Today’s Headlines for Thursday, September 8

  • Vista, Chicago’s 3rd-Tallest Building Officially Breaks Ground (Curbed)
  • Concerned About Gas Prices, Public & Commercial Fleets Explore Alternatives (Tribune)
  • O’Hare Bound Blue Line Trains Won’t Stop at Harlem for Two Weeks (DNA)
  • $1.5M Metra Rail Tie Replacement Project Starts in Hinsdale Saturday (Patch)
  • 35-Year-Old Man Critically Injured After Crashing Car Into Building on NW Side (Tribune)
  • Ramirez-Rosa Is Combining Several Residential Parking Zones in the 35th Ward (DNA)
  • Ravinia-esque Music Venue Proposed for Douglas Park (DNA)
  • Lots of Events on the Lakefront Trail This Month (Active Trans)
  • David Barish Tells a Story About Being Doored This Sunday at “That’s All She Wrote“
  • CTA Hearing on Proposed Transit TIF for RPM Next Tuesday at DePaul (Active Trans)
  • Chicago Perimeter Ride Leaves From Buckingham Fountain on 10/1 at 9 AM

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What makes a building walkable? Or rather, what kind of buildings make a city walkable? David Barboza at Network blog Straight Outta Suburbia has been giving the matter some thought. He lays out his letter grade system for retail buildings in a recent post: An “A” building has to comply with the following rules: The building is placed […]
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Cincinnati Preservation Board Says Historic Building Needs More Parking

By Angie Schmitt |
An office developer wants to rehab a derelict 88,000-square-foot historic building right along Cincinnati’s almost-finished streetcar line. This is exactly what should happen, right? Except the agency charged with protecting the city’s historic structures might actually sink the project. Guess why? Parking, of course! John Yung at Urban Cincy reports: An Over-the-Rhine development has hit a potential challenge after a 3-3 […]

44-Unit TOD Building Proposed at an Abandoned Drive-Through in Bucktown

By Steven Vance |
A proposal for a transit-oriented development in Bucktown is going before the Chicago Plan Commission for approval this Thursday. River North-based developer Vequity wants to build a six-story residential tower with minimal parking at the southeast corner of Milwaukee and Western avenues in Bucktown, right next door to the Western stop on the Blue Line’s O’Hare branch. Vequity needs the Plan Commission to approve a […]