There's a plan to develop a tower apartment building in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood, and some people who live there are not happy about it.
Tower part of proposed plan to redevelop stretch of North Avenue from Wells Street to LaSalle Drive Some Old Town , Chicago residents are pushing back on a proposal to build a tower apartment building at North and Wells .There's a plan to develop a tower apartment building in Chicago 's Old Town neighborhood, and some people who live there are not happy about it.
"What we don't want is a giant tower with 500 rental units slap dab in the middle of Old Town, where there's already enough traffic that you can't drive down on North Avenue most days," said Jordan Matyas, a resident and lobbyist with community group Old Town Friends for Responsible Developments."I told the developer when he first came to me, and said, 'if you want to get this through the community, he's got to win over the community.
Hopkins has yet to take a position on the project. He said it all depends on what his constituents want.
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