL1961]

I expected this all along, but you most certainly have the evidence to back up your CALLED IT. Nicely done!

What's wrong with you?

 

[bears51/40]

The pivot back to the city was because AH was being dumb. They must have backed off on that tax issue.

New mayor. Right after his election has a sit down with Warren.

 

[number51]

What's wrong with you?

My thing is kind of small.

 

[Canth]

I think it will be interesting to see what 3rd party investors that the Bears pull together to help fund the stadium and then develop the area around the stadium.

Done right, they can truly make one hell of a NFL/Bears campus in a major market. There is just nothing in the Bears history that suggests they will get it right.

I also find it funny that there are probably several billion that will be needed in government funding to improve the infrastructure around such a campus that is just being glossed over right now.