Block Club Chicago – The megadevelopment, part of the Invest South/West initiative, spans three blocks of 47th Street and has 51 affordable housing units and retail space.
BACK OF THE YARDS — Community leaders and developers celebrated a moment more than four years in the making Thursday with the opening of the New City United Yards commercial and affordable housing development.
The shop opens next month in the Goldblatt’s building. It will carry Back-of-the-Yards-themed accessories, clothing and products. blockclubchicago.org – BACK OF THE YARDS — An online apparel and accessories business is opening its first brick-and-mortar store in the multimillion-dollar United Yards development at West 47th Street and Ashland Avenue. La Selva Shop will open next […]
news.wttw.com – Chicago’s Invest South/West project is underway in the Back of the Yards. It’s part of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s citywide plan aimed at revitalizing underserved communities. A $58 million mixed-use development, known as United Yards, will include retail, a health clinic, brew pub and affordable housing. It took two years of planning before this […]
The Latino-owned business is back with a new storefront in the Goldblatt’s building. It offers packaged and brewed coffee, specialty drinks, baked goods, breakfast tacos and more. blockclubchicago.org – BACK OF THE YARDS — A coffee shop reopened this weekend in Back of the Yards, the first of several businesses opening this spring as part […]
chicago.urbanize.city – Chicago-based general contractor Skender recently started construction on United Yards, a new master-planned affordable housing development in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. The sustainable, three-building project is a joint venture partnership between developers Celadon Partners and Blackwood Group who won the Invest South/West RFP during former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s tenure.
www.wbez.org – Once bookending a thriving commercial corridor but now sitting vacant, plans are underway to turn the structures into apartments with ground-floor retail. A Pair of buildings have faced each other for a century at 47th and Ashland Avenue – during the heyday of the Back of the Yards neightborhood and subsequent downturn – […]
blockclubchicago.org – BACK OF THE YARDS — A vacant lot near 47th Street and Ashland Avenue will be redeveloped into a 50-unit affordable housing building and community hub in Back of the Yards. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Department of Planning and Development on Monday announced United Yards, a proposal from Celadon Partners and Blackwood […]
chicagotribune.com – The city of Chicago announced new mixed-use projects valued at $200 million for South Chicago, North Lawndale, Bronzeville and New City as part of its Invest South/West initiative to spur development in disadvantaged communities. SEE FULL ARTICLE