Cook County Board Commissioner Bridget Gainer, Cook County Land Bank Authority Executive Director Eleanor Gorski, Commissioner of the City of Chicago Department of Housing Marisa Novara and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and West Woodlawn Pointe developers are about to break ground during the launch of the Buy Back the Block initiative at 6314 S. Evans Ave. in the West Woodlawn neighborhood Tuesday morning. Through the Cook County Land Bank Authority, five developers bought 11 vacant lots on the 6300 block of South Evans Avenue to build West Woodlawn Pointe, which will consist of 11 three-flat residential buildings.
Black developers to build 3-flats in a single Woodlawn block, replacing 11 vacant lots