Healthy Lifestyle Hub
The Auburn Gresham Healthy Lifestyle Building Is Open and
Lighting up the Corridor!
THANK YOU FOR Joining Us for the Community Open House 11/11/22, from 4pm until 7pm
JOIN US FOR UPDATES ON A SPECIAL RAPID RESOURCE LINE CALL
*** New CALL IN NUMBER: 551-241-6209 ***
Every Friday, at 6:00pm, Join us for a discussion on the HUB!
To Join the Information Session call (551) 241-6209
How to Help the AG Healthy Lifestyle Building
- Donate on http://www.gagdc.org/donate.html It will direct you to a secure PayPal for your donation
- Mail check payable to Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation, 7901 S. Racine, Chicago, IL 60620
- Commerative engraved plaques are available. $1000 Pledge to put your mark on the building, for more details and to find out how call us at 773.483.3696.
Donate anytime during the REBUILD79 Campaign, by clicking on this donate link or the picture below. Be sure to add a note that your contribution should be applied to the AG Healthy Lifesyle Building.
Redevelopment Project 2020 Status
839 West 79th Street
Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation (GAGDC) is leading the effort to redevelop a long vacant, office building on this key commercial corridor in the Auburn Gresham community. The redevelopment of 839-45 West 79th Street is a catalytic development project that will not only spur additional development along the disinvested business district, but will also bring back to life a once prominent commercial building that has stood ominously vacant for twenty years. The building is situated within the LISC Chicago-led Southwest Corridor Collaborative (SWCC) at the 79th & Halsted development node.
The redevelopment project is being implemented as part of the recently completed Auburn Gresham Quality of Life plan (QoL) which lists several strategies and tasks to improve the quality of life of residents in Auburn Gresham and surrounding communities. During the 1-1/2 year long planning process, more than one-thousand residents were engaged and took part in monthly discussions and together, divided into separate issue area task force teams, drafted the community’s Quality of Life plan. The task force teams focused on core areas including: (1) Jobs, Economic and Business Development; (2) Health & Wellness; (3) Education & Youth Development; (4) Senior Services; (5) Housing; and (6) Safety. When complete, the redevelopment of the vacant building into the Auburn Gresham Healthy Life Style Technology Hub (rendering shown above) will directly respond to the community’s quality of life plan including workforce development - the creation of 100 living wage jobs within the community – access to health and wellness services “Hub”, technology and educational enhancements, along with community development services supporting youth, seniors, families and disenfranchised serving the greater south side. Read full summary here.
How to Help the AG Healthy Lifestyle Building
- Donate anytime during the REBUILD79 Campaign, by clicking on this donate link or the picture below. Be sure to add a note that your contribution should be applied to the AG Healthy Lifesyle Building.Donate on http://www.gagdc.org/donate.html It will direct you to a secure PayPal for your donation
- Mail check payable to Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation, 7901 S. Racine, Chicago, IL 60620
- Commerative engraved plaques are available. $1000 Pledge to put your mark on the building, for more details and to find out how call us at 773.483.3696.
REBUILD79 CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
AG Healthy Lifestyle Hub Press
- 2024 JPMorgan Chase stories https://www.jpmorganchase.com/newsroom/stories/AuburnGresham
- 2024 Southside Weekly https://southsidedrivemag.com/miracles-abound-in-auburn-gresham-with-gagdc
- 2023 LISC Chicago CNDA Award Video - #CNDA29 Winner: Auburn Gresham Healthy Lifestyle Hub
- 2023 Watch our CEO on CBS 2 News as he discusses all things GAGDC - our work, the Healthy Hub and the upcoming Gala (10/26)!
