This is a great question. I have an employee that lives just down the street from the property and she is going to be moving in the next year. I think once they build the stadium (if) which will be 10 years or more before it is open, then you might see a bump in the immediate vicinity. But maybe not, maybe too many people will sell. 20 minutes away or where I am will not see an impact. AH is a 75k suburb surrounded by suburbs of equal size. So I don't think anything outside of a 2-5 miles from the stadium will see to much of an impact.
You certainly can take public transport to any game in Chicago. But it doesn't mean it is easy or convenient at least in my mind. Getting to a Cubs game via public transport is not too bad. But leaving in the masses sucks. That is MHO anyway. I am sure others feel different. That said I love going to Wrigley and have had a 9 game season ticket share for years. But Wrigley and the neighborhood are a destination. Soldier Field isn't, it is just an event location with nothing around it but expensive limited parking.
I think we are a ways away from knowing if this is a done deal, or if this is just putting more pressure on the city to make land available. Who knows how it plays out. I am not a Bears fan, but one of my buddies is happy because he knows no matter what now they are getting a new stadium and the team needs that. Solider Field is actually not a bad place to watch a game, but for a metro of 9 million people it is tiny and was ill conceived and for a city with some of the best architecture in the world, it is an eyesore. It is too small, not enough bathrooms, not big enough concourses and way to few seats.
I heard a guy on the radio talking about NFL franchise values once, and his comment about the bears being the 15th most value franchise, when they should be in the top three speaks volumes to how poorly they have been run for years. Getting a new stadium no matter where that the team controls goes a long way to fixing those issues.
