Coalition Aims To Bring Back Elegance To Downtrodden Area

A coalition of businesses seeks help from landscape architecture students and environmental artist John David Mooney to bring elegance back to a downtrodden area of Chicago's Magnificent Mile.

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February 27, 2002, 12:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"[A] coalition of 60 merchants, museums and landlords is vowing to renovate and upgrade the downtrodden area, dubbed Central Michigan Avenue... Teams of students visited the area in September and returned to West Lafayette, Ind., to devise proposals. Now, their three-dimensional models of how to transform Central Michigan Avenue are on display at the John D. Mooney Foundation"

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Avenue boulevardiers want the elegance back

Wednesday, February 27, 2002 in The Chicago Tribune

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