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Chicago’s acting planning commissioner vows to “get more shovels in the ground and more ribbons cut”

Ciere Boatright says she will use tax increment financing, the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund and what she called the “entire financial toolbox” to remove roadblocks she encountered as a real estate executive known for her work on community revival.

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Mayor Johnson names real estate pro Ciere Boatright to lead planning department

With a history of supporting neighborhood improvement, Boatright will take on the task of backing downtown development while directing dollars toward the South and West sides.

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Mayor’s team will scrap INVEST South/West name, but not its aims

Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s business development program on the South and West sides, under review, will be rebranded, a top Brandon Johnson aide said.

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Former top planner Maurice Cox is right: Redevelop parking lots at White Sox stadium

To allow Guaranteed Rate Field to remain surrounded by 70 acres of surface parking is a waste, from both a fan experience and an urban planning standpoint.

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As he steps down, Chicago’s top planner reflects on neighborhood projects and an unfinished agenda

Coming into the job four years ago as an appointee of former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Maurice Cox sometimes rankled developers by pushing for better architecture and community benefits.

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Winner picked for Pershing Road project; plans would reinvent an industrial colossus

City planning officials have agreed to work with IBT Group on redeveloping properties that are part of the Central Manufacturing District.

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Mayor Johnson is behind the curve in naming top leaders for key city departments

As he marks his first 100 days in office, Johnson has yet to give the public a sign of who he may choose to fill vacant top posts at planning, transportation, housing and public health.

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City’s Planning and Development Commissioner Maurice Cox steps down

Cox, tapped to lead the former Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Invest South/West initiative, is the third star of her Cabinet to leave Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration.

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City releases new renderings showing ‘evolved’ Bally’s casino design

Architecture critic Lee Bey asks: Do the changes give Chicago a winning hand?

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City development agency backs housing plan for 63rd Street in Woodlawn

The plan would mix subsidized and market-rate homes on a commercial street plagued by vacant lots.

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Developers make pitches for La Salle Street subsidies

Six competing teams that want to add housing to important buildings want $388 million in tax increment financing but not all will get help.

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City and community seek new life for historic former industrial park

The Central Manufacturing District has been largely uninhabited in recent decades, leaving many of these important buildings unused — and unprotected.

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Despite protests, Damen Silos sold by state to controversial buyer

Community groups, preservationists and environmentalists had asked Pritzker to halt the sale and requested that the city intervene.

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City invites ideas for West Garfield Park, Roseland properties

The plan borrows an approach used to focus developers’ attention on other neighborhoods while adding a financial incentive,

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City’s latest plan to rebuild South and West sides is admirable, but don’t forget the big picture

Promoting more housing options is a good move, but the public infrastructure that makes a city attractive — good schools, dependable public transit, a solution to crime — is also needed.

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‘Come Home,’ Chicago says, in bid to bring people back to city via program to develop thousands of vacant lots

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan is to spur “in-fill development” on 5,600 city-owned vacant lots in Invest South/West communities to stop Brown and Black families from leaving Chicago.

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Public money powers manufacturing incubator mHUB’s growth

MHUB plans to move to the Kinzie Industrial Corridor on the Near West Side with $17.6 million in tax increment financing and another $9.6 million from the state.

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Red Line extension needlessly caught in the switches due to CTA/City Council beef

If there’s any chance at all to rebuild and repopulate the Far South Side, the Red Line extension is key — and far too important to be caught in a standoff between the CTA president and the City Council.

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City Council member wants to compel regular testimony from CTA president

The Transportation Committee has repeatedly summoned transit agency leader Dorval Carter Jr., but he has ignored them, sending underlings instead.

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West Town deal takes warehouse to another level

With truck access on two floors, the project near Goose Island promises to combine efficiency with artwork.

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2,200 housing units near casino site get plan commission’s OK

The long-term proposal would bring investment to an area of small commercial buildings just west of the Chicago Tribune site.

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Planning commissioner gets an earful about Lightfoot’s plan to create second transit TIF to bankroll Red Line South extension

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is pushing for a final City Council vote on her financing plan before Dec. 31 to meet the requirement for federal matching funds. But it could be a rough ride, judging from the earful Planning and Development Commissioner Maurice Cox got about the project while testifying at…

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Lightfoot pushes back on claim that Invest South/West more talk than action

The mayor spoke at the groundbreaking for Englewood Connect, a culinary hub being built in a landmark firehouse — a building that “refused to be demolished,” said Planning and Development Commissioner Maurice Cox.

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Chicago rolls out plan to revive financial district in wake of pandemic

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled a plan Monday to revive the LaSalle Street corridor, a key downtown office district that suffered the double whammy of COVID-19 and the loss of several large firms to new towers rising farther west along Wacker Drive and in Fulton Market.

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City solicits proposals for La Salle Street renewal

The Lightfoot administration is offering tax incentives to developers who want to change the “monoculture” of office buildings by converting some to residential use.

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