Housing Opportunity 2014 - Transformative Placemaking for Neighborhoods, Housing and Health, Marisa Novara

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Transformative Place Making for

Neighborhoods, Housing, and Health

Marisa Novara

May 15, 2014


Immediate and long-term solutions

Connect region’s assets

Partnerships with governments,

communities and business





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Housing costs out of control

Cook 28%

DuPage 21%

Kane 26%

Lake 25%

McHenry 26%

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Equitable Transit Oriented Development

Three-pronged approach:

• Dedicated TOD funding

• Legislative improvements

• Hands-on work in communities


Corridor Development Initiative

A series of

interactive,

public

workshops

designed to plan

proactively in the

context of

market realities.


Criteria for CDI site selection

• Access to transit / new transit investments

(Ashland BRT, 95th Street Station)

• Interest from developers and new construction

planned or under consideration nearby

• Vacant and preferably publicly owned land

• Interest from City Hall, aldermen, community

groups and other engaged actors

• Affordability needed


Potential Corridor Development Initiative sites

Goal: Equitable

transit-oriented

development

Uptown (Wilson)

Logan Sq

Ashland Ave/

Roosevelt Sq

Bronzeville

(35th or 47th)


UPTOWN 2014 CDI



Three Meetings

• Thursday, May 8: Setting the stage

– Overview of existing conditions

– Group discussions on community needs and goals

• Monday, May 12: Block exercise

– Creation of hypothetical options for development

sites, including design and financial characteristics

• Thursday, May 29: Developer forum

– Response from three development experts about

community proposals


First meeting: stage setting

• We will discuss the future of Uptown, with a

specific focus on two adjacent areas:

1. The former Stewart School and parking lot.

2. The land paralleling the Wilson Station.


Stewart School

• 107-year-old Stewart School closed in 2013.

• CPS will be seeking development proposals for

the building and adjacent parking lot.

• A range of uses

is possible.



Wilson Station Sites

• CTA plans to invest $200 million in the renovation of the Wilson Station, and will add a Purple Line stop there.

• As part of the renovations, land will be freed up east and west of the

tracks.

• This space could be

used for new

transit-oriented

development.




Second Meeting: Block exercise





Third Meeting: Developer forum


Marisa Novara

[email protected]

www.metroplanning.org/cdi

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http://www.metroplanning.org/cdi

Real Estate

Housing Opportunity 2014 - Transformative Placemaking for Neighborhoods, Housing and Health, Marisa Novara