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Community Meeting: Broadway & Glenlake Walgreen’s Redevelopment

November 30, 2011  /  By

Walgreens 6125 N Broadway. Credit: Lyle Bright

The Edgewater Development Corporation will host a community review meeting tomorrow related to Crossroads Development’s

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  • Robin

    Whatever it will be will be an improvement.

  • Anonymous

    What a shame that Ald. Harry Osterman did not support this plan.

    • Actions Speaklouderthanwords

      Do you get involved?

      • WeWillieWinkleman

        Actually Actions I was heavily involved with community issues for years and I know how it operates.

      • Badresa

        I keep trying to get involved, but they really don’t make it easy for people who work full time to be involved in much of anything. I happen to live in an “ASCO” building, which means I can’t belong to or attend EBNA meetings, and ASCO only has closed meetings with a representative from each building. I signed up for the ECC somewhere, but no one got back to me. I don’t know how else to reach out.

  • Anonymous

    So wait, are they saying they are remodeling the Walgreens at least, it sorely needs a makeover.

    As the old saying goes it’s “politics”. I am sure some money was thrown at him to maintain the Hancock Building.
    Really it’s such an eyesore and too bad the Ald. doesn’t want to bring Edgewater to the 21st Century.

  • Florence

    The opening of the meeting to the world by the EDC is a direct contradiction of

    • Jeremy Bressman

      Florence, that is incorrect.

    • Jon

      Florence, technically the new Walgreens was a remodeling of an old building and parking lot.
      The foot print stayed the same so this is a little different.

  • Anonymous

    What about the cleaners?

  • Jon121

    If the plan was going to really make an impact to the neighborhood they should have been allowed to move forward with knocking down all the old buildings and making a cohesive development. This idea to save all old buildings so we can have mismatching, poor functioning developments is misguided.

    This happened in Lincoln Square on Western Ave and Lawrence when a whole block was slated to be taken down and developed. There were all these protests and now 6 years later all the developers are gone and it looks like a dump. I’m so sick of ignorant, complaining residents that have no idea what they are talking about.

  • Turbo60640

    Who doesn’t want to “save” historically insignificant buildings already marred by ill-conceived, late 1960s renovations (see Hancock Fabrics). Those eyesores combined with Broadways’ countless vacant storefronts make for an attractive retail corridor.

  • anonymous

    I can see preserving historical buildings but what historical impact does that fabric store have? It’s not like it’s classic architecture like a church or a bank or something. Uptown has a lot of historical buildings that are actually gorgeous and I can see preserving things like THAT but a building with a puky brown looking awning is? I really don’t get it.

  • Anonymous

    I happen to feel very relieved that the Alderman is rethinking this venture and that Crossroads is still interested in redeveloping Walgreens.

    Regarding the historical and architectural merits of the Hancock building, I think that’s rather difficult for the public to currently



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