Gov Pritzker: Bears new stadium is “non-starter” for state

[IBleedBearsBlood]

 

[Raskolnikov]

Arlington Heights never gave up tho . . .

“It was never a done deal in Arlington Heights. I don’t think it’s anything close to a done deal in the city of Chicago. And so we are ready, willing and able to continue our discussions with them if they get a ‘no’ on the lakefront” proposal the team announced Wednesday, Mayor Tom Hayes told Pioneer Press.

Arlington Heights still wants Chicago Bears to consider moving there: ‘I don’t think it’s anything close to a done deal’

The mayor of Arlington Heights says his northwest suburban town will still be interested in having the Chicago Bears stadium move there.

www.chicagotribune.com

Arlington Heights is a blackmail scheme.

Give us what we want or else. They probably lost Historic status on purpose as it was a road block to public funding.

Public funded Lake Front box seats is the first choice. Not far behind is the ability to control the gambling dollars in Arlington.

Either is a win when they were originally trapped with 60000 seats in historic designation.

 

[Dstone5553]

Bears pulling a double reverse? Team reconsiders Michael Reese site for new lakefront stadium

The team previously insisted the property, just south of McCormick Place, is unsuitable for a football stadium.

chicago.suntimes.com

 

[PhilEBuster]

 

[IBleedBearsBlood]

Bears reach tentative tax deal for Arlington Heights stadium site

As the Bears keep trying to finagle a new stadium in Chicago, one of their suburban options has gotten a long-awaited boost.

www.nbcsports.com

 

[Forty-six]

At this rate, I'm not sure the new stadium is open for games by the end of the decade.

 

[BNB]

At this rate, I'm not sure the new stadium is open for games by the end of the decade.

With how much Warren wants a Chicago site... you may be right. If they just stuck with Arlington Heights like everyone expected when they bought that land, it probably would have been ready in a year.

 

[baselman1974]

Bears are trying to get best deal. Arlington Heights has always been the most ideal location. Plenty of parking and can lease land to other businesses. Also transportation access is better than the city.

 

[Sparks500]

Bears are trying to get best deal. Arlington Heights has always been the most ideal location. Plenty of parking and can lease land to other businesses. Also transportation access is better than the city.

Hell yes. Doesn’t it have a train line directly to it?

 

[Montucky]

They will get a midlife refresh on the current building.

Unfortunately for the Bears the governor of their state wants to be president one day and in his mind nothing would give him more momentum into the primary than taking on the NFL juggernaut and winning. To get these teams spending within their means. I’m not making a partisan political argument here (I know how sensitive mods are to that), I’m just saying the timing here for the Bears could not be worse.

It’s not that the state doesn’t want to pay for the Bears stadium, it’s that they actively want to stop the Bears from building anything. They will throw up roadblock after roadblock for the next three years, by then the Bears will just take a few hundred million to make Soldier Field more modern or whatever.

 

[Montucky]

I love how people think the Bears are sitting on billions of dollars to build a complex in Arlington.

If they had the money to do Football Disneyland it would be done by now.

 

[Beardown34]

If they had the money to do Football Disneyland it would be done by now.

There are plenty of investors lining up to be part of this project.

 

[Canth]

There are plenty of investors lining up to be part of this project.

Yeah, especially if they go with the AH location, I would expect investment collaboration with a casino to help fund things for both the new stadium and other structures on that site.

 

[remydat]

There are plenty of investors lining up to be part of this project.

Name them.

 

[Beardown34]

Name them.

Ha! If I had the money I would be one. This property will be a money maker if it is done right. I guess we'll have to wait and see who the major players are. I wouldn't bet against it.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

Bears reach tentative tax deal for Arlington Heights stadium site

As the Bears keep trying to finagle a new stadium in Chicago, one of their suburban options has gotten a long-awaited boost.

www.nbcsports.com

Wtf are the Bears even doing with the stadium right now and why does everything feel like an act of congress with this organization? So this is where they are at accoridng to this article:

A. Chicago Stadium (Lake Front or other location?) but only if they get public funding

B. Arlington Heights

When will they be making a decision? From Hard Knocks, Warren was busy picking out chairs for Box suites but they don't even have a location picked out.

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Wtf are the Bears even doing with the stadium right now and why does everything feel like an act of congress with this organization? So this is where they are at accoridng to this article:

A. Chicago Stadium (Lake Front or other location?) but only if they get public funding

B. Arlington Heights

When will they be making a decision? From Hard Knocks, Warren was busy picking out chairs for Box suites but they don't even have a location picked out.

I am assuming most of this is just real estate poker. Seeing which side blinks first.

 

[Moses Moreno]

With how much Warren wants a Chicago site... you may be right. If they just stuck with Arlington Heights like everyone expected when they bought that land, it probably would have been ready in a year.

They don't have the money to fund it and won't ever.

 

[baselman1974]

They don't have the money to fund it and won't ever.

Probably seek more shares to the Rivers Casino owner who is a minority owner. He has the bread.

 

[ZOMBIE@CTESPN]

City can’t even pass new taxes for their current short falls idk how they can come up with the money for this project