Don Gordon - It's Not "Just Politics"!

Don Gordon is running for 49th Ward Alderman

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Let's Talk TIFs peaks massive community interest

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Let's Talk TIFs in the 49th Ward

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Howard Street, Ashland Avenue & Rogers Avenue

In response to A Walk Down Howard Street - Rogers Park in 1,000 Words and And So 'It' Goes - North Howard Neighbors Association,

Don Gordon replied via email with everyone in local government and the media CC'd.

Michael,

Thanks for putting this out there and thanks to Bill Morton for the pics. The sad thing about this is that this lot has sat vacant for well over a dozen years - long before the current economic crash and for a long time while development in the city was in a boom cycle. Yet this corner and the sites just east of it remained either empty or in gutted out condition. It's hard for me to fathom that with a little effort from our alderman this couldn't have been addressed, but then again he was a bit "busy" making sure that the geese were safe, keeping Wal-Mart out of other blighted areas on the far south side and catering to union interests while plying his image nationally.

As a commercial realtor I'm sure you realize that now it's too late and any market driven solutions won't happen until we're well out of our economic mess, which will be years down the road. This is the collateral damage that a community suffers when their elected representative is "MIA". In the interim, I guess it wouldn't hurt to have a community garden or even a wildflower garden and not just a fence around an area that looks like it belongs in the middle of Kandahar. Whatever the interim solution the alderman should be on the owner of the property (bank or otherwise) to clean up their act and make the area look decent until something is done to develop it.

So once again we're faced with the same recurring question - Where's Joe?

Don

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Coffee and Coffee

Two coffee groups in Rogers Park: different purposes, but both meeting at Charmers Cafe.

Coffee Party

Cafe Society

Relevant links, Coffee Party:
North Howard Neighbors Association - Photos from the Rogers Park Coffee Party Gathering
http://nhna.blogspot.com/2010/03/photos-from-rogers-park-coffee-party.html


Relevant links, Cafe Society:
Bill Morton Promotions - Cafe Society
http://billmortonpromotions.blogspot.com/2010/03/cafe-society-at-charmers-cafe_13.html



Charmers Cafe 1500 W. Jarvis Avenue Chicago, IL. 60626

Oppose Rich Aronson tonight

I would like to advocate the historic preservation of the Wisdom Bridge Theatre, located at 1557-61 W. Howard Street Chicago, IL. 60626.


The community meeting will be held today at 7:00 p.m., at the Willye B. White Recreation Center, 1610 W. Howard Street. I encourage everyone who attends to oppose Alderman Joe Moore and developer Rich Aronson's plan to demolish one of the last of our historic theatres in Rogers Park.



Here is what I have to say about this:http://rp1000.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-time-to-revisit.html

Here is what Don Gordon has to say about this:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NorthHowardNeighborsAssociation/~3/InxjBAR2As0/rogers-park-resident-has-comments.html

Don Gordon raises questions about the Wisdom Bridge teardown

Read it here:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NorthHowardNeighborsAssociation/~3/InxjBAR2As0/rogers-park-resident-has-comments.html