09-20-2010, 10:46 AM
Hey ClassicalLib17, did you just return from Green Town after crying in your beer? I think that this forum would be better off if posters weren't intoxicated. That point aside, if you've ever left our little hamlet you would discover that many North Shore towns have bluffs over the lake and this has not harmed the value of the land overlooking the lake. You seem to not understand that Lake views are 'a good thing'. If you read the city's master plan then you would see how that geographic situation is remedied (it's not rocket science). In regards to investors tripping over one another to invest here, you've drunkenly stumbled once again. Beitler Construction did plenty of research before it committed to develop the old News-Sun site and they found that the Chicago population was moving Northward and that the Milwaukee population was moving Southward and that Waukegan would be the nexus. Few companies in the WORLD due diligent planning like Beitler Construction. However, since then, THE ECONOMY has trumped the best wishes of mice and men. Does any of this change the fortuitous position that Waukegan will be in one day due to its geographic advantages? No. We have to wait--once again--for our fortunes to up-tick just like 'rich' towns across the country. Two years ago there was a lot of progress going on here in town and in the entire country. Our current situation is not a situation endemic to Waukegan. Instead of whining about all sorts of nonsense all the time, why don't you do a little 'due diligence' yourself before you go back to Green Town.