53rd Street Visioning Workshop-- The Walk

On Saturday, May 3rd, about a hundred Hyde Parkers gathered at Kenwood Academy for the second in a series of workshops Irene Sherr is organizing to look at the 53rd Street retail district.  After some chatting to neighbors over coffee, we listened while a panel of 8 experts introduced themselves.  Then we divided up into self-selected groups with a particular interest and a pair of experts to ask questions of.  A walking tour of the retail district followed and our appointed task was to take pictures and look for opportunities for improvement.  I put a 29-photo album here with comments concerning what I saw along the walk.

At 53rd and Lake Park, a Hyde Parker stopped me and asked what our group was doing.  He stated that he was having a hard time figuring it out because we looked so diverse.  His first guess had been that we were all in a drug treatment program.

Comments

[Jennifer]

I give up: What's terribly horribly wrong with that picture?

I see at least one car that looks like it might be illegally parked, a cyclist that might be riding a bit too close to the door zone, and Boston Market hogging an extra storefront along 53rd. Is it the latter?

Oh, it's the thing that used to be Osco. Very suburban, with the front entrance facing the parking lot like that. Except the loading dock is also crammed into a corner near the front entrance. What were they thinking?