What we’re reading this week (December 1)

Published on Dec. 1, 2016 by Steven Vance


  • Cedar Street sells its headquarters building in Uptown “cashing in on some of the rising property values it has helped create” (Crain’s via Bisnow)
  • Why Mariano’s ended up never coming to South Shore, and no one’s heard of the new green grocer in the neighborhood (South Side Weekly)
  • Construction permit issued for new affordable housing development in Brighton Park (Curbed)
Six-story building designed by UrbanWorks (the scattered gray panels look like the 1611 W Division building).
  • City Council approves first-ever Transit TIF to generate funds to rebuild the CTA’s Red Line north of Belmont (Streetsblog)
  • The next revision of the TOD law needs to start upzoning the parking lots that surround CTA stations (Cityscape)

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