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City Looks for Help Remaking Lakefront

WAUKEGAN, IL-The Washington, DC-based Urban Land Institute could come here next year to help draw up a plan for redeveloping this gritty north suburban city's ill-planned and underutilized lakefront.

By Mark Ruda | Updated on September 27, 2001

WAUKEGAN, IL-This city’s lakefront has long been its most underutilized asset, as many of its original industrial uses have left town or gone out of business. However, city officials have put out a call to Washington, DC-based Urban Land Institute to help them prepare a master plan for redeveloping land along Lake Michigan paralleled by railroad tracks industrial buildings, a sewage treatment plant and marina.

ULI managing director for advisory services Mary Beth Corrigan says she has had discussions with the city about sending an advisory services panel to the city to study the lakefront. ULI’s advisory services panels have helped such cities as Kenosha, WI, just a few miles north of Waukegan along the lakefront.

Corrigan concedes her knowledge of Waukegan and its lakefront is limited to telephone conversations with city officials and photographs. She can draw at least one conclusion of the city’s early planning efforts, however. “They just didn’t like the water,” she quipped.

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