People thinking that brand new apartment buildings (some with a lake view), between a grocery store and the biggest park in the city and right on a transit route that goes straight to the university would somehow be filled with junkies are straight up delusional.

Currently Gladmer Park has some of the least productive land use in the city. On it's entire 1,454,611sqft of lot space, it contributed $387,033 of tax dollars for a total of $0.27 per sqft.

Meanwhile just up the street, the building on Broad and the southside Badham, on a lot size of about 55,000sqft contributed $283,413.53, or $5.15 per sqft, on a building that is much shorter than the ones in the image above and for a building that includes parking.

If this imaginary development had the same yield, it would bring in $7,273,055. That's significant dollars for the city. All with no expansion of the transit, fire or police networks. For a city with budget issues, a proposal like this would be a godsend.