The middle of the last decade surfaced a number of ambitious new residential developments on or near Western Avenue in Chicago’s heavily Latino Brighton Park neighborhood.
The developments typically took their names from the nearby McKinley Park neighborhood and park, and they all turned out to be failures to a greater or lesser degree.
Join me for a look at McKinley Park Lofts, which we wrote about yesterday, and half a dozen other developments on this marginal misery tour.
“It’s a good place to get out of.”
Indeed. I feel sorry for all the folks who bought into these developments (the ones that exist) and are now horribly underwater. I can’t imagine what that one developer was thinking building homes sandwiched between an alley and train tracks. I can’t imagine who would have bought there even in 2006.