posted by chicago pop
On a gray winter stretch of December, this rendering of what we can expect at 53rd and Harper is a pleasant reminder of what Chicago streetlife can be like in the summer, and hopefully will be again soon at this location. Hat tip to HPP reader SS for the link at The Architect's Newspaper.
8 comments:
Looks like a nice suburban shopping corner. Ugh.
Most suburban shopping corners are not composed of nearly 100-year old buildings, street-facing storefronts, and an absence of free parking.
Looks ok to me--as long as no one opens another chain eatery in this neighborhood. Ever. Our three Subways are already too much and I'd kill for a good, locally-owned Indian restaurant or a great, locally-owned Ethiopian restaurant.
Personally, I would picket foreign-owned Ethiopian restaurants. Or I would picket local Ethiopian restaurants with foreign staff. Or I would picket local Ethiopian restaurants with local staff that served foreign food. Whatever.
The Medici is a chain eatery, btw.
So happy the theater will again be a theater, a triumph of renovation and adaptive reuse over potential demolition.
Well put, Chason. This will be a unique location, distinctive to Hyde Park.
In jw's defense, s/he did specify "good" Indian restaurant and that eliminates Rajun Cajun. If you consider it to be an Indian restaurant to begin with. I too would love to have a real Indian restaurant and also a real Chinese restaurant and, if I dare, a Vietnamese place that serves really great pho on a cold winter night... in the meantime, I'll have to keep trekking up to Devon, Chinatown, Argyle etc. I guess.
I'm glad someone else find the southern comfort/Indian hybrid as amusing as I do. Said by a loyal customer.
Rajun Cajun is real Indian, but not a real restaurant because the plates are styrofoam and the washrooms are non-existent
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