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The Community Engagement Challenge of Invest South/West

by Jonathan Dale July 22, 2021July 22, 2021

n a lively and contentious Auburn Gresham virtual town hall meeting on June 8, the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) ran an exercise to make a map. The exercise was to gauge community-backed uses for 838 W. 79th St., a vacant City-owned lot located a block west of Halsted on 79th and Green St., […]

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