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Massive real estate project proposed for Southeast Side ignites debate about whether the concept represents economic opportunity

A massive commercial real estate project proposed for Chicago’s Southeast Side remains in limbo as its planners battle environmental activists over how best to rebuild the area’s economy. A group backed by the Ozinga family wants to burrow several hundred feet beneath a contaminated former steel mill site and create a 6 million-square-foot underground storage facility called the Invert. They say the project will create thousands of jobs and make a mostly empty chunk of land productive.

 

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