YoChicago’s series of video interviews with developer George Thrush, of The Thrush Companies, continues. In this installment, Thrush discusses his first forays into development in Lincoln Park, then a neighborhood he describes as “tough.”
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It’s not every day you hear an 80 year old ex-IBM guy in a suit talk about the nuances of gang drug trade.
I would love to buy this man a beer. And his comment on drug dealing rings totally true to me.
He’s right, that block of Bissell is quite special architecturally. I’m happy he was part of it’s revival.
When I first came to town, I looked at an apartment in one of those buildings. There was a 2×4 bracing one of the exit doors shut in the kitchen, and I wanted to see where it went. So I removed the 2×4, opened the door, and a brown line train went thundering by no less than five feet away! We didn’t take the apartment, but I’d love to live on the east side of that street!
It’s not every day you hear an 80 year old ex-IBM guy in a suit talk about the nuances of gang drug trade.
I would love to buy this man a beer. And his comment on drug dealing rings totally true to me.
He’s right, that block of Bissell is quite special architecturally. I’m happy he was part of it’s revival.
When I first came to town, I looked at an apartment in one of those buildings. There was a 2×4 bracing one of the exit doors shut in the kitchen, and I wanted to see where it went. So I removed the 2×4, opened the door, and a brown line train went thundering by no less than five feet away! We didn’t take the apartment, but I’d love to live on the east side of that street!