Bennett Day School to Open in Fulton District

CHICAGO—Bennett Day School, a new, pre-kindergarten to 8th grade progressive school, will start inaugural classes this August at 657 W. Fulton St. in Chicago’s Fulton River District. And local real estate developers say the school is just the latest sign that the former industrial area, now filling up with giant developments like K2 and Echelon at K Station, has become a true neighborhood that will now have even greater success at attracting new residents.

“A school coming in is a really great thing,” Steve Fifield, president and chief executive officer of Fifield Cos., tells GlobeSt.com. When Fifield started developing the K Station apartment buildings in the West Loop about ten years ago, “we felt that the neighborhood hadn’t completely gelled yet.”