Brendan Sodikoff

California and Augusta has dramatically changed in the last year, and there's more to come.

Eating Brooklyn-style pizza slices on picnic tables is another option for dining al fresco.

The scrappy art gallery is back, despite the loss of its space at California and Augusta in October.

The 56-seat eatery along Milwaukee Avenue will offer red and white pizza slices for $4.50 each.

The increasingly familiar California-Augusta intersection will see another opening by the year's end.

The Haywood Tavern will open toward the end of this year at the corner of California and Augusta.

Formerly the nation's 10th Hottest 'Hood of 2014, Humboldt Park's popularity is now through the roof.

Slices will cost under $5 and there will be a rotating selection of beer at Roxie's, a roadside hangout.

“It’s 100 percent the next growth area. It’s the next frontier," Sodikoff told DNAinfo.

Gino Battaglia owns all four corners at California and Augusta and aims to create a new economic area.

Work is underway to build a pizzeria in an old Mexican cafe with an opening targeted for next year.

Brendan Sodikoff bashed the Pump Room operator for "ruining" the property, and vowed not to do the same.

A new restaurant is coming to the former Cafe Con Leche space in "late fall or early winter."