ACTIVATE! Design Competition to Re-Imagine Chicago Public Spaces Launches!

It is intended that the Chicago Solar Soccer Stadium (C3S) plan will feature:

•  the vision of a community-owned/controlled (as with the Green Bay Packers) International Soccer Team and Stadium (failing stadium already exiting in Bridgeview, IL - as designed by Epstein) located on the vacated Fisk Generating Station Site in Chicago, plus a public park with water access and boat harbor with the the adjoining/existing barge canal network;
• rapid securing of the property for salvage, clearing and EXCLUSIVE rezoning for commercial Sports Facility and Public Park use ONLY;
• the earliest inclusion of an ethically-monitored, ‘INDEPENDENT’ Chicago/Hispanic Community-controlled Pilsen Area Development Board (PERRO-or equivalent, IF independent & community focused) overseeing said ownership, development  and reuse;
• funding of a site reuse and architectural redevelopment plan organized through the UIC School of Architecture and affiliating Architecture for Humanity Chicago member(s) - with the renewable energy expertise from Aerotecture International, Inc.(existing member);
• immediate writing and filing of grants for said development with the appropriate agency, or agencies, of the Quinn and/or Obama Administrations;
• said plan and grant(s) focused on the integration and featuring of a major (20 MW or more) onsite renewable energy electrical installation to be ‘tied in’ with the existing ComEd power transforming station supplying said energy to: the immediate Sports Facility, 2)the immediate Pilsen Community at a preferred and discounted electric rate and 3) the Chicago-wide electric power grid previously supported by the Fisk Generating Station. 

The overall benefits of said plan and long-term economic ‘contributions’ are to be directed locally and toward the greater good of industry and labor within a 100-mile LEED circle of the Chicago/Pilsen area.  Agreements to the above will be secured as quickly as possible so as to help eliminate the inevitable corruption of said plans by those agents, politicians and/or agencies determined to bend any such proposal or linked proposals toward their personal, political or institutional control/greed. Contact Bil Becker at 84.274.2155 for more info.