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Jibba · #**51161** Posted **Aug 31, 2022, 8:52 PM**

Looking S Down Sedgwick

thegoatman · #**51162** Posted **Aug 31, 2022, 8:57 PM**

Chicago Ave is really becoming a nice corridor, but before it can realize its true potential, they need to tear down those shitty projects on sedgwick (marshall field gardens i think? and the cabrini rowhomes). It'll make the activists mad but it doesnt matter, replace them with proper mixed income housing. Those 20th century housing projects that thought concentrated poverty would be a good idea needs t be a thing of the past.

Randomguy34 · #**51163** Posted **Aug 31, 2022, 9:02 PM**

Dude. Calm. Down.

ardecila · #**51164** Posted **Aug 31, 2022, 10:09 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Via Chicago

i dont think alley power lines are too big a deal. my bigger annoyance is the street light wires which hang over parkways, which inevitably lead to trees either not being able to be planted under them, or awful hack jobs once they get tall enough to interfere.

I think this is an anti-theft strategy, they don't want people stealing copper from the streetlights. If all the wires run 20' in the air they are harder to reach than just going in a handhole and cutting out some wire with pliers.

The newer installations have a more burglar-proof handhole with tamper-resistant screws, etc.

gandalf612 · #**51165** Posted **Sep 1, 2022, 5:56 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by thegoatman

Chicago Ave is really becoming a nice corridor, but before it can realize its true potential, they need to tear down those shitty projects on sedgwick (marshall field gardens i think? and the cabrini rowhomes). It'll make the activists mad but it doesnt matter, replace them with proper mixed income housing. Those 20th century housing projects that thought concentrated poverty would be a good idea needs t be a thing of the past.

The boarded up and fenced off Cabrini rowhomes are ghastly and should be renovated but the rest are serviceable, in theory when CHA rebuilds on the rest of the land it WILL be mixed-income. Marshall field gardens on the other hand are perfectly fine brick apartment buildings, I truly can't see what your problem with them is unless you just hate poor people

thegoatman · #**51166** Posted **Sep 1, 2022, 7:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by gandalf612

The boarded up and fenced off Cabrini rowhomes are ghastly and should be renovated but the rest are serviceable, in theory when CHA rebuilds on the rest of the land it WILL be mixed-income. Marshall field gardens on the other hand are perfectly fine brick apartment buildings, I truly can't see what your problem with them is unless you just hate poor people

I stand corrected, the Marshall Field Gardens are fine. Although I would prefer if they added some more mixed income people.

But yeah, the whole old Cabrini area needs to meet the bulldozer, ghastly. It's a stain on the city, no offense. Kinda blows my mind for decades nothing have been done to this area, it's literally on prime real estate. I mean look at this...

west-town-brad · #**51167** Posted **Sep 1, 2022, 1:54 PM**

someone asked for photos on this project and yimbychicago has some recent ones

https://chicagoyimby.com/2022/09/fac...an-square.html

progress is up to the 5th floor as of today, the photos in the article only show 4th floor

ardecila · #**51168** Posted **Sep 1, 2022, 3:06 PM**

I think they will eventually tear down the Cabrini rowhouses, but they won't announce it yet because of the blowback they will get.

At this rate the surrounding land will be filled up within 10-15 years and they can get top dollar for the land - it may throw off enough surplus value that they can actually get a decent number of new public housing units built in the area.

Steely Dan · #**51169** Posted **Sep 1, 2022, 5:41 PM**

Noise discussion moved to the politics thread:

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...13683&page=174

BrinChi · #**51170** Posted **Sep 1, 2022, 7:11 PM**

delete

Randomguy34 · #**51171** Posted **Sep 1, 2022, 10:42 PM**

Two projects on the Far South Side are applying for city grants: 1) 101-room Hampton by Hilton hotel at 111th St and Doty Ave in Pullman and 2) Save A Lot supermarket immediately south of Pullman at 130th St and Eberhardt Ave in Altgeld Gardens

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/comm...itched-pullman

marothisu · #**51172** Posted **Sep 2, 2022, 3:39 AM**

Convent Hotel addition was issued a new construction permit in East Lincoln Park. One of the few "open" pieces of land (parking lot) in that area still - it'll be 7 stories (80 feet tall) with 84 market rate units. This is right behind Clark St. Convent Hotel itself is being converted from 64 SRO units to 30 affordable units

The site:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9315...7i16384!8i8192

Some renderings via https://chicagoyimby.com/2022/08/sep...coln-park.html

Razorback · #**51173** Posted **Sep 3, 2022, 3:14 PM**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq-bEQBhEvE

Razorback · #**51174** Posted **Sep 3, 2022, 3:21 PM**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by-K06rtrTI&t=7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfzmKTtm6Vc&t=143s

SolarWind · #**51175** Posted **Sep 6, 2022, 2:25 AM**

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SolarWind · #**51177** Posted **Sep 6, 2022, 2:27 AM**

September 1, 2022

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BVictor1 · #**51179** Posted **Sep 7, 2022, 12:41 AM**

09.06.22

63rd & Maryland

marothisu · #**51180** Posted **Sep 7, 2022, 6:43 PM**

New construction permit issued for the vacant land at Adams & Leavitt to build a new 4 story, 15 unit building, The same developer owns the vacant land a block or so west at Adams & Oakley.