大发体育官网公布了2.5亿美元的95街计划

A panel of local leaders pitched four projects — modeled after UChicago’s 艺术 Incubator, Casa Querétaro in Pilsen and other mixed-use buildings — for vacant land on 95th Street 在国王大道和草堂格罗夫大道之间.

The campus of 大发体育官网 in the Roseland neighborhood on April 7, 2021. 图片来源:Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago

 

ROSELAND — 大发体育官网 is looking to boost Roseland’s 95th Street corridor, potentially overhauling 4 acres of vacant land into student- and family-focused 发展.

The economic development plan targets 95th Street between 王开 and Cottage Grove 大道. The plan recommends several projects on vacant land with a focus on adding to the community’s housing and retail options and improving pedestrian experiences, 除此之外.

该计划提出了四个混合用途建筑的场地. 大学会优先考虑 two sites near the Metra station at 95th Street and Cottage Grove 大道, followed 在圣巴巴拉附近的两个地点重建. 劳伦斯大道和国王大道.

The site at the northeast corner of 95th and Cottage Grove is city- and privately-owned, 而其他三个站点归大学所有. 总的来说，该计划要求 for up to 240 units of student and family housing and up to 45,000 square feet of 学术及零售空间.

The projects can establish 95th Street as a draw for neighbors on the Far South Side and in south Chicagoland, local leaders said during the plan’s launch Monday at the 格温多林·布鲁克斯图书馆，9501 S. 王开.

“We are ready to anchor the work,” 大发体育官网 President Zaldwaynaka 斯科特说. “我们已经准备好接受额外的投资和零售设施， entertainment and more academic venues can [provide] for our local residents.”

大发体育官网 president Zaldwaynaka Scott speaks during the Oct. 16日发布 95街走廊的开发计划. 该计划要求四个混合用途 发展
to be built on vacant land on Chicago State’s campus and near the 95th Street Metra 停止. 来源:Maxwell Evans/Block Club Chicago

University of Chicago’s 艺术 Incubator in Washington Park, Casa Querétaro in Pilsen and the Thrive Exchange development in progress in South Shore can be models for the 官员们说，这些地点位于村舍格罗夫大道十字路口附近.

Concepts for the Cottage Grove sites include ground-floor retail space for “services that cater to both the [university] population and the surrounding community,” like 咖啡馆和书店. 学生宿舍和公寓将建在 楼上.

西部遗址靠近圣. 劳伦斯大道和国王大道可以模仿项目 like the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Academic and Residential Complex or UChicago’s 校园北住宅区，官员说.

Concepts for the western 发展 include four mixed-use buildings with retail and academic space on the ground floor, with student and family housing above.

The proposal would maintain existing pedestrian paths, keep as many mature trees as possible — an important point for the several hundred neighbors who informed the plan ——并为活动创造更多的公共空间，官员们说.

Chicago State’s 160-acre campus is an asset to the community, but “we aren’t using 这几乎是我们所能做到的. 尼古拉斯·史密斯，大发体育官网校友. “I was so happy to take a look at this plan and see that we’re proposing to add some 主走廊上有更多的建筑.”

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A rendering of the planned development sites at 95th Street and Cottage Grove 大道, 在即将翻新的第95街地铁车站附近. 来源:芝加哥 州立大学

 

A south-facing rendering of the planned development sites on 95th Street between King 路与街. 劳伦斯大道.

The transit-oriented development proposals come as Metra and Chicago State are set 2024年开始检修第95街车站. 这个耗资4500万美元的项目将会 bring new headhouses on the platforms, waiting areas with on-demand heat and a new 到地铁线路站的停车转乘处.

The proposals are also within a mile of the 95th Street Red Line Station, which reopened in 2019 after a $280 million renovation and will connect to Far South Side 停止s along 未来延伸至130街的红线.

“What a joy it is to see this possibility coming to fruition right next door to one 芝加哥最大的交通枢纽之一. 威廉·霍尔(第6位)说.

It will cost an estimated $250 million to complete all aspects of the development 计划，斯科特说.

That will require public and private funding, as well as continued feedback from neighbors 官员们说，还有当地开发商和机构的推介. 没有具体的 计划完成的时间表.

“Each of us has something we can do to bring this vision to life,” said Karen Freeman-Wilson, 芝加哥城市联盟的总裁兼首席执行官. “我给你们的挑战是滚起来 你的袖子可以做到这一点.”

位于罗斯兰的大发体育官网. 资料来源:脸谱网/大发体育官网

The university and others involved in the development plan must do more to answer residents’ questions and encourage community input as the projects move forward, some 会后邻居们说.

A panel of politicians and civic leaders praised the plan for nearly an hour, but 他们只回答了两个问题&会议结束前的一次会议.

Sylvia Jones, vice president of the South/West Area Civic League of Chicago, called for the eventual developers to make it a priority to hire minority contractors for 他们的项目.

The university should look to improve its existing infrastructure as it prepares for the 发展, said Deborah Foster-Bonner, a former 6th Ward aldermanic candidate.

“Is [the development] going to be like what’s here now, or is it going to be better?” Foster-Bonner说. “为什么不现在就解决问题呢?”

Chicago State and the city’s planning department agreed in late 2020 to study future 95街的开发项目.

Community members named wider pedestrian walkways; additional restaurants, grocery and retail; more housing; reflections of Black culture and preservation of the campus’ 官员们表示，绿化是他们发展的重点之一.

下午6点将举行一次虚拟公开会议.m. 11月. 1 .讨论未来的更广 95th Street corridor — including the Chicago State study area between 王开 and 村舍格罗夫，向西延伸到霍尔斯特德街. 登记, 点击这里.

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