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Magnificent Mile ideas from mayoral candidate Ja’Mal Green
Green wants more pop-up stores and “Parisian-style cafes”; small-business corridors and alleys; wider sidewalks with benches and plazas; and greeters and ambassadors along the avenue.
The self-described “social entrepreneur and real-estate broker” also suggested Chicago’s official New Year’s Eve festivities to be based there, with a show; that a pad for helicopter tours be added; and accessibility to Navy Pier be improved.
In a phone interview, Green, 27, conceded that revitalizing upscale shopping districts normally is not on his bucket list. But with a 30% vacancy rate, something needs to be done on the avenue. If nothing else, the decline of the shopping district has cost the city “a lot of tax revenue that we…