University’s Expansion Plan Concerns Neighbors
“The business district along Bryn Mawr Avenue in the North Park neighborhood may not be bustling, but the small businesses that dot the area are thriving. Some—like the Caren Real Estate Company—have been in the community for decades and are family owned.
But for a block of businesses that also include a long-standing Chinese restaurant, a dentist’s office, a hookah cafe and even a 7/11, the days may be numbered. For the first time in its history, Northeastern Illinois University wants to offer student housing and the stretch along Bryn Mawr, just two blocks from campus is where the NEIU says it needs to build dorms.”
WTTW 13 August 2014.