Similarly, what to do with McKee?

Some white aldermen in the city actually found themselves on the wrong side of a racially split vote to approve tax incentives for a health care facility in an area deprived of such development. If not McKee, then who? Is that what the lawsuits and opposition to NorthSide Regeneration are really about? Now that McKee has very directly led to the relocation of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and its multibillion-dollar building project, is it time to push him out of the way so some more-favored developer can reap the benefits, or, worse yet, redirect the existing TIF money to a downtown project south of the Delmar Divide such as, perhaps, a soccer stadium?

Like McKee or not, the city has invested in him, and can’t just erase the progress he is very much a part of (including a new grocery store), simply because so many have soured on his ability to implement a vision endorsed by previous elected officials and enshrined into both local and state law.

Like the Loop Trolley or not, millions of dollars have been invested in its existence, and undoing the project might cost more, in real dollars and in future federal funding, than swallowing hard and finding a way to make lemonade out of lemons.