ORLANDO, Fla. — Chicago Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren is billing the potential construction of a closed-roof stadium along Chicago’s lakefront as the chance for the city to have “a crown jewel that will create jobs, opportunities and mega events.”, Warren said this week at the NFL owners meetings that a site just south of the team’s current home at Soldier Field is the “ideal location” for a new stadium.
“You have a great piece of land along Lake Shore Drive, adjacent to an absolutely beautiful lake, near downtown with fantastic museums,” Warren said. “So let’s start with the bones and the structures that exist. … So now, what we’ve tried to do is to say, ‘What could we do to bring that area to life even more?’”
The Bears met last week with advocacy group Friends of the Parks, which successfully fought George Lucas’ Star Wars-themed museum on the lakefront in 2016. The team presented its vision while also “We in Chicago and the Chicagoland area and in the state of Illinois, we need to decide who we want to be,” Warren said. “Are we a preeminent, thoughtful, creative, visionary city who can do business together with each other, who can be progressive in our construction efforts, who can host the Final Four, who can host the Super Bowl, who can host certain concerts and mega events?
He stressed that he hopes the public looks at the situation as a positive, and that “the Chicago Bears owned by the McCaskey family has agreed to put in $2 billion of a private investment into a project that will be owned by the public.”“As I come to the table, I look at it as this is an opportunity for us to have a win-win-win, situation, especially for us now to be focused and energized about being downtown,” he said.
“Just talk to anyone who lives in Chicago and tries to commute in and around downtown,” he said. “This is not necessarily caused by the Chicago Bears on game days. The traffic is hectic on game day. But this exists Monday through Friday.”Chicago Bears had ‘deep conversations’ about keeping Justin Fields and drafting a QB, but trade was ‘best for organization and best for Justin’
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