- 2023 CMAP Excellenence Award Winner! Watch the video to see how the Hub addresses community gaps in health care,
healthy food options, banking, and education: https://www.cmap.illinois.gov/regional-excellence-awards/2023-winners#Equity_with_Impact_2017
- Her Health Only Reposts Opening Press: https://www.herhealthonly.com/auburn-greshams-healthy-lifestyle-hub-to-celebrate-grand-opening-friday-and-everyone-is-invited-block-club-chicago/
- https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2023/01/ncue-community-partner-greater-auburn-gresham-development-corporation-holds-grand-opening-of-auburn-gresham-healthy-lifestyle-hub/
- AG Healthy Lifestyle Open House 11.11.22 https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/inside-the-healthy-lifestyle-hub-bringing-new-resources-to-auburn-gresham
- https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/10/10/miracle-on-79th-street-auburn-greshams-healthy-hub-opens-bringing-restaurants-a-clinic-bank-and-more-to-the-south-side/?utm_source=Pico Block Club Chicago artcle AG Healthy Lifestyle Hub Ribbon Cutting, Atavia Reed, October 10, 2022
- WATCH LIVE | Healthy Lifestyle Hub in Auburn Gresham Gets Ribbon Cutting
- https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/10/5/23387401/gresham-healthy-lifestyle-hub-opening-79th-street-ui-health-center-bank-america-mikkeys-grill October 5, 2022
- WGN Chicago video clip of AG Healthy Lifestyle Hub Ribbon Cutting https://youtu.be/54IBl0DtjQg
- https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/news/searching-for-solutions-to-gun-violence-health-lifestyle-hub-planned-for-auburn-gresham/ Jul 20, 2022
- https://www.chicagobusiness.com/equity/auburn-gresham-south-side-chicago-neighborhood-investment-development
- https://www.chicagobusiness.com/equity/auburn-gresham-residents-drive-investment-their-community
- Auburn Gresham's Healthy Lifestyle Hub Will Open This Month On 79th Street, Bringing New Life To A Long Vacant Building Jul 8, 2022 Atavia Reed
- https://ptfound.org/chicago-prize/update-on-chicago-prize-2020/ June 14, 2022 (Chicago Prize 2022)
- JPMorgan Chase Delivers Over $1 Billion in Community Development Financing Including GAGDC $14.5M NMTC News May 3, 2022
- Landmarks Illinois Timuel Black grant https://www.landmarks.org/grants/tblackfund/landmarks-illinois-timuel-d-black-jr-grant-fund-for-chicagos-south-side-grant-recipients/ (3rd listed) Awarded June 2021
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GAGDC’s CEO Carlos Nelson helps revive community through Bears partnerships https://chicagocrusader.com/gagdcs-ceo-carlos-nelson-helps-revive-community-through-bears-partnerships/
- New Market Tax Credit Coalition https://nmtccoalition.org/2021/02/01/recent-nmtc-project-round-up/ February 2021
- GAGDC inspiring video of its neighborhood network services with highlights of the Healthy Hub by United Way Metro Chicago A Vision for a Stronger Auburn Gresham (7 Minute Version)
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A Vision for a Stronger Auburn Gresham (3.5 Minute Version)
- Carlos Nelson will forever be associated with QB Justin Fields. Here’s how the Auburn Gresham community leader got to the NFL stage weeks after losing his father, an avid Chicago Bears fan.
- https://www.audacy.com/670thescore/sports/chicago-bears/local-leader-carlos-nelson-honored-community-family-announce-chicago-bears-justin-fields-nfl-draft
- https://www.chicagobears.com/news/bears-to-invest-611-000-in-healthy-lifestyle-hub?fbclid=IwAR2GtsD7XdOAyEyqLLKmLToLGlmuX1wyVMCT66PNBBSnJ5puvt5HS3_AxwA
- Chicago Tribune Front Page AG Wins inagural Chicago Prize https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-chicago-prize-awarded-20200806-3dd4d74vbnd2dl6brhmyrvl3qm-story.html
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- https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-forum-infrastructure/forum-main-bar-economic-development
- https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/08/24/healthy-living-hub-is-centerpiece-of-big-plans-for-auburn-gresham-in-5-to-10-years-youll-see-the-vibrancy/
- https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/6/21298992/chicago-prize-pritzker-traubert-austin-gresham-little-village-englewood-lawndale-south-west
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- 10 million Chicago Prize finalists want to revitalize 6 Southside Neighborhoods
- Finalists Named For $10 Million Prize To Aid Chicago Communities
- Six community Six community Compete for Chicago Prize December 2019
- WBEZ Chicago Interview, November 2019
- The Chicago Citizen South End, May 10, 2017
- The Chicago Defender, June 1, 2017
- The Cook County Chronicle, December 20, 2017