Someone asked the following:
*How about some information about the 111th and Kedzie project that has turned the area into looking like crap. Are we ever going to get the truth from the Alderman? From the developer? From anyone?
Does anyone know anything...buildings were torn down, stores have moved, and for what??? Now we have empty store fronts and vacant lots. I had heard that Starbucks had pulled out which makes sense since they are closing stores all over.
Where do we go from here? Wasn't the Alderman's platform at re-election mostly based on the development of her Ward? 111th Street from Sacramento to Pulaski is starting to look like a ghost town. Before the snow fell, you could almost see the tumbleweeds rolling down 111th Street.
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I would like to know why park rules are not enforced in Mt. greenwood park. People from all over bring their dogs to crap in our park, even in the new ball fields because the police in their suburban parks enforce the law. They come here, no leash, bait the squirrels, and get joy watching their dogs try to kill them. enough is enough.
why won't they put a snow fence up in Mt. Greenwood park like they did years ago? Us that live across from the park are chest deep in snow and cannot get out of our driveways because of drifting snow. Called the aldermans office and they said they can't afford it. What a joke.
Everyone should also read the Chicago Reader articles by Ben Joravsky about the TIF Districts in Chicago. Yes, The Reader is a very Liberal paper but he really exposes the shame of the TIF's.
Mt Greenwood has it's own TIF area that runs down 111th and for a few blocks on Kedzie. All those increase that we have seens in tax dollars are funneled out the area. A TIF is suppose to help a BLIGHTED area.
Well, before the TIF I never knew the area was blighted. Now with hte TIF an the in action of development the are is blighted. Where is all the money?
Per the comment prior here is the link for the Chicago Reader. This will explain what a TIF actually is. Hope it helps.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/
features/stories/theworks/071101/
It's obvious Ginger really doesn't care about Mt. Greenwood or West Beverly. But a project in her beloved North Beverly gets completed. 95th and Western looks great, plus east of Western with the Borders book store and more. What about 111th and Kedzie, and what about 106th-107th and Western.
This property looks like garbage.
what about western, lots of issues there. the old taco bell looks terrible!
Maureen Chausse said...
At the Town Hall Meeting on November Alderman Rugai announced that the development at 111th & Kedzie had finally met all requirements for building permits. We should see ground breaking in early spring with a completion date of September 09. I have had the September 09 opening date of Walgreens confirmed with a Walgreens headquarters employee. We did loose Starbucks, but that was because Starbucks decided to shut down so many stores. Dunkin Donuts is working on a propsal for the space.
December 11, 2008 9:31 AM
Maureen, Do you trust her?
How long has this project been going on? How many dates for ground breaking been anounced just to watch those dates come and go?
Just like the other post pointed out, she cares nothing about Mt Greenwood. Beverly continually gets projects envisioned, started, and completed while Mt Greenwoods projects do not.
The 95th & Western develpoment started years afet 11th and Kedzie and that has been completed for over a year now. You drive down 111th and is looks like Detroit.
Any and all problems with the project comes from the Aldermans office. She has stated numerous times about building permit issues. She is the Alderman and all Alderman control building issues in their ward so how come she can not get those worked out?
What about 115th and western most of those corner lots have been vacant for years and you never here any plans about that intersection being built up, and 118th and Western looks like any block on 63rd St. from Western to Pulaski. Honestly Ginger, what were you thinking of letting a Harold's chicken be built in that neighborhood. We in Mount Greenwood, West Beverly, Beverly Woods and Morgan Park are sick of being treated like the red headed stepchild to your precious Beverly. I hope you all join me in getting her kicked out off office in the next (what will seem like a very long) three years. Also, if you do sit on the Police and Fire Board you should be ashamed of yourself for voting yourself a raise while police and fire go for years without a contract. They need that raise to help support their families which you seem to care nothing about. Those two Departments provide the most valuable service the city has to offer and they are treated like poltical pawns in a chess game that you will lose. If you don't sit on the board you should do more (anything) to help the people you represent because if more city workers get laid off, they will end up moving out of the city or losing their homes and you probably won't like who moves in next door.
Oh no! 115th and Western has had numerous projects planned there.
Everytime is it election time Ginger comes up with a new project for the area.
1. A ice rink was proposed....election came and went and the lot stayed empty.
2. A new election, a new project. She proposed a office building that would support some CPS functions.....election came and went and the lot stayed empty.
3. Latest election. Giger stated there is going to be a indoor soccer facility built there.....election come and goes anf the lot is still vacant.
Finally after years of the grocery store being vacant some CPS offices where moved in there, but guess what? No taxes come from that facility since the CPS does not pay property taxes. WE PAY FOR IT.
The only reason I believe 111th & Kedzie will move forward is because the person in Walgreens that I spoke with is a friend who works in Walgreens real estate department. They have plans for the closing of this store already with the grand opening set for Sept/Oct 09.
Mount Greenwood is one of four proposed Starbucks locations in the Chicago area that Dunkin' Donuts is considering building drive-through stores where the Seattle-based coffee chain had planned to open outposts of its own.
In July Starbucks announced that it would closed 18 Chicago-area outlets, likely killing any plans for its proposed location at the northwest corner of 111th Street and Kedzie Avenue, where a redevelopment project that includes a new Walgreens store has been held up for months.
In the fast-food breakfast and coffee business, Dunkin' Brands Inc. (which has about 500 stores in the Chciago area) is moving ahead with aggressive plans to compete head to head with both McDonald's Corp. and Starbucks.
Crain's Chicago Business has reported that Dunkin' Donuts is negotiating a deal for the site at 3200 W. 111th St., where Starbucks had been planning to build a store of its own.
Also, Ginger approved building a new, unnessary library. There is a beautiful library at 95th & Hamilton and a huge Borders 1/2 block from there. What a waste?
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