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| A century ago, Ravinia was an artist's colony ------ a village. Today the violin workshop, the florist, the knitting store, and the shoemaker are redolent of the past and herald the future. | |
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Living "over the store" is an old idea that is reoccurring. The proximity of our beautifully restored train station to the business district and the unique adjacency to three parks creates opportunities. We have begun the process of improving our streetscape, enhancing the landscape, making our streets |
| friendlier with additional benches and bike racks, and beautifying our community with more planters and plantings. Longer term, we look to enhance and diversify the retail mix to have a business district similar to suburban areas such as Market Square in Lake Forest, Hubbard Woods in |
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| Winnetka, Glencoe's downtown, and the Central Street business district in Evanston. We want to maximize greenspace, allow for pedestrian walkways, improve parking, and insure smooth traffic flow. We will reach these goals working closely with city government, city commissions, park district, developers, and local businesses. | |
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We encourage developers to be mindful of our history: the architecture of Ravinia School, the craftsman style original buildings of Ravinia Festival, the restored train station, and the historic landscaping of Jens Jensen Park ... all of these can set the tone for future projects. |
| A decade ago, our neighborhood, working with the city and local businesses, conceived and completed the Ravinia Strategic Plan. We credit ourselves with ensuring that the first major step, building the Walgreens as an Arts and Crafts style structure, followed the spirit of that plan. We took an important second step, ensuring that the development of Ravinia Park Place as a modern structure with neoclassical elements would beautify and enhance the neighborhood ... and, currently, we're working to ensure the same for the proposed condominium structure at the NE corner of GreenBay and Roger Williams Avenues. The Ravinia Neighbors Association means working together to enhance, improve, and beautify our village---to ensure a Ravinia we are proud to call home. |
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