Tag: Plan for Transformation

Revisiting Park Boulevard in Bronzeville

Revisiting Park Boulevard in Bronzeville

The mixed-income Park Boulevard development in Bronzeville, on the former site of Stateway Gardens, is part of the CHA's ambitious and largely-sta [...]
How has the Plan for Transformation really changed the South and West sides?

How has the Plan for Transformation really changed the South and West sides?

"Part of the problem is that these neighborhoods are changing anyway, so not all of the poor people moving in are from the C.H.A. I think it's bec [...]

Quick hits: Habitat out as CHA receiver; revised plans for Lincoln Park Hospital site

Unless you follow our Chicago Real Estate News feed religiously, you might have missed these stories that came across the wire late today. Both storie [...]
Quote: Who has a stake in Roosevelt Square?

Quote: Who has a stake in Roosevelt Square?

“At every community meeting I’ve ever attended, the people who show up are the homeowners. If you pay $2,500 in rent, which is a fancy apartment, th [...]
Sales update: @properties handling sales for Parkside of Old Town's first phase

Sales update: @properties handling sales for Parkside of Old Town's first phase

With the construction of more public and affordable-housing units just around the corner, @properties has been called in to market the surplus of co [...]
Entering the Plan for Transformation's second decade

Entering the Plan for Transformation's second decade

We asked Habitat Company President / CEO Mark Segal for an assessment of what architect Pat FitzGerald once called a "daring experiment": the commun [...]
The fall of a Cabrini-Green tower

The fall of a Cabrini-Green tower

Kudos to Megan Cottrell for sharing this video with her readers. Her friends watched the slow demolition of a Cabrini-Green tower at 660 W Division St [...]

Lathrop Homes redevelopment plan calls for LEED-certified "sustainable community"

The CHA will redevelop the Lathrop Homes site at Damen and Diversey avenues using new US Green Building Council plan for sustainable communities, acco [...]

CHA's Transformation: "A tale of two cities"

“Midway through the Plan for Transformation, we have a tale of two cities. CHA families in new mixed-income communities now live in conditions indisti [...]
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