272 N California LLC will be home to businesses Chicago Printworks (Direction Tour Marketing + Promotion) and Studio inHaus, allowing them to expand their services and increase their staff. The print shop creates printed marketing materials and the CGI studio creates 3D renderings and animations. Both have customers from all over the Chicagoland area. To complete the project, the team rehabbed a 100-year-old gear factory in East Garfield Park. A motivation behind this particular location was providing a transit-accessible option to staff, many of whom do not own a vehicle. The new space will be ready for a ribbon cutting and open house this fall. This ETOD was funded in part by the Chicago Recovery Plan and are also an Elevated Works technical assistance recipient. 272 N California LLC is right next to the #94 California bus, a few blocks away from the California Green Line station and the #49 Western bus. There are several other ETODs in the area, including The K Entrepreneurship Development Hub, Hub32, 548 Energy Institute, and BandWidth Chicago, making 272 N California LLC part of a larger ETOD movement in the area. #ETOD #UrbanPlanning #UrbanDevelopment #GarfieldPark #EastGarfieldPark #Chicago #ChicagoNews
Elevated Chicago ETOD
Public Policy Offices
Chicago, Illinois 1,736 followers
People. Places. Process. For equitable transit-oriented development. @Elevated_Chi.
About us
https://linktr.ee/elevated_chi Elevated Chicago promotes racial equity, prosperity and resiliency in Chicago communities by using equitable transit-oriented development – or ETOD – as the catalyst for change. Led by a collaborative of nonprofit, public and private organizations, Elevated Chicago aims to turn the ½-mile around transit stations into racially equitable centers for climate resiliency, health and culture. Our work is guided by the core principles of adaptability, impact, inclusion, innovation and transparency. By enabling community-driven development, Elevated Chicago will position station areas as civic assets where programming and the built environment converge to create nodes of opportunity and connection across the region’s vast transit system. Our work began around seven Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) or ehubs. But today, ETOD is everywhere in Chicago, and we've expanded from seven eHubs to nearly two dozen Elevated Chicago Plus communities. Our ETOD Working Group helped create the City of Chicago's first ETOD Policy Plan. We've helped to award grants to create 11 ETOD Policy Plan demonstration projects. And our programs that include the Equitable Development Ambassadors, the J.E.D.I. (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) cohort with the Metropolitan Planning Council, and our annual symposium are inviting more and more people to understand and advocate for ETOD. Join us in using ETOD as a significant tool for Chicago's recovery from the crises of 2020.
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https://elevatedchicago.org/
External link for Elevated Chicago ETOD
- Industry
- Public Policy Offices
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2017
- Specialties
- Public Health, Arts and Culture, Climate Resiliency, Equity, Urban Planning, Transit, Public Transit, Development, Equitable Transit-Oriented Development, Green Infrastructure, Community Building, Racial Equity, Affordable Housing, Chicago, Policy, Advocacy, Community Engagement, and Walkability
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Chicago, Illinois 60603, US
Employees at Elevated Chicago ETOD
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Curious about the impact of Chicago Department of Transportation's Bike Chicago program? A report from the Shared-Use Mobility Center found that the program was cost-efficient and led to increased mobility and less driving for many recipients. Learn more at the MacArthur Foundation website: https://lnkd.in/gj3QnX3Q #Biking #Micromobility #Equity #Chicago
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Little Angels Learning Center is an early education center for children ages 6 weeks old to 5 years in #Englewood. They began as a single preschool classroom in 1994 and have been serving the community for 30 years. Thanks to funding from the City and State, Little Angels will be moving into a new 11,500+ square foot space at 6706 S. Emerald Ave., which is across the street from their current location. After years of working out of a shared space, Little Angels is finally getting their own two-level school with a playground and community center. The added space will allow the center to provide more classes and year-round programming to the local community. Little Angels is located next to the Halsted Green Line Station and #8 Halsted bus, making it an equitable transit-oriented development. Learn more about Little Angels Learning Center at https://lnkd.in/gnBsRvEw. You can follow along with the construction updates on Little Angels’ Instagram page @773lalc. #ETOD #Education #Equity #PublicTransit #Chicago #ChicagoNews
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Juan Sebastian reflects on his first 100 days as Executive Director and sets goals for policy change in the latest article on the Elevated Chicago website. #ETOD #Policy #UrbanPlanning #Chicago https://buff.ly/4fKLjfl
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How much do you know about the Cut the Tape initiative? Browsing the 50-person Task Force, you may see some familiar names of ETOD supporters! Learn more about the policy goals and the progress that's been made on the Elevated Chicago blog: https://buff.ly/3SUqPHb #UrbanPlanning #ETOD #Equity #Chicago
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🧅Wild Onion Market is a grocery co-op that opened June 12 in #RogersPark. It is the second co-op in the city after Dill Pickle Co-op, located in Logan Square. This ETOD was funded in part by both Chicago Department of Planning and Development and the State of Illinois. They are also an Elevated Works technical assistance recipient. Wild Onion has 2,000+ co-owners from the local community, with a board of directors chosen by the members. Some members have also gone the extra mile to volunteer their time and efforts to govern and promote the market. The market intentionally features fresh foods from local vendors and farmers. There are bulk grocery options and Co+op Basics generic options as well as a Co+op Explorers program where children can try a free piece of fruit. Community members also have a space to sit and enjoy food at the market. Wild Onion is easily accessible from the #22 Clark bus, Morse Red Line station, and Rogers Park #Metra stop and aims to serve multiple neighborhoods in the area as well as Evanston. Bikers can easily stop by, since there is a bike rack installed by Chicago Department of Transportation. 🧅 #WildOnionMarket #GroceryCoOp #ETOD #EquitableTransitOrientedDevelopment #ChicagoBusiness #ChicagoNews #Chicago
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Juan Sebastian A. weighs in on the #RedLineExtension contract announced in yesterday's Chicago Transit Board meeting in this Chicago Tribune article by Sarah Freishtat. #PublicTransit #Equity #ETOD
CTA Red Line extension price tag jumps as project takes a major step forward
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Elevated Chicago ETOD reposted this
Truly historic! Much respect to the tireless advocacy from all that led to this huge step forward for transit justice and for #ETOD 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 We now have a responsibility to ensure that Far South Side residents benefit equitably from this investment. When the Chicago Transit Authority Red Line reaches these four new stations, we have an opportunity to ensure the neighborhoods nearby are vibrant, walkable hubs of economic activity and community wealth building.
