Foot Traffic is Up?
We're going to go out on a limb here and say, "bullshit:"
The Loop is showing some signs of a revival as the average weekend foot traffic exceeded pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter, the Chicago Loop Alliance said Tuesday. But the group’s report said weekday activity still lags.
The average weekend pedestrian activity on State Street was at 107% of 2019 levels. During the workweek from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m., foot traffic was about 91% of pre-pandemic activity.
Total pedestrian activity on State Street was up 7% compared to the first quarter of 2023, representing 1.5 million “impressions” per week, and at 94% of 2019 levels. The impressions are counted by analytics firm Springboard MRI, which collects data daily from counters on top of buildings along State Street, from Ida B. Wells Drive to Wacker Drive, that track silhouettes of people but not any identifying features.
Have you been downtown during the week? It's a ghost town.
And the buildings? Plywood forests.
The article admits as much:
Hotel occupancy was 51%, up 3 percentage points from the same period in 2023, and 11 percentage points lower than the first quarter of 2019.
Chicagoans and visitors are returning to the Loop, “but we have to give them a reason to stay,” said Michael Edwards, president and CEO of the Chicago Loop Alliance. “The Loop needs more investors to bet big on our district right now,” he said, citing wins from Google and JPMorgan Chase for their plans to open or refurbish offices in the Loop.
Google and JP Morgan aren't going to revitalize a dying restaurant industry or a dead convention industry. And tourists are correctly nervous about the wilding season ramping up. You know how bad it's gotten? Are you aware that there are only two McDonald's locations in the actual downtown area anymore?
We're willing to bet these automated tracking devices are getting their weekend number bumps from two-or-three-or-four-hundred jackass teens running around, taking over street corners, looting what businesses remain and beating whatever visitors stumble across their paths. Remember, these devices are only tracking silhouettes - nothing identifiable. You get a robot to count them multiple times as they run back-and-forth from the bikes and arrest teams and you can fake a few thousand "visitors" without any effort.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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I must disagree with you as I currently work in 001… It’s picked up 100% since the pandemic and not in a good way. It might be a ghost town on a Sunday but during the week and on Saturdays there’s a lot of people out. Unfortunately criminals are included!
It’s shit heads roaming around downtown, not out of town we’ll healed patrons spending freely.
The warmer weather will bring out the jackals, hence the increase.
Newcomers are still in Hotels downtown!!!
Casino is also a huge bust!
These hacks need to up their game a little. I mean if we're making up bullshit to make the city look good let's go full retard.
They should start counting it as "shopping" when someone drives a car through a store front and a dozen looters, excuse me, shoppers rush in and grab everything.
When some street takeover happens every donut should count as more vehicle traffic.
When a building owner has another storefront boarded up it should be counted as "investment in the downtown area".
The hotels being full of illegals and those same illegals pan handling may count as increases in foot traffic but they are not going to help.
In fact they are making things worse.
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Chase closed down access to what used to be a large cafeteria in its basement. That's not done due to increasing foot traffic
Dont forget the Hamas, alphabet people, supporters and lovers marching along downtown.
Those hundreds of “Standard Club” illegal aliens, moping and a doping all day long, up and down State, are gonna inflate those numbers too.
Good for the Loop. I’m still gonna take a pass, thanks.
Exactly what are the demographics of the foot traffic. By age and race please. How about public transportation into loop area on weekends. Willing to bet Red line is carrying the most.
More Venezmoochers downtown in 1Q 2024 than in 1Q 2023.
Favored hangout site Pigster Park is right on State Street, the Plymouth Court shelter just steps away.
The Lil’ Capones hits their calendars running for the Convention. They can’t wait to flash mobs their Democratic protectors with some Chicago bred carjacking, pickpocketing, acting the fool shenanigans, etc. The DNC tourists will be thrilled with their little darlings.
Unfortunately, I have to be downtown several days a week. I travel across the Loop from Union Station to Michigan Ave daily. It is crowded and not a wasteland. Believe me, I wish it was! I blame the idiot suburbanites and out-of-town tourists. You can also thank our liberal immigration policies for all the Chinese "students" living in luxury condos. Americans are good at selling out their country for a profit!
In other words, don't believe your own eyes, ears and actual observations.
