An updated plan to redevelop Chicago Housing Authority’s 32-acre historic Julia C. Lathrop Homes into a massive mixed-use, mixed-income campus broke cover at a recent meeting of the Chicago Plan Commission.
Last September, the defenseman signed a $55 million, eight-year extension with the Blackhawks, and has since purchased a larger, newly constructed mansion.
To ensure that historic tax credits from the U.S. National Park Service are received for the project, the developers behind the Lathrop Homes redevelopment have dropped two mid-rise buildings at the project’s eastern edge from the plan.
Residents of the Julia C. Lathrop Homes are gearing up for a protest next week against the plan from the Lathrop Community Partners and Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) that will return only 400 of the development’s original 925 public housing units.
According to a letter that was written to the group back in December, but only brought to light just this week, the National Parks Service indicated that the Lathrop Community Partners' application does not meet the Secretary of Interior's standards.
The drab overpass, which almost acts as a divider between the Roscoe Village neighborhood and neighborhoods like Avondale and Logan Square, will not be returning to the intersection.