The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, a swath of empty property south of Delancey Street, will get 450
affordable housing units as part of a
major redevelopment
project — and those units will remain
affordable forever, city officials announced Tuesday.
He has since moved onto larger, multi-million
projects, creating
affordable housing, cafes, the restoration of a
major bank building, and successfully pushing through his vision for an Arts Incubator at the University of Chicago.