Historic Chicago Transit Authority board meeting today! We authorized a *$2.9 billion* allocation to start the design and construction of the Red Line Extension! This 5.6-mile stretch will serve predominantly Black communities in #Chicago's Far South Side that have been waiting *60+ years* for this. Congrats to the Walsh Construction Ltd - VINCI - SYSTRA - EXP winning team and their minority-owned subcontractors Rudd Resources LLC , 2IM Group, LLC, American Surveying & Engineering, LTD, SE3 (plus more)! This day wouldn't have arrived without decades of community organizing against the injustice of our transit system ending at 95th Street (miles away from our city limits). Abraham Lacy of Far South Community Development Corporation and Rev. Albert Shears did a great job at explaining to our packed boardroom the role of the Developing Communities Project throughout the decades, now carried forward by the Red Line Extension Coalition and many other community organizations. Thanks to Jacky Grimshaw of Center for Neighborhood Technology, Andrea D Reed of GREATER ROSELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE and dozens of residents and advocates who showed up to support. And an obvious but much deserved thank you to CTA President Dorval R. Carter, Jr. and his staff for sticking with this project through so many challenges and getting us to this point. Research shows that each dollar we invest in transit returns up to $5 in other investments, so I am especially excited about the expected $20 billion that this new line can attract and hoping it looks like Equitable Transit-Oriented Development #ETOD (there's already a plan for that) and community wealth (rather than extraction by outside speculators). In a nutshell: what's normal in our Far North Side (transit choices, walkable grocery stores, local businesses, healthcare centers) should be normal in the Far South Side. Let's build these tracks and stations as fast as we can. 🚉 🏗 🏢 U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration City of Chicago Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois (RTA)
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Elevated Chicago ETOD reposted this
Once again, Alden Loury is spot on with his opinion piece in this Sunday's Chicago Sun-Times article. Despite the seemingly never ending obstacles when advocating and requesting resources for communities starved of economic investment, my years of doing this work has been more rewarding than failures. And it also depends on what day you ask me. But to expand on the article a little, these mega developments are channeling through the same conduit as it has before, especially in Black neighborhoods or adjacent Black neighborhoods. We have yet to see a mega development that is lead by a Black-owned development company. More than likely, Black-owned companies are a "write-in" to meet diversity requirements. Several of these deals are made possible primarily because it is supported and secured by government subsidies/incentives to make the project financially feasible. Correct me if I am wrong, I have yet to see one Black-owned development company receive a billion dollars in government subsidies/incentives to leverage and attract other investments to build in Black communities or anywhere else in the city. Instead, we hope that these mega projects will have a trickle-down effect that we could possibly benefit from. Because, it is hard for me to believe that there is not one Black-owned development company in Chicago that can manage a billion dollar fund over a 10 - 15 year span to build up our communities in an equitable way, as we see in other mega project investments. You will never have to worry about meeting diversity requirements. And before I get the backlashing of "what if it fails or is delayed", what's the status of some of our mega projects now??? So, let's give some grace to Black-owned development companies and not write them off before we even give them a chance to prove themselves (ourselves). For the longest time, we have had the label of being a "Tale of Two Cities". I would further argue a subcategory is a "Tale of Two Standards" that we must vigorously work to eradicate for a more equitable and just city. Otherwise, the article brilliantly connects history with some large projects being sold as for us but not lead by us, and ultimately hurts us. ##BringingCommunitiesBackInitiative #BCBI #InvestFarSouth
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Starling is a place designed and developed by Duo/. for community gathering that will be opening in #NorthLawndale this September. This ETOD was funded in part by the Chicago Department of Planning and Development. Outdoors, there will be a garden covered by a terrace. Indoors, there will be a coffee bar and roaster, sound studio, plenty of seating with modular furniture that guests can rearrange, a library area, and natural lighting. The building will be wheelchair accessible from two different entrances, and sliding glass windows will make it a beautiful open-air space in the warmer months. Starling is partnering with Monday Coffee Company and 10 local organizations to provide dynamic programming. North Lawndale residents have been engaged throughout the process, and Starling has intentionally designed the building to meet the needs and aspirations of the surrounding area. This ETOD is located next door to a high school and along a protected bike lane route on 16th Street. The Kedzie Pink Line station is about a 10-minute walk away. Douglass Park is about a 5-to-10-minute walk east. Most importantly, Starling is trialing a new shared ownership model. As the building makes profits, it will be sharing them directly with local residents. This model is meant to share the success of the business with its community, rather than a small number of investors. Stay tuned for Starling’s grand opening this fall! #ETOD #EquitableTransitOrientedDevelopment #ChicagoBusiness #ChicagoNews #Chicago