LeClaire Courts’ long-delayed reconstruction may finally get started as CHA board gives the go-ahead
Youngsters stand outside LeClaire Courts at 45th Street and Lamon Avenue on Oct. 27, 1970, in Chicago. It first opened in 1950 as an integrated, suburban-style community of two-story row houses.
Commissioners approved a $27 million infrastructure agreement with the city to help reconstruct LeClaire Courts’ water mains and streets, and a ground lease for co-developers The Habitat Co. and Cabrera Capital, who will construct two six-story buildings with 183 total apartments, including 86 for the CHA, another 79 at affordable rents, and the rest market-rate.The Habitat Co.
“For far too long, for generations, public housing and affordable housing have been put on the other side of the tracks and bled to death,” he said. “Right now, this area is a food desert, and a health care desert, so we’re bringing in what the whole community wants.”“We’ve seen enough neighborhoods in the city of Chicago without grocery stores, and that’s something we’ve been working on in North Lawndale as well,” said Commissioner Luis Gutierrez.
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