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New housing and retail will be attracting new residents and new business tenants to the latest effort by North Ave Community Development Corp. The $4.8 million Toussaint Square development will include 23 apartments and retail space for four or five stores.
North Avenue CDC is renovating a former Schlitz beer garden building and constructing a new building adjacent to it. Construction is beginning and the project is to be completed in October 2006. There will be 19 two-bedroom and four three-bedroom units.
"North Avenue CDC has been an important partner in economic development in the 15th District," said Ald. Hines. "Toussaint Square is one more piece of the puzzle that will change, improve and transform the neighborhood."
North Avenue CDC President Damon Dorsey says the new project is part of the organization's North Avenue Gateway Development Project, which has overseen
a number of developments, including Columbia Square, an apartment and retail development just east of Toussaint Square.
Toussaint Square is named after Francois-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture, a leader of the Haitian Revolution 200 years ago, the first successful slave rebellion in the western hemisphere which established Haiti as a free, Black republic. For more information please call Damon Dorsey at 871-4793.
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