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(Left) Three beautiful n~ con~minium bui~ingr in Edgewarer--~o ei~hr-~n and a )ur-~r--row~ over a reac fiom rhe pmr. Oth~ ~ingle-~mil~ <br />home~ succumbed to the wrecking ball ~o make way ~r &e n~ ~elopmen= Zoning chang~ most ~suredly ~companied the &anffe. (Right) Consider <br /> <br />existing businesses have to leave the neighborhood, but changes <br />from gencrificarion, however gradual, invariably mean higher <br />housing costs, increased coxes, and rising rents for plant workers <br />who live in the neighborhood, hOC to mention pressure From <br />new neighborhood groups about noise, odor, and tral~:. <br /> Some industrial areas in West Town have been rezoned PMD <br />(Protected Manuhcruring District)as a result o£gencrificadon <br />pressures and a fear oE losing more industry in a ciry thor has <br />lost a quarter of a million manufacturing jobs since 1960. PMD <br />zoning offers additional protection in e.dsdng industrial areas, <br />virtually ensuring the prohibition o£ residential development. <br />Such a change would need the approval of the endre dry <br />council. Wit_hour the PMD, aging warehouses-surdy would ~ve <br />way to adaptive rede ~'or residential or commercial lofts. <br /> North Hal.ired Street is the center of Chicago's gay commUmty, <br />one of the la_rgesc in America. ThLs commercial district, complete <br />with the country's first and only ~y-themed srreetscape of rainbow <br />pylons-credit Mayor R/chard M. Daley--ls aligned with bars and <br />dubs, ~edgy" retail shops, gdlerie~, upscale resrnurants, a ~y <br />commtmiry center, and provocative but tasteful sex shops. This ~y <br />cultural Mecca known as the U, tkeview neighbothood---whimsic.dly <br />named "Boysrown"--was once a low-income Hispanic commumry <br />that gentrified when ~ys were "pushed out" of neighboring Lincoln <br />Park in the 1970s. The pamrn continues even today az profmsional~ <br />move into Lakeview by the thousands, further driving up housing <br />costs and rents, and prompting many of the ~y pioneers to move <br />norr. hward into Uptown, Edgewater, and Rogers Park. <br /> <br />(Right, above) The reuse of a~ng warehouses is a common <br />~'t~ht in genrrif)ing industrial tines, like this one in <br />Chrcago's trendy---~nd now e.?ensive-~Saurh Loop <br />neighborhood. (Right, below) Thu residential loft building <br />is tn the heart of C,~icago'~ Fulton Marker ('located in <br />heavily 3,enrri25ing West Town). a seven-block sffetch of <br />wholesale ~bod distributors, dealing mostly in perishables <br />that mclua'e meat and ?oulru./. An industrial area that <br />dares back to the rum of the 20th centu?, the changes in <br /> the l¢[~trket are qmre noticeable, with lo#s and galler~e$ <br /> strangdy co-ex~srmg wtrh thro~tgs ¥/brkli#s, semi-~tcks. <br />and mysrerwus ot/ficro~7 nmsanc.,s. ACUvt~. m the marker <br /> starts ever'/morning ar 2 A.M. <br /> <br /> North Hoisted Street still is alive with activity and <br />entertainment, but some feel the future oE the colorful <br />commercial corridor is in jeopardy, as a strong economy and <br />many of r. he aforementioned indicators generate unprecedented <br />devdopmenc along irs blocks. Much of the new development is <br />mixed-use, with ground-floor retail and pricey residential above. <br />Concerned neighborhood groups have questioned the <br />proliferation of residential development along Hoisted, fearing <br />r. hat new homeowners, many of th. em affluent, white, and <br /> <br />5101 <br /> <br /> <br />