Much ink has been spilled about the overhaul of Cabrini-Green, the notorious public housing project. Last night we wandered through parts of Cabrini, where a few people sat in doorways or lugged grocery bags into the sagging, rotting buildings. Walking south, we came across The Hudson, a mid-rise condo building that’s part of Parkside of Old Town, the mixed-income community that will replace part of Cabrini with 790 low- and mid-rise homes.
The Hudson is on Division Street, just to the west of Seward Park, and across the street from a shopping center. Condos will have one or two bedrooms and one or two bathrooms. Prices on market-rate units start in the $300s.
Last we checked, construction on the building was slated to wrap up next summer.
Not bad.
Now all they need to do is bulldoze that shamelessly suburban, butt-ugly disgrace of a strip center next door.
Or send it to India
“Strip center next door?” What, there’s a group of “gentlemen’s clubs” in the ‘hood? I know there was one in the Goose Island area a few years back, never went there, don’t know if it’s still around.