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Old Posted Jul 30, 2019, 10:25 PM
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Well thank you ! An uncle is coming to visit next month and specifically asked to see some Prairie. He is in his late 80s so long hikes are not in the cards. Had never heard of this will be checking it out.
its a neat little hidden gem!

theres also a nice little pocket in Westchester (if you dont follow this guys channel you should)

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Old Posted Jul 31, 2019, 4:20 PM
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its a neat little hidden gem!

theres also a nice little pocket in Westchester (if you dont follow this guys channel you should)

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Dats hilarious, I mean this guy...he knows bout the prayries over by dere
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Well thank you ! An uncle is coming to visit next month and specifically asked to see some Prairie. He is in his late 80s so long hikes are not in the cards. Had never heard of this will be checking it out.
That park looks awesome! Love the "cliffs".

Even better, the Sugar Shack is just a few blocks to the east if you want to re-invigorate your uncle. Would make for a memorable day, that's for sure!
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Edit: Moody sale already posted. Seems like a big opportunity to expand the core

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Obviously no. Sigcho thinks he can force the Archdiocese to keep St Adalbert open by taking away the resale value of the land. It's utterly, utterly boneheaded, he's in denial. There's no viable path to keep the church open. If he wanted to preserve the building, there are much better tools available - he could simply push to repeal the ban on landmarking churches, or at least to make an exception, and extend historic protection to the building.

The rezoning of the property as a cemetery is such a drastic reduction of value that it arguably violates the takings clause (which is pretty hard to do in the zoning context) since it has no economic or beneficial use. Other downzoning efforts, to single family or single story uses, at least preserved some residual economic value.
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The Western Center Townhouses. 3600 S Western. 12 of the townhouses already issued permits. There will be 6 total buildings like this - each door is to townhouse and all 3 floors. Not sure what they were thinking LOL.

Land is currently vacant and there's a bunch of new homes right near this that were built a few years ago:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/36...!4d-87.6859469

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The Western Center Townhouses. 3600 S Western. 12 of the townhouses already issued permits. There will be 6 total buildings like this - each door is to townhouse and all 3 floors. Not sure what they were thinking LOL.

Land is currently vacant and there's a bunch of new homes right near this that were built a few years ago:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/36...!4d-87.6859469

Wrong thread, but I'm looking at an 8 unit two blocks north of the Western Orange Line, so I'll take it. Probably targeting Chinese buyers?
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Wrong thread, but I'm looking at an 8 unit two blocks north of the Western Orange Line, so I'll take it. Probably targeting Chinese buyers?
LOL oops. Hopefully a mod moves this to General Discussion. Yes absolutely from a Chinese company. Also not too far around the corner on Pershing near the actual park has a few more small developments plus the big warehouse renovations planned or already started on Pershing.
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There will be 6 total buildings like this

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I think it's great news, whether or not you're a huge fan of the house designs.

New housing replacing vacant land, new residents investing on the south side of the city. I mean, that's what we need more of on the south side.
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Old Posted Aug 3, 2019, 3:29 PM
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I think it's great news, whether or not you're a huge fan of the house designs.

New housing replacing vacant land, new residents investing on the south side of the city. I mean, that's what we need more of on the south side.
Agree on that. And hopefully opening up of more Chinese restaurants in some of these areas. It'll happen on Archer with the big new development there if it sells well - some other companies are building smaller buildings with ground floor business space across the street from that too.
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Barneys Chicago closing


Will leave huge hole for Oak/Rush retail
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^ That was inevitable. A lot more of that to come....
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I think it's great news, whether or not you're a huge fan of the house designs.

New housing replacing vacant land, new residents investing on the south side of the city. I mean, that's what we need more of on the south side.


Disagree with both you guys. We're not talking about an area that is starved for new housing investment - where anything being built should be blindly cheered. Not by a long shot. This is McKinley Park - Redfin ranked it as the nation's hottest affordable neighborhood earlier this year. Capital is flooding the area, focused primarily on residential, but also now increasingly on the commercial side as well. This is awful anti-urban design. There's a lot of this from Chinese developers (obviously focused on Chinese buyers) in particular - where you see rows of townhomes that end to the main street, with a very unattractive, uninviting, anti-pedestrian/urban presence streetside. I mean, c'mon - this is Western, a commercial thoroughfare that these abut. This is junk design. Period. Zoning shouldn't alow these to be configured as such. Mistake.
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Old Posted Aug 6, 2019, 6:55 PM
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Will leave huge hole for Oak/Rush retail
Real talk: this building is only about a decade old. Do we think a tear-down is possible? What could/would conceivably fill this spot? With stores like Bloomingdale's down-sizing by combining their home and regular stores, a department store seems highly unlikely.

The current site is zoned DX-12 (FAR of 12.0) though it's an odd size/shape- basically just the Barney's.
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Old Posted Aug 6, 2019, 7:00 PM
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^ Not a likely near-term tear-down prospect.

The eventual new owner/developer will likely try to creatively re-tenant. It will take quite a bit of time, and will sit vacant for an extended spell. The plus side is that this is obviously very prime real estate, and eventually it will be filled. It's really all about the team (new owner/leasing team/design team, etc) that will be working on it. All about their experience, competence and motivation/drive. Varies all over the map, of course.

If it sits empty for long enough, than yes, it's a possible tear-down for a developer that can put together a plan with political backing for a high-rise (my guess as most likely would be very high-end condos).
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I'm disappointed Barney's decided to close this location considering they're keeping their NY/California flagships open. Maybe it could be split into several smaller stores, with a food hall taking up a good amount of the space?

Edit: The current owner (ASB) is a pretty impressive company that focuses on high quality, core retail assets. I think they're as well equipped to re-lease it as anybody.
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Old Posted Aug 6, 2019, 7:34 PM
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Lol, Barney's building...tear down. Yeah right. That building was purchased in 2011 for $117M. Only 2 years later, Th
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