In our “Empty in Evanston” series, Patch looks at vacant properties around town. Today, we focus on the southeast corner of Chicago and Main, where city officials are proposing a new TIF district.
City officials recently held the first public hearing for a proposed tax-increment financing (TIF) district at Chicago Avenue and Main Street. The district was created in part to spur development on the vacant plot of land at the southeast corner of the intersection, where a developer plans to construct a mixed-use office and residential building. As proposed, the TIF district incorporates a stretch of Chicago Avenue from Dempster to Oakton street, as well as parts of Main Street east and west of the intersection with Chicago. Just south of the district is the new, 214-unit luxury apartment complex going up at 737 Chicago Ave. According to city documents, officials have proposed a budget of $25 million over 23 years for the TIF district…
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Evanston residents met with property developers and city officials to discuss a proposed nine-story office and retail building that would be built on the southeast corner of the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Main Street.
The lot on the southeast corner of the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Main Street has sat vacant for almost four years, but may soon be the site of a new nine-story, mixed-use retail and office building. The proposed building and its potential effects on the surrounding neighborhood were the focuses of a community meeting held Thursday night at Lincoln Elementary School, 910 Forest Ave. The assembly opened up the property’s owner, architect and leasing agent to the questions, concerns, and complaints of about 80 Evanston residents in attendance. Designs on display at the meeting showed a basement level employee parking lot, a first floor with two storefronts and a building lobby, three levels of public parking and five stories of …
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Marci
9:45 pm on Monday, March 18, 2013
Why not one of the three theaters/arts district spaces that the City of Evanston is proposing for the downtown area? Why not put an additional theater space in South Evanston instead of three downtown? I personally like the added green space, but I know that won't last forever. You can't tax green space. A few smaller shops or restaurant spaces like the old White Hen, etc. would be ideal too. Not… more ›