Bluepaint Development News Today

For a moment Tuesday, a verdant but vacant lot on Grant Street sat in silence as the spring showers paused. Yet at the future site of Evanston’s first “pocket neighborhood” of small homes, the quiet may not last for long. The silence belied months of uproar between neighbors and the housing development’s proponents. Weeks after...

City Council decided 8-0 Monday to send a controversial proposal for the city’s first-ever pocket neighborhood back to committee, extending an ongoing conflict between 7th Ward residents and a real estate developer. On March 11, residents will have a chance to present their qualms about developer David Wallach’s plan to build 12 small homes on...