Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday pushed back hard against the notion that her signature plan to rebuild 10 South and West Side commercial strips is more talk than action.
. Because if you sit down on Michigan Avenue and you write something, you better know what you’re talking about. Because we are seeing tangible, concrete evidence that Invest South/West is changing the fortunes of communities that have been disinvested in for far too long."
A $6 million tax increment-financing subsidy — and a $1 price tag for the nearly century-old firehouse and city-owned land valued at $417,000 — made Tuesday’s Englewood groundbreaking possible. "Better yet, this project will offer fresh, healthy food year-round by repurposing vacant land with hoop houses to provide year-round farming operations," she said.When the Green Street firehouse "with all of this Tudor detail" was completed in 1929, it would have been "very hard for them to imagine the neighborhood’s challenges and opportunities" nearly a century later, Cox said."You know what’s also resilient? Buildings are resilient.
The project is expected to soften what Lightfoot has called the "gut blow" from Amazon’s decision to close the Whole Foods store in Englewood just south of the firehouse.
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