GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY FOR A $17 MILLION AFFORDABLE RENTAL COMPLEX IN HONOR OF DR MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Located at the corner of 16th and Hamlin Street in the North Lawndale Neighborhood on the site where Dr. King lived in 1966. The DR. KING LEGACY APARTMENTS will officially launch the creation of the MLK Historic District. This District will bring affordable housing and renewed commercial development to a business area that was almost completely eliminated during the 1968 riots that were sparked by King's assassination. The 45 residential units and six units of ground floor commercial space is located on 16th Street between Hamlin and Avers and includes the site where Dr. King and his family lived in the summer of 1966 during his campaign against slum housing. The development team is a partnership between LCDC, Safeway Companies and the West Side Federation. LCDC will begin construction on the DR. KING LEGACY Apartments early in 2010.

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