How come I'm not enthusiastic about this?

Obama library to be built in Chicago's South Side.

The article raises the question on what it means for the area. Whatever it means is completely secondary to what happens in the South Side: gang violence which results in shootings and deaths. What can the library do to lessen the high STD rates among the blacks on the South Side? What can it do lessen the deaths by gun bullets? What can it do to renovate the city's Detroit-like neighborhoods?

The Barack Obama Presidential Center is projected to bring $600 million in economic development to the neighborhood, eliciting a mixture of hope and anxiety from neighborhood residents. Hope springs from the prospect of greater business opportunities, lower crime, and a nicer streetscape. Anxiety comes from the possibility of gentrification, in which current residents can be effectively forced out and the mom-and-pop shops that have persevered for decades are replaced by chains.

We'll how the area develops.

It's a good a thing I like libraries and museums.