Chicago trying to spur redevelopment of key commercial corridors
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file Maurice Cox is a planning commissioner with a plan. If it works, and early returns are promising, he’ll be making headway against one of Chicago’s most intractable economic problems. It’s how do you get investors, developers and contractors interested in working in low-income neighborhoods where the long cycle of disinvestment still rules? And a corollary: How do you get Black and Brown people involved to prove that when construction starts, it’s not some gentrification plot? Cox is the commissioner of planning and development for Mayor Lori Lightfoot. A...
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