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And there will be much more to come in 2023.

Promoting more housing options is a good move, but the public infrastructure that makes a city attractive — good schools, dependable public transit, a solution to crime — is also needed.

It makes it possible for companies like ours, whose mission expands beyond building profits, to show a new model for the construction industry.

Chicago developers worried last year that construction projects would face bureaucratic snarls after city planners added a layer to the approval process. Builders already had to run a gantlet of officials on several commissions and committees, as well as City Council. Some now had to face the Committee on Design,…

Three years in, INVEST South/West has secured significant investment commitments, but many people are still asking if the program has had an impact. We can vociferously say it has.

Since arriving from Detroit three years ago, Planning and Development Commissioner Maurice Cox has focused on delivering Lightfoot’s mayor’s signature plan to leverage $750 million in public money already in the pipeline” to lure private investment to areas neglected for decades.

Construction on the $3 million development at 79th and Halsted streets is expected to start Wednesday, with the city promising that pending projects in other areas will follow.

It’s early yet, but we like the rebound plan for the beleaguered shopping district under the city’s marquee Invest South/West initiative.

The residential and commercial development is from A.J. Patton of 548 Development, whose past work has drawn notice from Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration.