#NEW CITY RETREAT DRIVERS#

The center hosts local people to work in the gardens, the kitchen, as guides, massage therapists, drivers etc, so the community is directly involved in Bab Zouina. Karim Zein is the owner and also an Iyengar Yoga practitioner.

It is surrounded by gardens and has a swimming pool, hammam and tennis court. 17, 2016: Chicago’s 606 trail is only a little over a year old and already there is an ambitious proposal to extend it.(“Door Of Beauty”) is a quiet retreat, set in pure nature with views on the Atlas mountains, 30 minutes from Marrakesh. May 15: Starting next week, the Lakefront Trail will be closed between Diversey and North avenues as the project to separate the bike and pedestrian paths continues.Īlderman’s Plan to Extend 606 Trail Faces Numerous Challenges Lakefront Trail Separation Requires North Side Closure, Detour May 16: Self-driving cars, shuttles that come to your door with the click of a button, walkable communities-these are just a few of the alternative futures residents are being asked to consider this spring and summer. To share your input on the Low-Line project, take this survey. It’s a farmer’s markert that runs from June 1 through Oct. Keeping in mind these considerations, PORT is looking into adding better lighting and thinking through appropriate uses for a space below moving trains.Ĭurrently, there’s the Low-Line Market at the Southport stop-the first initiative of the Low-Line project. “Some people say, ‘Yeah, Chicago is noisy, it’s under the ‘L’ tracks and that’s fine.’” “If there was a place to sit here, would you sit here?” Moddrell said. “There are parking spaces there, so if there’s going to be this encouraged use, we want to make sure people feel safe moving through there,” Moddrell said.Īnother concern is noise from the “L” trains. “It isn’t really intended to be a place for people right now, it’s really a maintenance space for the CTA,” said Andrew Moddrell, a partner at PORT, the agency hired to take on the first phase of the project’s designs. Low-Line map shows the half-mile Lakeview path.īut there are a few design considerations to keep in mind. And that portion of the project-the Paulina station and both sides of Ashland Avenue-is set to open during this summer. The idea of the Low-Line was first envisioned in the 2011 Lakeview Area Master Plan, and the project has a few goals: to beautify the neighborhood, create more green space and connect commercial corridors.Ī portion of the project is being financed by Special Service Area 27, a funding mechanism that raises money through a property tax levy for a particular taxing district. “Like the idea of encouraging people to linger underneath a train that’s loud and can sometimes be kind of dirty, but I think that’s the area where we can make the greatest amount of improvement: by cleaning up the space, by making it more visible, by giving people a reason to experience it.” “The idea of the Low-Line seems sort of unusual, right?” said Dillon Goodson, the community development manager at the Lakeview Chamber of Commerce who has been working closely with the Chicago Transit Authority on a proposal. The new half-mile path in Lakeview will be below and between the CTA Brown Line Southport and Paulina “L” stations.

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