Taxpayers give DevCorp North money to maintain these Planter/Waste Combo Containers, complete with Plastic Trees. Rogers Park Community Council gave it's "Citizen of the Year" Award in 2004 for this. Mission statements confirm this. Headlines and story in RP2000, Winter 2004 also confirm this.
Maintaining plastic trees requires no water, no special horticultural training, so this should be really easy for the janitors. Just pick the garbage out of these containers by hand. No special motorized tools are needed. Mission Statement Accomplished?
Check the snow that has melted around this garbage in one of the Planter/Waste Combo containers. Some of this garbage has been sitting in here at least 5 days! This is why I say Devcorp doesn't do this chore daily, like they claim in Mission Statements.
Howard Street, please tell us your Planter/Waster Container Streetscape stories! That would be SSA #19 for all you fellow Grown-Up Kindergarden students like me. Keeping it simple.
Who wants to bet these Combo containers get attention today? Odds at the "Morse Avenue Sidewalk-Crack-Ho Casino" are 2 to 1.
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It is pathetic looking.
I can't really understand WHY this type of thing happens...you would think there would be at least a LITTLE civic pride...I think DevCorp needs to hire supervisors that are effective in making things happen in Rogers Park and the police need to become a strong presence in the drug trafficing areas...
Chris
Please! More pictures of the planters! These pictures are important to get out so more people around the City can see them.
These planters are the number one justification given by SSA consultants, including our own Kimberly Bares and Rene Comargo of DevCorp North, flying under their Community Solutions Group, Inc. banner, use when they run around the City trying to talk other neighborhoods into raising property taxes and the Miracle of SSAs.
Shouldn't it be the ABC's of SSA's? Not The miracle of SSA's.
A miracle would be DevCorp actually doing something about this before Craig had to post photos.
The Miracle will be the day no one has to pick up after the "Knuckelheads"
Does anyone know what's going on with the schools in Rogers Park, particularly Senn High School, where RP kids go? Daley seems to think it's a perfect spot for a military academy.
Howard St. Streetscape info.
“The top of Howard is kind of animal because it borders Evanston,” said Joanna Barnhart, commercial district strategic planner at DevCorp, the Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce. “It’s hard to get much done there.”
Organizers from both Evanston and Chicago contributed to a recent $ 3.5 million street improvement plan, which Barnhart said will result in better roads, new trees and beige signs saying “Howard Street” that hang from street posts.
“The west side that shares the border with Evanston got the streetscape because Evanston paid for half of it,” Barnhart said. “I mean, $ 3.5 million is a lot of money.”
But cooperation with DevCorp is not a routine practice for Evanston, Barnhart said, using Evanston City Council’s recent approval for their Tax Increment Financing District as an example. The council planned the TIF, a budgeting plan to help beautify the area, without alerting Chicago planners or asking them for their input, Barnhart said.
“I actually solicited information about the TIF,” Barnhart said. “I heard about if from some of our business owners about three weeks ago and just got the info now. Before, it was just a rumor.”
The Evanston TIF is a product of competition between the Chicago and Evanston sides, Barnhart said. Evanston has been trying to catch up with Chicago’s part of Howard Street since the success of the Gateway Center and various other community-building projects, Barnhart said.
“I think part of the reason Evanston is trying to do the TIF is to complement what’s going on with Gateway,” Barnhart said. “It’s interesting that Evanston is investing so much in there after it’s been an area that was much ignored. Whereas DevCorp North, we’ve always given Howard lots of attention.”
Barnhart added that competition runs on both sides of the streets. After cooperation between Evanston and Chicago led to smoother roads west of the El station, the area of Howard Street east of the tracks anxiously awaits for their bumpy roads to be paved over with new cement, Barnhart said.
I don't know why people are bashing the Heartland Cafe for this (and other things). The trash certainly doesn't come from the Heartland but from the numerous scumbag dollar/corner stores in the neighborhood. The same stores that sell tons of blunts (so many cheap cigar aficionados around here, wow!) and ghetto dinners (portion-sized bags of chips, of course).
The Heartland actually does contribute a lot to the stability of the neighborhood, unlike the liquor and dollar stores.
I deleted the bash on the Heartland because it contained swear words. This is not tolerated here.
The Heartland does contribute, but they do get major favors others don't. They violated a Dumbster rules shown in other stories. One owner is supose to be a watch dog commisioners for SSA 24. She isn't living up to her agreement of the contract and mission statement.
If Anons are going to post, do not swear or I will remove the Aonymous comments section, all together.
I hope some of the Anon's show up tonight to the CAPS meeting. 1530 W. Morse, 7pm. I know it's short notice, I posted info on www.rogerspark.com much earlier.
“The top of Howard is kind of animal because it borders Evanston,” said Joanna Barnhart, commercial district strategic planner at DevCorp, the Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce. “It’s hard to get much done there.”
How snide, especially coming from non-Rogers Park resident. Shall we presume everything is roses in her Hyde Park hood? Doesn't her counterpart, Ms. Bares reside in another part of the city as well? Yet, at the 49th ward taxpayers expense, these women don't hesitate to accept their tax dollar salaries; to plead for free flowers for expensive taxpayer paid concrete park benches aka planters, and to speak so negatively! Perhaps they should spend this verbal energy courting real businesses to fill Howard vacant storefronts. With remarks like the one above, new business on Howard is doomed! So let's talk TIFS and SSA's...much easier.
I'm not a paid cheerleader for North of Howard, and I've complained high and low, but at least I have earned the right. I live here, I pay taxes here, and I share my flowers with good neighbors. AND, I did not see anyone from DevCorp at our summer picnics in Gale Park. Pity, they didn't comprehend we were trying to make a positive change. But socializing with animals is a difficult task...
Toni, just one of those NOH animals
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