The Chicago Tribune this weekend published this article regarding the construction at the Broadway Armory to add an indoor running track. From the article:
“The Broadway Armory Park in the Edgewater neighborhood is about to see its summer schedule upended so an elevated running track can be built above the gymnasium for Loyola University’s track team.
The school is paying for about half of the estimated $1.7 million track and the Park District the other half. In return for $850,000 over five years, Loyola’s runners will be allowed exclusive use of the new track for 21/2 hours per day on weekdays during the school year.
A community group and new Ald. Harry Osterman, 48th, said people in the area are excited they will get to use the 200-meter Olympic-style indoor track that likely wouldn’t get built unless Loyola pitched in.”
What do you think? Are you glad to see Loyola chip in funding for the construction in exchange for exlcusing use of the track by the Loyola track team? Or do you think the Park District is unessesarily rushing to build a track just because Loyola wants one?