The media is constantly and consistently lying to us. Thankfully, a lot of people are now awake.
If they can’t eat it drink it smoke it or eff it then they destroy it
FBI keeps warning of heightened threat levels with border wide open terrorists here democratic shit show convention coming any thoughts on what will happen?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-director-sounding-alarm-heightened-threat-environment-is-america-listening
*Head of fbi Wray constantly publicly warning us, going to be potentially epic and nothing like we have ever expected before! Heads on swivel watch those “suspicious” packages calls!
Just for perspective...I just got back from a weeklong vacation across the pond in London. As soon as you leave Heathrow airport there's 3 large and impressive LED billboards along the expressway declaring that Chicago is the "Number 1 city in America to visit" and has been for the past four years. Recent You Tube vids are filled with vloggers visiting this city and eating at Portillo's and Lou Malnatti's (check them out for a laugh). Europeans and Canadians I met say they can't wait to visit Chicago this summer. They want to see the museums, go on the river tour, walk the lakefront and riverwalk and eat at the Michelin-star restaurants in the West Loop.
They also said that they thought crime was down. LOL...go figure. I told them not to take public transportation after dark and to stay in the NW suburbs if they could. They looked at me like I was crazy. I guess the city's propaganda machine is actually working over there. If they don't want to listen to reason I say let them contribute tax money to our pensions.
The Bears need to go to Arlington Heights. The downtown is dead and the only way to save our convention business is to build a new complex away from the City of Chicago's "accepted" violence. They create nothing and only destroy. 5:18am is 100% correct. Name 1 place that ever got better under progressives.
It's picked up on the weekends with "silhouettes" because of the tens of thousands of pro Palestinian protests going on. Every damn weekend, that calls all the teams downtown. There's your increase.
Casino is also a huge bust!
Wait, don't you know that the casino was brought to this city by a gay black female. It's a huge success despite the lack of profits that 99% of casinos bring. DEI is everything. You only mention it because our first gay black female mayor was the best mayor ever despite everything you see and read.
We're willing to bet these automated tracking devices are getting their weekend number bumps from two-or-three-or-four-hundred jackass teens running around, taking over street corners, looting what businesses remain and beating whatever visitors stumble across their paths. Remember, these devices are only tracking silhouettes - nothing identifiable. You get a robot to count them multiple times as they run back-and-forth from the bikes and arrest teams and you can fake a few thousand "visitors" without any effort.
The same bots counted the democratic votes back in 2020...
Anonymous said...
More Venezmoochers downtown in 1Q 2024 than in 1Q 2023.
Favored hangout site Pigster Park is right on State Street, the Plymouth Court shelter just steps away.
4/24/2024 04:44:00 AM
Place a sign on one of his toilet free mansions that reads: ALL NEW ARRIVALS WELCOME COME RIGHT IN...
Been working in the loop for 25 years. This is not the “revival” anybody sane would want. Tech is drifting into a few haves and mostly subsistent, so don’t bank on the big G reviving the restaurant businesses when they’re packing a lunch from home, like me. Sad to see so many places boarded up, worse to see what is here with so many moochers and hyenas treating it like a truck stop bathroom.
Be prepared for the show that’s playing and what’s on the way. I should have bailed on this some time between when the parking meters were sold off and when they painted up the streets to look like some aberration of a Sorry board game.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/daquan-armstead-charged-in-string-of-random-nyc-attacks-on-women-over-the-past-month-nypd/
Will his AWFL Karen victims testify against him?
I think they are counting, including the little "MOBSTERS" when they do the counting of foot traffic.
I was in the loop at lunch time on a Tuesday, April 2023. Hardly anyone on the street and hardly anyone in Macys.
Empowered yute, creative yute, vibrant yute, expressive yute, sonic yute! The yutes will spark an urban renaissance, a Chiraqi miracle if you will.
No, it will be great when all the successful businesses leave and downtown becomes a hunting ground for troubled teenagers of color to prey on tourists and suburbanites. Good luck with paying for that new Bears stadium.
I'm not going downtown anymore...It's just not safe.
Only two McDonald's left?
We probably have a record number of "protests," so that has to pump up the numbers. As for McDonald's: good riddance. Those places are getting as bad as 7-11s for attracting thugs and losers.
