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Originally Posted by ardecila
Jefferson Square is open now? Jeez I live 5 minutes away and didn't know. I don't think they have any signage on 18th or Cermak. I need to go check it out!
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Yeah, it's open..21st and Cermak basically. There is a hot pot place there which opened in the summer, its first location in the US (a chain from Chongqing -
https://www.yelp.com/biz/qiao-lin-hotpot-chicago-2). Apparently the best hot pot in Chicago.
Also, the massive supermarket opened there a few months ago. It's 80K sq ft of mostly Asian food and alcohol:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/88-marketplace-chicago-4
Besides that, there's supposed to be a few new restaurants there such as a Chinese BBQ place ("Holu House"), Bubble Tea, etc. BBQ King House, a Chinatown mainstay, just opened up in their food court and I believe Taipei Cafe is supposed to open an outpost there too. There's also a sushi place there called 312 Fish Market, which has $55, $88, and $123 omakase (but due to dine in restrictions doesn't serve it to go/delivery).
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Canal Plaza is just puzzling. I love that the developer saw potential in such an awkward shaped, constrained site but it's almost entirely vacant still.
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As far as I know, they just finished up not long ago. Super slow construction. So far I know of a dentist office, Monkey King Jianbing, and some water place called Hydr8 Your Life actually open all very recently. There are multiple other places that will soon open up in there I know about.
Start at 45 seconds here. All those places already signed on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31xwr6CcdFk
That includes a new Chinese BBQ place as well as some other places. Moon & Flower House from NYC is opening up there too which actually slings chicken wings, burgers, etc. I think you'll see more and more places open up in that place in the coming few months from what I know.
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Originally Posted by the urban politician
I will be happy when the Chinatown Parking lot adjacent to the Red Line stop at Cermak gets redeveloped. That is prime real estate destined for something far better than surface parking
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I actually found plans for a mid rise to be put there via a Chinese social media site. It fell through because enough people complained about the lack of parking. No joke, but you have to remember that there's a bunch of people coming into Chinatown from areas like Bridgeport, McKinley Park, Brighton Park, Archer Height, suburbs, etc via car to Chinatown. They aren't taking the trains and as someone else explained to me, there's more of a drive to make a huge Chinatown instead of taking over retail in neighborhoods like Brighton Park. A destination of sorts. There's a reason why they are expanding into these new "no man's land" areas right next to Chinatown though almost with these giant new developments with ample parking and not necessarily constraining themselves to Chinatown proper anymore. Enough demand via car and also saw the opportunity to expand the boundaries of "Chinatown."