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Old Posted Apr 12, 2012, 4:11 PM
Nowhereman1280 Nowhereman1280 is offline
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^^^ Well Diversey has many of the same elements except for the wasteland around Elston. Mainly I just want to see Diversey and Belmont "blossom" like that all the way to Pulaski. My favorite part about those streets is that they aren't just repairing damaged urban fabric as many infill projects are, but rather jacking up the density from older SFH or purely commercial storefronts. So they are creating brand new urban fabric. This kind of development gives me hope that one day they will run out of spaces on the North and NW side to develop and will begin to tackle the bombed out areas on the South and West sides and restore the city to it's 1920's glory.



PS: Demolition on the El Centro project has just about wrapped up with the exception of the removal of the floor slabs, looks like they were beginning to attack the old loading docks today.
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