Could COVID Kill the Megadevelopment?
DEVELOPER STERLING BAY WOULD PREFER THAT WE PONDER L INCOLN YARDS’ future rather than dwell on its present. Hence the tall screens atop the fences lining Cortland Street, which bisects the 55-acre North Side megadevelopment-to-be. The barriers obscure blighted lots and fill the imagination of passersby with illustrated vignettes of what life here could be in the year 2030, the project’s anticipated completion date. Skate parks, food trucks, boardwalks, oh my!
If only. Scenes of carefree (and mask-free) Chicagoans happily strolling through the $6 billion project — a mix of residential, retail, office, and entertainment space nestled in the industrial no man’s land
