Most professional football players buy expensive homes, cars and jewelry with their fat pay checks. Carolina Panther Julius Peppers just bought a 115,000-square-foot historic building in Chicago.
Peppers announced the purchase cryptically on Twitter Tuesday, by reposting a Crain’s Business Journal story about former Chicago Bear Israel Idonije buying the 1920s Hudson Motor building on Chicago’s Near South Side. Peppers’s name shows up later in the story, as one of the investors.
He retweeted the story twice in four hours on Tuesday.
Crain’s reported that the vacant building is worth about $5.8 million and Idonije envisions it being part of a rebirth occurring in that trendy part of Chicago.