Garfield Park Retail and Real Estate
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Development Without Gentrification: Garfield Green Housing Plan Aims To Spur Growth, Maintain Affordability On West Side
- Pascal Sabino, Block Club Chicago, Aug 19, 2020
- Historically, transit-oriented development has been centered in more affluent areas. A new plan for…
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West Side Market Returns Outdoors Amidst Pandemic
- Mariah McBride, The Real Chi, Jul 23, 2020
- Despite the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, The Garfield Park Neighborhood Market has officially…
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Matching transit to economic need
- Roberto Requejo, Crain's Chicago Business, Jun 4, 2020
- We have a new way to develop all neighborhoods without displacing people: equitable…
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A model to prevent a wave of evictions in the wake of coronavirus recession
- Curtis Black, The Chicago Reporter, May 13, 2020
- A new coalition in East Garfield Park is aiming to head off displacement, gentrification and a land…
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Coronavirus Across Chicago: East Garfield Park
- Paris Schutz, WTTW News, Apr 1, 2020
- All Chicago neighborhoods have been hit hard by shutdowns related to the coronavirus, but…
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With East Garfield Park Ripe For Gentrification, Residents Draw Up Blueprint To Protect Themselves
- Pascal Sabino, Blockclub Chicago, Mar 16, 2020
- The community-driven plan was created over the past year in response to rising rents and new…
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Three Ideas Could Shift Housing from Outputs to Outcomes
- Kimberly Burrowes, Housing Matters, Jan 22, 2020
- In October, the Urban Institute challenged attendees at the Foundations for the Future of Housing…
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Using Data to Inform Community-Driven Decision Making in East Garfield Park
- Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University, Oct 31, 2019
- A critical component of the Institute for Housing Studies’ (IHS) applied research model…
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City Wants To Fix Dangerous West Side Streets By Adding Bike Lanes, Pedestrian Islands And More With $6 Million Infrastructure Plan
- Pascal Sabino, Sep 16, 2019
- GARFIELD PARK — Some of the most dangerous streets in the city for deadly crashes are on the…
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Affordable housing developer tapped for East Garfield Park project
- Danny Ecker, Crain's Chicago Business, May 16, 2019
- The firm Preservation of Affordable Housing plans a $22.3 million environmentally friendly…
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Hatching New Businesses: How Accion & The Hatchery are Supporting Entrepreneurship
- Kevin Beerman, Chicago Ideas Blog, May 16, 2019
- EAST GARFIELD PARK — A few years back, Accion Serving Illinois and Indiana, a nonprofit…
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Cooking Up New Businesses in The Hatchery
- Brad McConnell, CEO of Accion Serving Illinois and Indiana, for The Aspen Institute, Apr 10, 2019
- While headlines tout a booming economy and low unemployment, many parts of the country still have…
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Researchers launch plan to cut Chicago death gap in half by 2030
- Dan Williams, CGTN America, Apr 2, 2019
- The sprawling West Side area of Chicago is just a few miles away from the city’s downtown.…
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The Hatchery’s Packed Valentine’s Market Proves ‘There Is A Lot Of Buying Power On The West Side’
- Sarah Conway, Block Club Chicago, Feb 14, 2019
- Of the 32 vendors at the market, 80 percent are West Side entrepreneurs. And lots of the small…
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Leaders do post-mortem on Hatchery's outreach efforts
- Igor Studenkov, Austin Weekly News, Feb 13, 2019
- During Jan. 24 City Bureau event, experts dissected what went right, wrong with The Hatchery's…
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Chicago Neighborhoods Front and Center at Forum for Mayoral Candidates
- Linda Lutton, WBEZ, Jan 13, 2019
- Hundreds of Chicagoans from Belmont Cragin to the southeast side packed an auditorium at the…
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More than 1,000 people pack UIC's mayoral candidate forum focused on improving all Chicago neighborhoods
- Bill Ruthart, Chicago Tribune, Jan 12, 2019
- A standing-room-only crowd of more than 1,000 people packed the University of Illinois at Chicago…
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New food and beverage incubator opens in Garfield Park
- Jessica D'Onofrio, ABC7, Dec 6, 2018
- One of the largest food incubation spaces in the country is open for business in the East Garfield…
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The Collateral Damage of $1 Vacant Lots
- Nona Tepper, Chicago Mag, Nov 20, 2018
- Chicago’s Large Lots Program seems like a good idea. But the reality has been complicated.
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Harnessing the Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
- Robin Lee Greiner, Harvard Business School, Mar 28, 2018
- We all know that small business is the growth engine of any economy. This is even more true for…
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Chicago Tribune - Residents Get Behind $1 City Lot Program
- Jan 7, 2015
- GPCC Executive Director Mike Tomas talks about the success of the Large Lots Program in East…
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East Garfield Park $1 Lot Program Begins July 1 2014
- Jul 1, 2014
- $1 Lot Program begins July 1 in East Garfield Park.
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City's vacant adjacent lot purchase program coming to Garfield Park
- May 6, 2014
- The City of Chicago talks about the success of its pilot program to sell vacant lots for $1 to…
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Chicago Artists Month: October 25-27, 2013
- Sep 18, 2013
- Chicago Artist Month: October 2013
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What started as one Garfield Park garden blooms into so much more
- BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter for the Chicago Suntimes, Aug 20, 2013
- What started as one Garfield Park garden blooms into so much more
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