{"id":48602,"date":"2017-01-30T13:16:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T19:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=48602"},"modified":"2017-01-30T13:16:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T19:16:47","slug":"uptown-luxury-development-faces-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/uptown-luxury-development-faces-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Uptown luxury development faces challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Holly Kane<\/strong><\/p>\n

A $15.8 million TIF to fund a luxury housing development in Uptown will provide $5.7 million for low-income housing, but it is unclear where that housing will be.<\/p>\n

The 26-story Clarendon-Montrose development will feature 381 rental units and a 30,000-square-foot Treasure Island Foods grocery store with 5 percent affordable units. Construction is set to start early February, with full occupancy reached by December 2018.<\/p>\n

Ald. James Cappleman, the 46th Ward, said he thinks the affordable housing will come to his ward because of its high population of homeless people compared with surrounding North Side neighborhoods. The homeless population of Uptown makes up 9 percent of all of Chicago\u2019s homeless, according to a 2016 report by the city, compared with neighboring Edgewater, which has less than 1 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow much low-income housing do you have?\u201d Cappleman said. \u201cBecause the 46th Ward has a healthy amount.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Developer Harlem Irving Companies opted to contribute $5.7 million to the Chicago Low-Income Housing Trust Fund instead of including the required 10 percent affordable units. The city\u2019s Affordable Requirements Ordinance requires new residential developments to include at least 20 percent affordable units or pay a $100,000-per unit fee-in-lieu to the trust.<\/p>\n

Market-rate unit rents will range from $1,688 per month for studios to $2,637 per month for two-bedroom units, according to development plans filed with the city. Low-income unit rents will range from $636 per month for a studio to $980 per month for a two-bedroom unit. There are seven studios at low-income rates and 123 at market rates.<\/p>\n

A number of community organizations oppose the development, including the Preston Bradley Center, which houses a 72-bed homeless shelter Ald. Cappleman claimed to have saved from closing in December. Executive director Jean Darling does not remember it that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t his doing at all,\u201d Darling said. \u201cIt was pressure from the community.”<\/p>\n

Darling worries the development will displace the residents her organization tries to help.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a real tension around this stuff,\u201d Darling said. \u201cWe\u2019ve lost a number of parishioners who couldn\u2019t find a place to live. It just goes against the ethos of the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 40 residents attended a construction meeting Thursday at the Clarendon Park Community Center where Jim Snyder, president of construction for Harlem Irving, answered questions about noise levels and sidewalk closings.<\/p>\n

Ryne Poelker, 26, an activist with Northside Action for Justice and Uptown Tent City, noticed no questions were raised about the potential displacement of the neighborhood\u2019s homeless and low-income residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis meeting went pretty typically,\u201d Poelker said, adding attendees were \u201cNinety percent white.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not very representative of our neighborhood,” he said.<\/p>\n

When questioned after the meeting, Cappleman said residents will not be displaced because, even though the housing fund is not designated for a specific part of the city, Uptown will receive housing because it has the most homeless people.<\/p>\n

Surrounding wards \u2013 like that of Ald. Ameya Pawar, the 47th Ward,\u00a0 who voted against the TIF on the grounds of the lack of affordable housing in the development \u2013 do not contribute to the homelessness crisis, he said.<\/p>\n

Cappleman said: \u201cWhen you\u2019re talking about homelessness, all wards need to help out. And they\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: The\u00a0 Montrose-Clarendon development undergoes demolition in Uptown. (Holly Kane\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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