Market Update: Inflation, War, and Rogers Park
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Doug Imber
President, Essex Realty Group and RPBG Director
I’ve had the privilege of working in the Rogers Park apartment industry for more than 30 years, yet each time I attempt to summarize the market, the analysis seems more complicated than it did before.
Carla Price – Always There for RPBG
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As one of the Rogers Park Builders Group founding members, Carla has been a constant presence in our organization, contributing her boundless energy and enthusiasm at every opportunity. Her years of service and dedication to the organization were recognized by RPBG President, Mike Glasser, at the Director’s Meeting last year when she was presented with the “President’s Award” for 2021.
As I See It: Property Owners, Large and Small, Need a Voice
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Mike Glasser, RPBG President
Spring, 2022
A wide variety of groups and individuals own multi-family properties.
Some buildings are owned by individual investors. Others are owned by large corporations.
Verella’s Round-Up: Assorted Bag of Tips
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- Verella Osborne, President, Legal Document Management, Inc.
- Spring, 2022
Happy “almost summer” to everyone. No long oratory (or rant) for this edition of the Newsletter – just a few comments on some of the areas or issues I see currently affecting housing providers in their effort to recover after the God-awful rental housing mess left by our city, county and state governments.
Around Rogers Park - Infrastructure Funding To Help Rogers Park Shoreline
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Given the critical role Chicago plays in the nation’s transportation network, it is not surprising that the city and state stand to benefit from the $1.3 trillion Infrastructure Bill that the Biden administration was able to push through Congress last August. But did you know that some of these funds may eventually make it to Rogers Park to help the neighborhood preserve its shoreline?
Around Rogers Park - 1710 West Lunt Avenue Zoning Change Request Denied
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RPBG Director Dave Gassman, DLG Properties, requested a change in zoning for a 7-unit property at 1710 West Lunt Avenue to allow a 13-unit addition at the rear of the building, increasing the total unit count to 20. The zoning change would have triggered the city’s Affordable Requirements Ordinance (ARO) which mandates the inclusion of 20% affordable units in Rogers Park. For the Lunt building, this would have required four affordable units out of the 20 proposed. The structure has been vacant since 2016 and was formerly operated as a half-way house by Lutheran Social Services. Mr. Gassman purchased the building in 2017 and has been trying to put together a plan to redevelop the property since that time.
Around Rogers Park - Stacie Young Highlights Importance of NOAH in Crain’s OpEd
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Stacie Young, President and CEO of Community Investment Corporation (CIC), stressed the importance of Chicago’s Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) in an OpEd piece in the April 11, 2022 edition of Crain’s Chicago Business.
Immigration – Then and Now
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It’s been a while since I’ve written about immigration. Using RefugeeOne as my lens, I wrote several articles during the Trump years about the previous administration’s hostility to immigrants and refugees, and the consequences for Chicago and Rogers Park.
Dorian Bezanis, RPBG Director
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Dorian Bezanis is a lot of things, but if there is one word that just keeps coming back, it’s irrepressible. Anyone who knows him (and that is quite a lot of people) will agree, he is sort of the Energizer Bunny come to life.
