Something had to be done. After years and years of touting Wicker Park as the next Lincoln Park, no one was buying it any more. Too little had changed in all those years.
What to do? A loosely-knit group of real estate folk stitched together pieces of West Town, Wicker Park and Logan Square and began calling the result Bucktown. People began to believe in Bucktown, and Bucktown came to be.
About a dozen years ago developer Bill Senne – one of the original “barons of Bucktown” – began pioneering “West Bucktown,” a newly-minted moniker for stretches of Humboldt Park and Logan Square.
Will the West Bucktown moniker stick? Senne and I banter about the topic in the video above. We’ll have more video of my visit with Bill Senne at his Ecologic Lofts development, 2359 N. Seeley Ave.
Check back later for more video of my interview with Bill Senne.