Mt. Greenwood Local Redevelopment Corporation

Did anyone know that this corporation actually existed???? Here is the link and it will be posted under the links list to the left of the page.

www.mglrc.com

You can find out general information regarding redevelopment in Mt. Greenwood.

Walgreens revisited

From City of Chicago website - October 2008

Mayor Richard M. Daley introduced a plan to City Council today to redevelop the northwest corner of 111th Street and Kedzie Avenue, the center of the Mount Greenwood neighborhood business district, into a new two-acre shopping plaza. "Encouraging private investment in our communities is a key component of our redevelopment efforts," said Mayor Daley. "This project brings with it jobs, new retail opportunities and beautification efforts, all of which will benefit the community and its residents."

The $10.9 million project will redevelop the site with a new retail center, anchored by an 18,000-square-foot Walgreen's store, a 70-space landscaped parking lot and a 3,700-square-foot corner landscaped plaza with benches and signage that will identify the Mount Greenwood community.

The City will assist the development by contributing a 13,000-square-foot surface parking lot in the middle of the site and $1.5 million in Tax Increment Financing (TIF) assistance.

New Poll

Well 60655 has spoken and the major concern is police presence - it received 51% of the vote followed by the Walgreens' project.

From what I hear, Walgreens will be rebuilt, but in the same location as it is now. There has been some kind of fight regarding sewers having to be rebuilt. I don't know if we are getting the pretty little strip mall with the park (like in the pictures). Starbucks is a distant memory. Fingers crossed for Dunkin Donuts. Saw on another blog in the area that Beverly is getting a Fat Burger (franchise)...supposedly partially owned by Kanye West. How come it takes years to get anything built or opened over here, but in a snap of the fingers there is something opening in Beverly. (I am currently shaking my head as I type this). I vote for a potbelly or chipotle.

Corner of 111th and Kedzie looks like crap. The building on 111th and Pulaski either needs to be cleaned up and repainted or torn down...looks like crap.

Anyway, enough of my opinions, new poll is "what are you going to do with your tax return" (if you get one).

RUMOR has it...

Beverly and Mt. Greenwood are in the spotlight for the DUI Task Force TONIGHT,
January 23.

Consider yourself warned.

Open Post!

Every week I will put an open post up. Please use this post's comment section to ask questions of others, post miscellaneous comments, etc.

Figure this will keep specific post topics dedicated to those topics only.

Thanks!

Sweet Escapes!

Sweet Escapes has opened and is located at 10402 S. Kedzie Ave. They are open breakfast at 7am. They also serve grilled sandwiches, deli sandwiches, homemade soups and chili, and cupcakes!
Stop in and support our local businesses (plus something sweet NEVER hurts!)

***update****773-298-8940 www.sweetescapeschicago.com

GRAND OPENING February 14Th, 2009 11-6pm. Children's activities, specials and door prizes.

The Beverly Blog

For all of you out there from Bevelry, someone has started a Bevelry Blog. Here is the site and it also listed under Misc. links.

http://www.thebeverlyblog.blogspot.com/