An idea whose time hasn't come.

That said, the One Central idea pitched by sports-stadium-builder-turned-would-be-neighborhood-maker Bob Dunn seemed like a stretch even before the pandemic. Dunn now wants to build up to 22.3 million square feet of apartments, shopping and a transit center on 31 acres decked over Lake Shore Drive and Metra Electric tracks, all funded in part by $6.5 billion in state financing. Dunn notes that the transit center would become public property in 20 years under his plan. [Extracted from the article]