Development

Maurice D. Cox is Mayor Lori Lightfoot's nominee to head up Chicago's Department of Planning and Development as its Commissioner. 

UPDATE: Lightfoot asked Finance Committee Chairman Patrick O'Connor to make Monday's meeting a "subject matter hearing" which generally excludes a vote, according to Crain's Danny Ecker around midnight Sunday.

There is a full court press to pass the $1.3* billion Cortland and Chicago River TIF at Monday's City Council Finance Committee vote and the City Council vote on Wednesday, Mayor Emanuel's last Council meeting before leaving his eight year, fifth floor reign of Chicago's City Hall. 

"A $400 million footnote in the Lincoln Yards plan is for interest," Randy Jacobson, an architect, pointed out at a #DelayTheVote* Tuesday press conference, as he outlined the top issues that individuals and groups feel are deal breakers for having the $6 billion, 52-acre Sterling Bay Lincoln Yards Project on the Chicago Plan Commission's Thursday agenda. 

In advance of Sterling Bay's Nov. 29, 6 p.m. Lincoln Yards update meeting at 1001 N. Crosby St. in the Park Community Church Renew Chicago auditorium,

Targeting 24 blocks around Norwegian American Hospital (NAH) in Humboldt Park, a new vision for a development and wellness project will be presented to the community at two different presentations next week.

What started in April 2015 as a rehab of a church complex, dating back to 1905, and ended in a pile of rubble in October 2016 has been approved to rise again after the Wicker Park Committee (WPC) membership gave a thumbs up

Four condominiums and four duplex units are being proposed by John Conrad Schiess, architect, on behalf of property owner Igor Blumin, Vice President of Interforum, at the Wednesday Wicker Park Committee (WPC) meeting in the Wicker Park Field House, 1425 N. Damen, Wed., May 3, at 7 p.m.

A request for support of a five-story 32-unit residential/retail project requiring a jump in zoning from a M1-2 to B3-5* at 1665 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Rob Buono, Henry Street Partners, introduced his proposed 1220 Bosworth condo project, a land parcel 10,000 feel short of an acre, at a public meeting in Near North Montessori, 1434 W. Division, Wed., Aug. 10, evening.