The Lakefront site bounded by 40th Street on the North, Lake Park Avenue on the West, 42nd Place on the South, and the Metra train tracks on the East.

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Resident Leadership

Public housing residents are represented by a strong leadership headed by the development’s Local Advisory Council (LAC). This council is synonymous with a tenant association and is headed by an LAC president who is part of the Central Advisory Council, the governing body of the LAC.

Lakefront Homes LAC President	Mary Wiggins
Mailing Address	243 E. 32nd Street Chicago, IL 60616
Phone	(312) 328-6670

History

The CHA’s Lakefront properties formerly contained four high-rise buildings with a total of 604 units. Though the buildings were pedestrian in structure, they offered a majestic, unobstructed view of Lake Michigan. After years of neglect and decay, several of these buildings were demolished in 1999, and the remaining two buildings were rehabilitated as mixed-income housing and renamed Lake Parc Place.

The stark high-rises of the former Lakefront Properties were an anomaly amidst the grand architecture of the surrounding North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood. The community is still sprinkled with stately town homes and elegant mansions that offer a glimpse into a bygone era when North Kenwood-Oakland was a destination for the city’s affluent. Today, this neighborhood is experiencing redevelopment resurgence, with the CHA’s former Lakefront property positioned as the leader in this redevelopment movement. The CHA has worked diligently with local neighborhood organizations to ensure that the design of the new Lakefront site would correspond with the aesthetics of the surrounding neighborhood.

Existing Conditions

With the exception of the two recently refurbished residential towers, the former 16.5-acre Lakefront site is vacant and awaiting redevelopment. The CHA families, who once lived in the residential buildings that have been demolished over the years, have been relocated throughout the city of Chicago’s private housing market and to the CHA’s scattered site apartments within the surrounding neighborhood.

Plan for Transformation: Mixed-Income Redevelopment

The units that will replace those that were demolished at the former Lakefront site will be provided through the construction of new mixed-income and scattered site housing. The two new mixed-income communities – Lake Park Crescent and Jazz on the Boulevard – are profiled below:

Lake Park Crescent

Lake Park Crescent will offer a mosaic of distinctive housing types, featuring masonry, set-backs and other design features that capture the architectural heritage of the surrounding North Kenwood-Oakland area. Construction will begin in the spring of 2003, and this community will rise on the site where the former Lakefront Homes high-rises were demolished. A total of 490 rental and for-sale units will be built in three phases. The breakdown of those units is reflected on the chart below.

Draper & Kramer was selected in 1999 to redevelop this site.

Drexel Boulevard (Jazz on the Boulevard)

Jazz on the Boulevard will provide replacement housing for Lakefront residents in another mixed-income environment. Located only a few blocks from the former Lakefront site, a total of 137 units will be built at this site. Construction on this condominium development will begin in 2003. The breakdown on these units is reflected in the chart below.

 

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