Some options in Arlington Heights

If the Chicago Bears don't build on the 326-acre vacant lot in Arlington Heights, I have some money-making ideas on the uses for their property. PROJECT 326 could be used for electric car races, using professional drivers — betting allowed, silent with no exhaust contamination.

These EVs could be built by the local high school clubs as a project, a competitive effort against other schools.

Or maybe a tree-lined picnic, beer garden, polka party area by the lake, concerts by the lake, an ice skating facility in the winter — no guns please.

Or human races on the track, marathons or steeplechase races, betting allowed. Or raise beef cows with a packing house on site, designed to look like an ice cream plant. Or farm it, crops of beans or corn, all done by horse drawn equipment, no carbon footprint.

Bill Mitchell

Arlington Heights