Chicago agrees to pay ousted Millennium Park contractor $11 mil...

Go Chicago PD wrote:

not to mention it is a very beautiful property right in the heart of the city.

It's HALF A BILLION dollars! How do you NOT build a beautiful park for HALF A BILLION?

I'd be impressed if the pols could create a great park for a reasonable amount of money. Look at the cow thing. That cost the city little and yet brought in lots.

Will all those people who say things like "the bean and park will bring money to the city" please explain how that happens. What do the people spend the money on in the park or the bean? I have yet to hear anyone say "Hey let us go to Chicago to see the bean and the park. We will only have to pay for parking, an overpriced hot dog, and a taxed bottle of water." Also explain how long it will take with that revenue stream to recover the $500 million the park with bean cost the taxpayers. Please defend the park for some other reason other than it will create a $500 million revnue stream for the city.

The Olympics will make Millenium Park look like a bargain. Get ready for the next financial tsunami!

So someone working for the city made the decision. Has that someone been fired yet like they would do if they worked in private industry.

Let's see..a black "contractor", hired due to his color, in combination with a theoretically "real" contractor, can't do the job. Amazing. Incompetence, cost overruns, delays, general malaise all result in the TAXPAYERS of Chicago having to PAY OFF THESE IDIOTS? How's that diversity thing working out for you? Whoever decided to pay these guys off should go to jail with them.

WARNING!!! Don't click on the Gomez-Mehta post, it launches a virus!!!

Hahahaha there's one in every crowd.

Go Chicago PD wrote:

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AGAIN, that "stupid bean" brings alot of people to that "stupid" Park and therefore we people of Chicago Do now and will for a long time get $$$$ back from them.
STUPID? i dont think so.

Go Chicago PD wrote:

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This "Stupid" park as you call it will bring in far more Taxpayer money than we paid.

Tourists might visit the park while they are visiting Chicago, but no one comes to Chicago just to see the park. Unless they're on some sort of "Corruption in City Government" tour that is.

at it again RIchie more chicago money wasted 11 million here 5 million there step down your HONOR is at stake.

the new top cop wants SUV's give him another hundred million or so they can look the other way when children are being shot every day. terrible terrrible

And so the costs of Millenium Park continue on...

Who are the M O R O N Daley defenders who point to Millenium park as tax-free to the citizens of Chicago, and therefore a prime example of how we won't be on the hook at all for a 2016 Olympics???

Some minority firm that was in way over its head gets $11 million because they were too incompetent to do the job they were given just because they were an MBE.

I can see why Obama's pastor is so angry at us white guys. Man that's a rough life they are leading.

Go Chicago PD wrote:

not to mention it is a very beautiful property right in the heart of the city.

It was a very beautiful park before Daley wasted billions on "re" doing it, so all his contractor buddies could live high on the hog. I smell another tax in the air.

It is a beautiful park, a testament to the vision of our Mayor and visionaries who conceived the project, and saw the project through to completion.

I was a supplier to Harston/Schwendener on this project. I can attest that Harston did not own one backhoe. Yet all our payments came from Harston. This was purely to satisfy the 25+% MBE req. All Harston did was pass $$ and received a hefty fee for it. This is a fleecing of our tax dollars. These MBE/DBE/WBE requirements do nothing more than inflate the costs of construction. It is money laundering, but legally. This is a key reason this park cost $500M, not to mention the fact that construction started before conceptual design was even done.