Sentences with phrase «district boat marinas»
In return for tolerating disruption of park activities before and in 1992, the Fair Authority offered to pay for two new park district boat marinas in the vicinity of city - owned Navy Pier.
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The proposed marina at Navy Pier is one of two downtown boat harbors envisioned in a «staff agreement «reached late last week between the Fair Authority and the park district.
Especially bothersome, they said, is a proposal to reward the park district with two new downtown boat marinas in return for tolerating the fair on district property at Burnham Harbor.
High on the city «s list of objections are terms that would give the park district control of two proposed boat marinas near city - owned Navy Pier.
THE MARINA, toward which the fair would contribute as much as $ 27.5 million, would accommodate boats displaced from the district «s Burnham Harbor during the construction and operation of the fair from 1989 through 1992.
THE CHICAGO Park District would install a 1,100 - boat marina at city - owned Navy Pier under a draft agreement being negotiated between park officials and organizers of the 1992 World «s Fair, park officials confirmed Friday.
Besides two new marinas built at fair expense, a draft copy of the agreement shows, the district would get improved parking lots at Soldier Field, a 12 percent share of the «gate «at fair events held there, and good - as - new restoration of Burnham Harbor boat facilities and nearby beaches.
The proposed harbor, near Loyola University, was one of five sites suggested by a marina consultant hired by the Park District to find new harbor locations to meet growing demands for boat slips.
Singled out for special criticism is the proposal to give the district two new downtown boat marinas.
Boating fees already go toward upkeep of the city's harbors and marinas, and they pay for other Park District maintenance.
But the question is not so much whether the city needs hundreds of new boat slips in the basin as whether the Park District should be making the basin a marina at all.