Major Illinois State Grant Is Poised To Bring New Life To Struggling Stretch Of Ashland Avenue In Back Of The Yards

📆 1/12/2022 4:00 PM
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A stretch of Ashland Avenue near 46th Street was once dotted with retail palaces attracting shoppers and money. Now, it is full of boarded-up windows and empty buildings. But as CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot reported Tuesday, a major grant is expected to make a tremendous difference.

— An Illinois state grant means new life for part of the Back of the Yards neighborhood that is well past its glory days.

A former Aronson Furniture showroom and warehouse at 4630 S. Ashland Ave. takes up 1.25 acres – stretching half a city block west all the way to Marshfield Avenue. The goal is to have new retail and affordable housing on that spot.Toni Fonseca owns Ameri-Mex Insurance Agency, 4600 S. Ashland Ave. This month marks the 36th year for her business in the community.“Aronson was here. Zemsky was here. Goldblatt’s,” Fonseca said. “It looks like a ghost town.

“It’s depressing in that it sends the wrong message. There’s no hope. There’s no belief that this was worthy of development and it is,” Chico said. “It’s what the community deserves,” Chico said. “We haven’t had any investment in housing in our community of this magnitude in forever.”

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