One of the McDonald’s that’s downtown is an active gathering place for a dope tip. If you don’t believe me go to Adams/Wabash and watch the crew that’s in and out of the McDonald’s and the Vape shop across the street. That location looks more like Adams/Springfield than the loop
With Foxtrot and Dom's kitchen closing all of their stores, is Lincoln Park now a "food desert". Asking for a friend.
I worked at 018 for 15 years and I will not go Downtown,
foot traffic is up,,,, I have never seen so many feet attached to those certain criminals running away from crime scenes who can't be described by the liberal news
The KIA Boys ruined Chicago
Unfortunately, I have to be downtown several days a week. I travel across the Loop from Union Station to Michigan Ave daily. It is crowded and not a wasteland. Believe me, I wish it was! I blame the idiot suburbanites and out-of-town tourists. You can also thank our liberal immigration policies for all the Chinese "students" living in luxury condos. Americans are good at selling out their country for a profit
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I have worked downtown for 30 years. The numbers are wayyyyy down. Yes it picked up a bit since 2000-2001 when no one went downtown but people are afraid now of the thugs that roam the streets day and nite. Suburbanites WERE the number #1 regular tourists 20 years ago … to eat or go on a date downtown. Now they are concerned about their safety. Just the young 20 year olds who grew up n other states want to go there b/c they don’t realize how worse it has become. A lot of restaurants have closed and newbies don’t realize it b/c they don’t have a real reference point.
Foot traffic is up for sure. It’s all illegals , mentals and the usual roaming packs of honor students. Once 6pm rolls around it’s over . The illegals are littering Michigan Ave and grant park. Police manpower is at the lowest it’s ever been between 001/018. Less than 500 offficers combined.
I came downtown during the height of the pandemic. I opened a snack and I could hear the echo from the wrapper bouncing off the walls of the buildings around me. That's empty, folks. And I'm supposed to shit myself that we have more foot traffic than that?
Parking meter deal phase III. The Bears announced their plans to put the tax payer on the hook for their proposed stadium. The bond are to be paid back with hotel tax revenue. And the fine print? If those revenue "forecasts" fall short for what ever reason guess who is holding the bag to make sure the investors don't loose a dime. If the stadium is such a great deal, why don't private investors fund 100% of the project?
So, any word on new Bears stadium complex effects on the Police Memorial ?
Here in Milwaukee, a TeeVee station ran a short feature on how Chicago has "the most walkable features" in all of the USA, specifically the museums, Orchestra Hall, and the Mile all within 30 minutes of each other by foot.
They did not mention that "walkable" was a necessity because of car-jacking.
My conspiracy theory is that the parasitic politicians & their goons will crash the city to buy up everything cheap. But Chicago was never as expensive as San Fran or Manhattan. And Detroit, after it crashed years ago, never got built back up. Same for Cleveland. The cities remain urban jungles that now also encourage children to engage in deviant sexual behavior. There's some really, REALLY evil shit going on.
No Wimpy's also downtown. Miss those burgers with onions.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Oracle Corp.'s planned campus in Nashville, Tennessee, will serve as the business software giant's world headquarters, placing it in a city that's a center for the U.S. health care industry, CEO Larry Ellison said.
Ellison spoke about Oracle's plans for its Nashville offices during a conversation about health care technology with former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist at the Oracle Health Summit on Tuesday.
In 2021, a Tennessee panel approved $65 million in state incentives for Oracle, with the company planning to bring 8,500 jobs and an investment topping $1 billion to Nashville over a decade. Then-Mayor John Cooper’s office announced that the company, currently based in Austin, Texas, planned to build the new campus with 1.2 million square feet (111,400 square meters) of office space. In 2020, the Oracle announced it was moving its headquarters from its longtime home in Redwood City, California, to Texas.
Frist, a doctor and businessman, asked Ellison why Nashville was chosen. Ellison, whose company bought electronic medical records company Cerner in 2022, called the city “a health center.”
“We're moving this huge campus, which will ultimately be our world headquarters,” Ellison said. “We're moving that to Nashville.”
he could had chosen chicago but ellison who is one the smartest and riches men in world realized that chicago had conerhead as mayor it was a no brainer
"Anonymous said...
The warmer weather will bring out the jackals, hence the increase.
