When you have vast amounts of little-used space to revive for the sake of jobs and community enrichment, you pick a place to start and be brave.
Three competing development teams and the city’s Department of Planning and Development, working with community groups, are in that process now. The teams have responded to the city’s public request for proposals for two properties it owns along Pershing Road, where a row of buildings defines Chicago’s historic Central Manufacturing District, lining the road like big-shouldered centurions of another age.
