CHICAGO-Retailers displaced by construction of Kennedy-King College’s $192-million campus at 63rd and Halsted streets are staking out new space in a 160,000-sf center in the 5900 and 6000 blocks of S. Halsted Street. City officials say about 42% of the space in the $23-million project already has been claimed by 23 businesses that once operated in the heart of the Englewood community’s shopping district.

A business planned development for the 8.5 acres of mostly city-owned vacant lots was endorsed recently by the plan commission. Smithfield Properties, LLC was approved in 2002 for about $6 million in tax increment financing assistance and land write-downs for its nine-building project.

“This has been a long time coming,” says 16th Ward Alderman Shirley Coleman. “We are excited…It really will be a boost for us.”

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