Along Garfield Boulevard, at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, the Obama Presidential Center would be triumphantly positioned as a gateway to Hyde Park and the Chicago lakefront.  More than this, the site of Twin Embraces offers a stunning opportunity to create a welcoming and engaging environment, ideally situated to compliment and strengthen the existing cityscape.  There is no need to damage the existing park, no need to harm the environment, no need to sacrifice history, and no need to interrupt the historic Boulevard System to achieve these goals.  Furthermore, there is no need to bury the Presidential Center in the dirt, as though ashamed of its own existence.  Rather, bold planning and fearless architecture can rise here, properly celebrating the legacy of President Barack Obama, but carefully and respectfully supporting the surrounding residential setting.

In contrast to the current site in Jackson Park, this site in the Washington Park neighborhood allows the Barack Obama Presidential Center to fully express itself and its grand intentions.  Freed from its underground bunker, the Center’s numerous activities will directly engage and inspire the public in a substantive way.  Thus capacitated, the Obama Presidential Center will rightfully take its place among Chicago’s most important cultural institutions, a true bastion of hope, equality, and progress.

An Obama Presidential Center set aside Washington Park would be positioned for maximum impact.  Located in the significant and beautiful, yet disadvantaged Washington Park community, this location offers a unique chance to provide a strategic infusion in the future of Chicago’s Black community, maximizing benefit for the neighborhood and Presidential Center alike.  The in-fill of a large, dispiriting void in the streetscape will yield great strides toward Washington Park's restoration, physically, economically, and spiritually, positioning this deserving place for its prosperous future.

Please visit the following sections of this site to experience a vision for how these unparalleled results can develop.