celery pond

For those of you who are following the Dunkley Street Re-development Proposal schedules, you know that the deadline is this coming Wednesday at 2pm. The City put out a call for developers to submit proposals for the public lands, to consider them for development with subsequent sale of lands.

The non-profits are joining together to submit a proposal of equal merit, to keep the public lands in public hands. The Cool Cities group will be outlining their Black River Cultural Center idea and the Celery Pond Advocates will be submitting their plan of a park design. Each group is supporting the other’s plan and the park actually integrates the whole.

Paul VandenBosch said that once received, the proposals will be scanned and put on the City’s web site for public view by Thursday and Friday of this week. You’ll be able to read all the details of our plan at that time, and of course, the blog will be giving information for readers to easily access.

As there’s lots of work involved in doing this presentation, we’ll meet again after the 23rd. Hope to see you all on Thursday, May 24th at Lake Michigan College for the DVD presentation of the Naperville Riverwalk story. (11:45am-1:15pm).