Posted Apr 25, 2017, 2:30 AM
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Like Englewood, Bronzeville, Woodlawn gets new grocer: Jewel-Osco
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Maudlyne Ihejirika 04/24/2017, 09:11pm
Like many residents of the Woodlawn community on the South Side, Lola Gray has waited a long time to see the community come back up — 19 years, in her case. And on Tuesday, when the city is expected to announce it has lured a new Jewel-Osco grocery store to fill the long-blighted area of 61st and Cottage Grove — further eradicating city food deserts — she’ll be saying, “Hallelujah.”
The 40,000-square-foot grocery with a drive-thru pharmacy is expected to open in late 2018, in an example of the kind of redevelopment radiating in close proximity to the Obama Presidential Center to be built just south of Woodlawn in Jackson Park.
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The new grocery store targeted for this community, which has long suffered disinvestment, follows the arrival last fall of major grocery chains in two similar communities: Englewood, which saw the historic opening of a new Whole Foods store at 63rd and Halsted, and Bronzeville, which saw Mariano’s open at Pershing Road and King Drive.
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And a lot has been going on. Emanuel and U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., on Monday announced conceptual plans to revitalize and renovate CTA’s 63rd and Cottage Grove Green Line station and its surrounding area, with visual, architectural and lighting treatments. And last week, Emanuel and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., celebrated the ground breaking for Woodlawn Station, a four-story, mixed-use, mixed-income housing development going up adjacent to the L station. It’s being built with $30.5 million from the federal Choice Neighborhood Grant Fund that helped leverage more than $400 million in private sector investment. It’s a program President Donald Trump seeks to eliminate in his budget blueprint.
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http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/lik...er-jewel-osco/
Last edited by Randomguy34; Apr 25, 2017 at 5:14 AM.
Reason: Sun Times updated article with corrections
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