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Big Vision for the Lakeside Site

April 11, 2012

Extending Lakeshore Drive for two miles through the 600-acre Lakeside Development site is more than road work: It’s the key that'll unlock the enormous development potential of the waterfront property where McCaffery Interests and partner US Steel aim to build. (It's the most meaningful two miles since Daytona.)

Retail developers watch U of C's 'if you build it...' gamble

February 4, 2012

From his perch in the Hyde Park Bank building near the corner of 53rd Street and Lake Park Avenue, bank President Tim Goodsell has watched countless efforts at commercialization come and go. “I've been sitting on this street since 1982,” Mr. Goodsell says, “and I've been involved in any number of aborted attempts to get commercial business ginned up here more aggressively. Frankly, I'd gotten to the point that I didn't think much was likely to happen given the economic doldrums.”

Akira coming to Hyde Park

January 27, 2012

Akira, a rapidly expanding Chicago-based clothing boutique, will open its 19th location, I've learned, in a vacated Borders bookstore in Hyde Park this fall.

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Big Vision for the Lakeside Site

Big Vision for the Lakeside Site

Retail developers watch U of C's 'if you build it...' gamble

Retail developers watch U of C's 'if you build it...' gamble

Akira coming to Hyde Park

Akira coming to Hyde Park

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