Throwback Thursday: 63rd & Halsted

Back in June 2013, I posted this collage of shots from my quick stop to this intersection on Sixth Ward blog. This is basically the heart of Englewood which during much different and better times was a commercial area full of retail that could rival downtown Chicago. Thanks to the shopping mall and other economic effects such as "white flight" the commercial area declined to the point of what you see here.

Those storefronts are mostly gone and has been replaced by a community college. Imagine what happened in this area just about 3 years later. Perhaps the commerce will begin to return to this area sooner than many of us will imagine.

Think Whole Foods Market opened a store here, a Starbucks and a Chipotle. Unfortunately another building has gone down thanks to fire but that just means another place worth building upon in the future here. Can't wait to show you a similar scene from here back in September 2016.

That image was also something posted - though after the fact - to Sixth Ward blog's ig page

A post shared by The Sixth Ward (@thesixthward) on Nov 21, 2014 at 6:25am PST