Originally published at: Study Unveils Redevelopment Concepts For Burke Lakefront Airport
A new economic study outlines two potential mixed-use redevelopment plans for Burke Lakefront Airport, part of Mayor Justin Bibb’s effort to close the city-operated airport.
Only a politician would think spending 800+ million to get 2.7 million in return taxes per year. No mention of the fact that the airport is built on reclaimed soil (dredged) from the infamous Cuyahoga river many years ago. The EPA considers it a Superfund hazardous site. Who is going to pay for that? And who would want to build or walk along that land? The last administration in the Cleveland mayor office gave up on this idea after discovering how much it would cost to clean up the site, instead decided to make improvements for the 2016 Republican convention.
Cleveland can ask Chicago about whether the latter had measurable success redeveloping Meigs Field. Yes, it is now a park, but the entrance is largely blocked by an unsightly concert venue, and the park gets only a handful of visitors. The return on investment, aside from rentals of the concert venue, is probably negative.
If you take a look at what’s been happening to the land at meigs field, it would shock you. The whole area is getting reclaimed by mother nature. Erosion and it reverting back to the earth. Everything that was supposed to happen, never came to fruition.
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