Chicago Bears NFL football moving stadium to suburbs-Arlington Heights

The article you linked above says:
"In September 2022, they unveiled a nearly $5 billion plan for Arlington Heights that also called for restaurants, retail and more, when they were finalizing the purchase of that site 30 miles from Soldier Field. "
 
Also says a freeze on property taxes ie lost revenue and legislation required which probably means more tax breaks to get the businesses in there.

The problem with these mega projects is local environmental laws/issues and traffic which means more or wider roads, lights, signs etc. I've seen shopping centers held up for years with big box stores coming in and the hold up was the local community wanted all the traffic issues including road widening taken care of ie cost/physical construction first.
 

The Chicago Bears NFL football team planning to move to a suburb-Arlington Heights.

Bears president all but shuts door on team staying in city, says 'future home' in Arlington Heights

So how much will this stadium actually cost tax payers.
The Bears would contribute $2 billion, and the NFL would pony up $300 million, but the team would still seek $900 million from the state to make the projected $3.2 billion cost of the stadium build work.
Of course, this is all up for debate. I don't live very far from the proposed site. The 'positive side' to all this are the projections of how much revenue the stadium, hotel, retail, etc. will bring in. Of course, WhatinThe has it right --- things could be held up for awhile.
 
I've been reading this for several years at this point. Soldier Field that bad?

Is Chicago going to try to counter that in anyway. They might have put together a plan to force Chicago's hand not that I'm in favor of any city, state etc paying for a billionaire's playground
 

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