| NEW OLD CHICAGO AREA PLAN
The Planning and Design Institute of Milwaukee, WI has developed its final concept plan for the New Old Chicago Neighborhood. This area is bounded by 12th Avenue on the south, 12th Street on the east and the Rock Island Parkway (Centennial Expressway) on the north and west.
The Plan envisions new commercial, residential and park investments, remodeled and renovated homes and commercial buildings and enhanced streetscapes (repaving streets, planting trees and decorative crosswalks). This is not a short-term project, but one that will take ten or more years and significant sums of private and public funds.
With planned improvements to 7th Avenue from Mill Street to 22nd Street in 2006 and 2007, the Douglas Park Place Apartment building at 7th Avenue and 9th Street (an eight-unit building scheduled for construction in 2006), selective demolition on 10th Street and the possibility of expanding the King Center, visible changes and sizeable investments will take place soon.
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