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Review Sees “Adverse Impact” for Obama Center’s Park Surroundings
Plans to build the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, which have been hampered by delays, may be delayed further by the findings of a review prepared by the city for the National Park Service. The review concluded that the $500-million project would have an “adverse impact” on the park, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The federal review under the National Historic Preservation Act found the Obama Presidential Center would diminish “the historic property’s overall integrity by altering historic, internal spatial divisions that were designed as a single entity” by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to host the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.
A meeting for the project’s “consulting parties,” including the State Historical Preservation Officer, is scheduled for August 5, to be followed later that day by a public forum. A final decision on the environmental impact assessment of the project is expected in spring 2020.
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