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Eisenberg Foundation’s Real Estate Challenge Draws Biggest Field Yet
The Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation’s 11th Annual Real Estate Challenge is tasking 14 collegiate teams from across the country with creating a hypothetical master plan for a five-parcel site in Woodlawn, near the Obama Presidential Center’s future home.
Representing the largest and most geographically diverse group yet assembled for the Challenge, the teams will create a new vision for Woodlawn’s Stony Island Avenue as a “Great Street of Chicago” and emphasize the re-establishment of 63rd Street as a neighborhood destination.
“Woodlawn was once a community with 80,000 people, peaking in the 1960s,” said DL3 Realty’s Leon Walker, a site partner in this year’s Challenge. “While political and cultural changes have resulted in a community that has been historically disinvested, with this hypothetical development, we are looking at an opportunity to reimagine the gateway to Woodlawn.”
