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      <![CDATA[Welcome Any Church Get out anti church's and arena too
        
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      <![CDATA[All the more reason to spend 100 mm in TIF money to fix up the Uptown!
        
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      <![CDATA[As I said to Alderman Arena, closing the Portage Theater would change the character of our neighborhood, at least in part because tenants would be evicted and some adjacent store fronts would be closed. It doesn't make sense to me to locate a huge church in the middle of a business district--especially when, as has been pointed out, there are plenty of other non-historically significant places they could locate, including vacant churches that are for sale!
        
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      <![CDATA[oh, good god, the anti-christian, anti-church people are going to bring on the poor victim religious zealots now!
        
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      <![CDATA[Looking forward to hearing our neighbors' opinions at the PPNA meeting tonight! This is a horrendous idea that needs to be nipped in the bud now.
        
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      <![CDATA[There are empty buildings in that neighborhood going begging for occupants and they want to eject businesses and jobs from this historic neighborhood hub. It will kill this area.
        
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      <![CDATA[the do they just dont pay sales tax
        
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      <![CDATA[all "churches" should have to pay real estate taxes - this is a PRIME example<br>
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STARCHY
        
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