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Reporting
Edited and summarized by the Chicago - IL Documenters Team
on behalf of @CHIdocumenters @city_bureau
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Acquiring vacant land to include 140k sq/ft recreation area - Invest South West has been a long-time advocate for the project
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Ald Cox - Acknowledges how they worked with the staff about issues of how the building meets the ground floor covered plaza. Not all teams are open to these creative collabs
Features 80% waste diversion and exceeds stormwater ordinance by 25%, 10% 10th ward hiring goal, future 20% electric car charging for parking
Ald Susan Sadlowski Garza - "The way they're transforming this is like the Phoenix rising from the ashes." They've helped buy food and medicine for people in the pandemic, an actual part of community
2017. 15 projects, $7.15 billion projected costs
2020. 30 billion estimated project costs, 88k construction jobs, 26% minority owned, 6% women owned, and 50% city resident hiring (all minimums remained consistent the last 4 years)
Cox - "There are many developer firms that are meeting these objectives. We should be polling a larger group of developers, not just the ones who tried to meet it and didn't."
Searl: "Encourage unions to bring on more minorities."
Villegas: He suggests sub committee about challenging capacity of minority and women owned firms in regards to SBA thresholds.
"I was so worried with all of these protests - I thought they'd tear up the construction jobs in these wards."
Comm. Cox - "It's going to take the carrot and the stick . . . I know we can do better, and we have to do better."
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Agency Information
Chicago Plan Commission
The Chicago Plan Commission is responsible for the review of proposals that involve Planned Developments (PDs), the Lakefront Protection Ordinance, Planned Manufacturing Districts (PMDs), Industrial Corridors and Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Districts. It also reviews proposed sales and acquisitions of public land as well as certain long-range community plans.