Rise of 63rd Street continues with plan for $48 million ‘Woodlawn Social’

Woodlawn Social, a $48 million development, is planned for 63rd Street between Ingleside and Greenwood avenues. (City of Chicago)

It’s good to see new development coming to the Woodlawn community’s East 63rd Street.

Once among Chicago’s storied commercial strips, 63rd Street was virtually vacant between Stony Island and Cottage Grove avenues by the start of this century, having been picked clean by decades of disinvestment, demolition and the 1990s mistake of ripping down the L tracks that once ran above the street.