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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 24 April 2017 - 06:57 PM

CTA news release:

 

Mayor Emanuel, Congressman Rush Join CTA to Announce Plans to Revitalize Cottage Grove Green Line Station

4/24/2017

 

Improvements will benefit planned commercial and residential development and reinvigorate the gateway to Woodlawn community

 

 

 

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and U.S. Congressman Bobby Rush today joined CTA President Dorval R. Carter, Jr. and Chicago Department of Transportation Commissioner (CDOT) Rebekah Scheinfeld to announce conceptual plans to revitalize and renovate the CTA’s Cottage Grove Green Line station and the surrounding area.

 

The project is the latest investment on the Green Line by Mayor Emanuel and CTA, and complements the ongoing commercial and residential developments near the station, including the recently announced new 70-unit Woodlawn Station mixed use residential and commercial project next to the station.

 

“We are investing in the future of the CTA, and in the future of Woodlawn,” said Mayor Emanuel. “Investments like this one strengthen communities, attract private investment and drive neighborhood growth."

 

The conceptual plan for Cottage Grove proposes visual, architectural and lighting treatments outside of the station to enhance the experience of both CTA customers and pedestrians. Options under consideration include architectural screening and community identifiers along sidewalks and on the ‘L’ structure. Changes to the station itself could include new canopies and reconfigured stairs.

 

“I am pleased that the historic CTA Green Line will get the attention it needs and deserves. Even as the Woodlawn community continues to enjoy a revitalization, its hardworking residents are deserving of a station that is attractive, modernized, and safe. I look forward to seeing these plans come to fruition,” said Congressman Rush.

 

CTA and CDOT are working to develop a full project scope and estimated budget for the project. Details are expected to be finalized later this year.

 

“As with the Garfield Green Line station and the Belmont Blue Line station, here at Cottage Grove we see an opportunity to create an attractive community gateway that will serve as a hub for Woodlawn,” said CTA President Carter.

 

Just minutes from the future home of the Obama Presidential Center, the Cottage Grove Green Line station is in the heart of the revitalizing Woodlawn neighborhood - steps from MetroSquash, a recreational and educational center, the Woodlawn Resource Center, a new residence hall for University of Chicago, five new POAH apartment buildings, the first market-rate apartment development to be built in Woodlawn in decades, new dining options, coffee shops and more. 

 

The Cottage Grove Green Line Station is also included in CDOT's upcoming federally funded Walk to Transit project to improve pedestrian safety and access to 10 CTA stations throughout Chicago.  CDOT identified the Cottage Grove station for improvement based on crash history, recent neighborhood development, connectivity to other transit options, and neighborhood demand for improved walkability.

 

“Working with the CTA to improve access to transit is a priority for CDOT,” CDOT Commissioner Scheinfeld said. “We want to encourage people to use the L, and we can accomplish this by making it safer and easier for people to get to and from their local CTA station.

 

The Cottage Grove station is one of the CTA’s oldest, built in 1893 as part of the city’s first elevated rail line—the South Side ‘L’ that served the World’s Columbian Exposition. The original station was torn down and replaced with current station in 1991. The station serves more than 1,000 customers on an average weekday, with more than 372,000 riders in 2016.

 

The Cottage Grove Green Line project is the latest in more than $8 billion of transit investment by Mayor Emanuel and CTA since 2011, including numerous investments on the South Side.

 



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Posted 24 April 2017 - 07:05 PM

Chicago Tribune, 4/24:

CTA, city plan renovation of Cottage Grove Green Line station

 


 

The CTA and the city on Monday announced plans to renovate the Cottage Grove Green Line station roughly a mile from the future Obama presidential library but are still working out the details, including the cost and when construction would begin.

 

Options being considered for the station at 63rd Street include new canopies, lighting and reconfigured stairs, as well as a sign to identify the Woodlawn community. The CTA and the Chicago Department of Transportation are working on developing the project's full scope and estimated budget, and details are expected to be finalized later this year, according to the agencies.

 

The project will promote the station as a "gateway" to the community — the same idea behind plans to renovate the Belmont Blue Line and the Garfield Green Line stations. But the Cottage Grove project will be on a smaller scale and cost less than the $15 million Belmont or the $50 million Garfield renovations, said CTA spokesman Brian Steele.

 

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Posted 04 October 2017 - 05:16 PM

dnainfo, Chicago, IL 10/4/17:
 

Woodlawn's Rise Will Come With A Revamped Train Station, Mayor Promises

 

 

WOODLAWN — Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced he was pushing forward with a plan to redo the Cottage Grove Green Line stop and promised work would start early next year.

 

Emanuel said work would start to redo the southeastern terminus of the Green Line in the first half of 2018 at a lunch Tuesday afternoon with Woodlawn community leaders at Metrosquash, 6100 S. Cottage Grove Ave.

 

Emanuel originally announced the updates to the train stop in April, but there was no funding attached to the project at the time and it seemed uncertain when the project would actually start.

 

The mayor is pushing forward with the plan, but gave no updates about how the project would be paid for.

 

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