OBAMA’S ‘OBSCENE MONUMENT TO HIS EGO’ DRAMATICALLY BACKFIRES AS $850M VANITY PROJECT SPARKS OUTRAGE:
President Barack Obama’s promise to build and revitalize blighted neighborhoods was a centerpiece of his first term in the White House.
But now, nearly nine years after he left the Oval Office, he might be destroying one critical area in the city he called home, the Daily Mail can reveal.
His $850 million presidential center in Chicago – due to open in April – has come under fire from residents, community leaders and even onetime supporters who now warn that the massive 19.3-acre facility in Jackson Park is gentrifying the neighborhood, increasing rent and forcing families out.
Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, who represents much of the area where the center is being built, told the Daily Mail she is a fan of Obama and believes in the project but has fought aspects of it to protect her constituents. Her efforts have had mixed results.
‘We’re going to see rents go higher and we’re going to see families displaced,’ she told the Daily Mail.
‘Every time large development comes to communities, they displace the very people they say they want to improve it for,’ the Democrat added.
‘This was no different, and we’re living what is actually happening. The city of Chicago should have done a Community Benefits Agreement before the first shovel went into the ground, but they didn’t.’
A CBA is a legally binding document that outlines what a developer will provide for a project such as affordable housing, local hiring and environmental protections.
C’mon — it’s a moment to a guy who said that merely winning the Democrats’ nomination to be president was “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Surely you can trust his environmental intentions!
In 2019, Jon Gabriel described the library as looking like “A discarded Chinese take-out box. The backside of a Star Wars sand crawler. The Washington Monument with the interesting bits lopped off. That’s what sprung to mind when confronted with the initial design of the Obama Presidential Center.”
Over the past century, it’s a truism that the vast majority of modern architecture never looks as good when built as it does in model format. And the Obama Presidential Center was looking stillborn while still only styrene:
It’s not looking any better as it’s being built:
