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Old Posted Jul 4, 2020, 12:28 PM
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Still a suburban shopping center, but with a nice facade. Hopefully it will not be just a bunch of national chains.
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^ Big improvement over whats there. At least they push the buildings up to the 26th St sidewalk to maintain the streetwall
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Little Village Plaza

I am a bit confused on the situations of these new buildings within the plaza, and the extent to which the existing shops will be demolished. There is no doubt that the new retail space will be occupied by national chains...

"The new owner of Little Village Plaza says he wants to bring in more national retailers to the six-acre South Lawndale shopping center and potentially close the Discount Mall. . ." (Mar 3, 2020)

IMO it would be pretty shit for the neighborhood to loose these small businesses and the access to affordable entrepreneurial opportunities for the sake of an LA Fitness and Raising Canes...
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I am a bit confused on the situations of these new buildings within the plaza, and the extent to which the existing shops will be demolished. There is no doubt that the new retail space will be occupied by national chains...

"The new owner of Little Village Plaza says he wants to bring in more national retailers to the six-acre South Lawndale shopping center and potentially close the Discount Mall. . ." (Mar 3, 2020)

IMO it would be pretty shit for the neighborhood to loose these small businesses and the access to affordable entrepreneurial opportunities for the sake of an LA Fitness and Raising Canes...
They are constructing two new "outlot" buildings fronting 26th, one of them replacing La Baguette. The existing buildings on the east and south side will be re-skinned.

This is a tricky one, usually these retail centers are over-parked but this one clearly doesn't have enough. The lot is almost always full. I'm not sure the city will allow them to add more leasable SF without also adding parking. TOD not an option here. In lieu of more parking, the city should really make the developers pay for the segment of the Paseo trail that would run behind the center, maybe all the way from California to Kedzie, and stock the shopping center with bike racks. Obviously nobody's gonna bike to the grocery store but people will absolutely bike to a gym or a pharmacy if there's a safe, quiet trail right there.
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Pardon the odd framing, this is after my shutter destroyed itself, but before I noticed - put a nice big black band across a few dozen shots.

I thought they were going to put the bike traffic on lower LSD - obviously there is more to it. currently rebuilding the lower deck on the East side, so we will see.

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Thanks! Boy from that angle it looks like that form steps away quite a bit from the bridge.

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^^ I feel like north pier in its current form is semi-useless, unless you have a nice yacht. I feel like Chicago could easily support a few small to mid-size cruise ships that could traverse the Great Lakes. Just need few hundred million to buy, refurbish and run 2-3 ships and extend north pier further into the lake and build a modest terminal to support the ships. No big deal
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Also, found this on reddit today - comet over Chicago's skies


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They are constructing two new "outlot" buildings fronting 26th, one of them replacing La Baguette. The existing buildings on the east and south side will be re-skinned.

This is a tricky one, usually these retail centers are over-parked but this one clearly doesn't have enough. The lot is almost always full. I'm not sure the city will allow them to add more leasable SF without also adding parking. TOD not an option here. In lieu of more parking, the city should really make the developers pay for the segment of the Paseo trail that would run behind the center, maybe all the way from California to Kedzie, and stock the shopping center with bike racks. Obviously nobody's gonna bike to the grocery store but people will absolutely bike to a gym or a pharmacy if there's a safe, quiet trail right there.
Yeah, just from looking at google maps and street view that lot is packed with cars. I'd be happy with a bike oriented development though and the new out lots would surly increase traffic to the other shops.
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^^ I feel like north pier in its current form is semi-useless, unless you have a nice yacht. I feel like Chicago could easily support a few small to mid-size cruise ships that could traverse the Great Lakes. Just need few hundred million to buy, refurbish and run 2-3 ships and extend north pier further into the lake and build a modest terminal to support the ships. No big deal
North Pier? You mean the River East Center?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pier_(Chicago)
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North Pier? You mean the River East Center?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pier_(Chicago)
No, I mean the actual pier out in Lake Michigan (it's technically referred to as North Pier, just south of Navy Pier).
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I feel like Chicago could easily support a few small to mid-size cruise ships that could traverse the Great Lakes.
I give the city tours (by bus) to some of the groups that arrive on the existing Great Lakes cruise ships. I usually meet the groups down at Iroquois Landing on the Calumet River, quite a slog, and quite a security hassle to get in and out of. But once last summer they had docked at Navy Pier. I never quite found out what circumstances allowed it that one time, but not for the other voyages.

I think there are three cruise lines currently (in a normal year) doing Great Lakes cruises, and Viking is coming.

Not sure what you mean by "North Pier." The north lock structure? Or Dime Pier?
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I give the city tours (by bus) to some of the groups that arrive on the existing Great Lakes cruise ships. I usually meet the groups down at Iroquois Landing on the Calumet River, quite a slog, and quite a security hassle to get in and out of. But once last summer they had docked at Navy Pier. I never quite found out what circumstances allowed it that one time, but not for the other voyages.

I think there are three cruise lines currently (in a normal year) doing Great Lakes cruises, and Viking is coming.

Not sure what you mean by "North Pier." The north lock structure? Or Dime Pier?

How does the tour bus get to the rest of Chicago from there? That's a pretty hard to reach spot.
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