4/24/2024 12:11:00 AM"
Cause every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals, who he is!
it wasn't covid that closed up businesses in the Loop,Magnificent Mile.
It was the peaceful protests,summer of 2020 for St.George Floydd that scared citizens away.
we all know the CPS students visiting our lake front and young men and women that rob,rape,carjack visitors.
let's not forget the homeless and illegal immigrants that are using our downtown and lakefront for sleeping and gathering.
what about the street racers that take over LSD, Wacker Drive and other main streets in Chicago????
"*Head of fbi Wray constantly publicly warning us, going to be potentially epic and nothing like we have ever expected before! Heads on swivel watch those “suspicious” packages calls!
4/24/2024 05:58:00 AM"
These clowns and professional liars have KNOWN about every single mass shooter in recent history BEFORE the incident. They did NOTHING to prevent it.
How did they handle the sexual assault cases of many female gymnasts, including US Olympians, of Dr Larry Nassar? About as well as they've handled prohibiting mass shooter incidents.
DOJ Pays Gymnasts $138 Million Settlement for FBI Misconduct in Larry Nassar Sex Assault Cases
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/04/23/doj-pays-gymnasts-138-million-settlement-for-fbi-misconduct-in-larry-nassar-sex-assault-cases/
Ya think they're allowing it to happen?
Anonymous said...
One of the McDonald’s that’s downtown is an active gathering place for a dope tip. If you don’t believe me go to Adams/Wabash and watch the crew that’s in and out of the McDonald’s and the Vape shop across the street. That location looks more like Adams/Springfield than the loop
4/24/2024 09:27:00 AM
That McDonald's location closed several weeks ago.
The McDonald's on Jackson next to CBOT is usually calm.
The McDonald's by Chicago and State has always been a shit show.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Chase closed down access to what used to be a large cafeteria in its basement. That's not done due to increasing foot traffic
It’s funny what multiple robberies your main downtown branch can lead to.
More conehead Bull S. during the day State St .MagMile empty
Heavy foot traffic from Illegal Immigrants, Mentals, Bums, and Criminals.
None of which will contribute to revitalizing downtown.
Enter at your own risk!
The loop rhymes with poop. I stopped going downtown when they surrendered to the vermin cong.
Got a bridge for sale that Daley missed...wire me the zort...
bullshit
Its perfect time for the little assholes to start their wilding bullshit
More Amish tales in Aurora:
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/siblings-sentneced-for-attacking-an-aurora-police-officer-during-traffic-stop/?intcid=CNR-02-0623
Make sure you get on the popular travel sites and post news articles and heyjackass in any comment section about Chicago.
And now you have hundreds, if not thousands of illegal Palestinians? Do you know why Delta Force and SEAL Team 6 exist? Palestinians, plain and simple.
These people are inbred, as a rule. They produce mentally deficient males by the bucket. In the Middle East, they make them herd the sheep and goats because they aren’t capable of much, but herding and Martyrdom. So, one day the Imam shows up and starts grooming the kid for a special position. They explain the 72 virgins while showing the kid porn. They give him a little booze, heroin, whatever it takes to give him bravery for his mission. Then, they give him the keys to a car bomb, but they control the det switch.
Hopefully, they hit their new trust fund friends at an Ivy League school, but that is just me hoping they follow their normal pattern of attacking anyone that is stupid enough to help them.
Also, any female that loses her husband can become a shaheed. Being a widow sucks in their world. Suicide is usually preferable so they sign up to be a martyr. The burka is perfect for hiding a vest.
The Canadians don't tip.
Got a bridge for sale that Daley missed...wire me the zort...
4/24/2024 06:49:00 PM
No, but heard the naming rights for sidewalks are up for bids. Also, shanks wanted to sell permanent parking spots on residential streets, but could not come up with a manageable plan that eliminated dibs and would not cause an uptick in violence.
Here is what I consider the real test, the Walnut Room test. This November after the Christmas Tree....errrr I mean Holiday Tree is up, in the Walnut Room at Macy's, go see if the tables are all full and if there is a line of people waiting to get a seat. If the tables are not all taken and there is no line out the entryway of the Walnut Room you will know these figures about foot traffic in the Loop are all BS.
Not to mention the roaming bands of illegal invaders that independent reporter Williamm J Kelly has reported on X. This city is rapidly circling the drain.
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