Curbed Cup 1st round: (6) Bronzeville vs. (11) Edgewater
Edgewater is the key to so much. The better Edgewater develops, the greater Rogers Park and Uptown are impacted. Edgewater (including Andersonville) leads the way right now. And rightly or wrongly, Edgewater pulls the others forward.
The Curbed Cup is coming! Vote for 2017’s Chicago neighborhood of the year
Gold Coast, obviously. As shown in the Shutterstock cover image…
PSA: Nowhere in this competition does it clarify that we’re supposed to select up-n-coming neighborhoods. I agree that Uptown, Avondale, Logan Square, and Woodlawn are all up-n-coming neighborhoods that have potential to be enjoyable places to live or raise a family.
But get real here…this is asking for the best we have and "why this particular neighborhood matters right now"!
The Gold Coast is the tourist capital of Chicago. Ask yourself why that is? Because it’s the best neighborhood to showcase to outsiders. Now ask yourself why THAT is? Because it has the best restaurants, the best shopping, the best views, and the best beaches, and the best location, so naturally that’s where developers put the best hotels and why many of the most successful people in the city live there. Why does the Gold Coast have the most expensive real estate? Because it contains the most valuable urban environment in the entire city/midwest region, and is undoubtedly one of America’s Top 10 urban neighborhoods.
The Curbed Cup is coming! Vote for 2017’s Chicago neighborhood of the year
It’s uptowns turn again. The Wilson ‘L’ construction has "finished", and there’s many developments in either full swing or late planning. The Cuneo/Maryville Hospital has finally been demolished and it’s successor is many stories up. The neighborhood rallies when there’s a problem, like when the Profiles Thester closed. It was quickly reopened as the Pride Arts Center and is again a great asset to the area. The physically crumbling LSD overpasses at Wilson and Lawrence are being repaired, albeit not a full reconstruction. The long-empty lot north of Montrose is being infilled with a new development that is using actual reclaimed brick for its facade, not just veneer brick either. Lastly, the George Maher House on Sheridan has been sold and will be renovated, along with renovations and reuse of both the former Menominee Club at Burns and Clarendon and the former Graeme School. C’mon Uptown!!
The Curbed Cup is coming! Vote for 2017’s Chicago neighborhood of the year
UPTOWN: So much investment in the neighborhood this year from the opening of the Wilson purple/redline, beginning construction on the Wilson / Lawrence viaducts, the Broadway streetscaping, 811 Uptown on the rise, etc.
Mixed-use, mixed-income development officially breaks ground in Chicago’s Rogers Park
I’ve lived in Edgewater for years.
20% at most. Edgewater is about to get hit with that new O’Hare runway in 2020. Edgewater and everything west is going to be known as the Airplane Alley of Chicago. People will moveout and go to Uptown or any other neighborhood where the noise isn’t SO LOUD. ALLTHETIME. 24 HOURS A DAY — all caps because that’s how loud the airplanes are now.
Go ahead and add 60% affordable to an area that already has an excess of affordable housing and watch it sink again.
Mixed-use, mixed-income development officially breaks ground in Chicago’s Rogers Park
The obvious fact you ignore in using South Shore as an analogy is its geography and economics. As north side neighborhoods, Edgewater and Rogers Park are filling up young professionals who got priced out of Uptown and Lakeview, which are full of wealthier professionals who got priced out of Lincoln Park and River North. Woodlawn is just now starting to feel this effect from Hyde Park, but South Shore has none of it.