PORTAGE PARK — An online campaign successfully raised $10,000 for new bicycle parking in the Six Corners Shopping district.
Clark Street Development, which plans to tear down the huge Bank of America branch at Cicero and Milwaukee avenues and Irving Park Road to make way for a new retail development that the firm has dubbed The Pointe at Six Corners, put the campaign over the top with a donation of $4,983 on Oct. 15, officials said.
The corrals will provide parking spaces for more than 40 bikes at 4018 N. Cicero Ave., 4015 N. Milwaukee Ave., 4839 W. Irving Park Road and a yet-to-be-determined location east of Cicero Avenue, Six Corners Association officials said.
"As a new neighbor to the Six Corners, we were thrilled to contribute to the ongoing revitalization of this historic district," Clark Street principal Peter Eisenberg said in a statement. "By making the area more bike and pedestrian friendly, we know more new shoppers and diners will be visiting this growing community."
Heather Cherone explains why the city did not fund the bike racks:
Since the original campaign to raise $10,000 money for three corrals met a Nov. 1 deadline, Saris — the manufacturer of the corrals — will donate a fourth rack, according to the business association.
Most of the other donations came in increments of $100 to $200 from local businesses, organizations and residents.
The Six Corners Association is working to make the shopping district more bike friendly, saying it would attract new shoppers and diners to the area — and help boost the area's burgeoning arts and entertainment district.
Some 22 new businesses are slated to open at Six Corners by the end of the year.
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