Ford City Mall developer modifies project plans ahead of first city hearing
<p>The developer that wants to transform the shuttered Ford City Mall into an industrial campus could receive its first city approvals this week, after broadening its plans to include a public plaza and new CTA bus stop.</p><p>Chicago-based Kurv Industrial, formerly Bridge Industrial, plans to demolish Ford City Mall and build a four-building<a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2025/07/16/ford-city-mall-losing-shoppers-bridge-industrial-evolution" > industrial campus</a>. The project will be considered by the Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday.</p><p>Kurv’s plans submitted to the Plan Commission show a new Ford City heritage plaza that celebrates “over 80 years of Chicago history,” with landscaping and seating.
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<p>The developer that wants to transform the shuttered Ford City Mall into an industrial campus could receive its first city approvals this week, after broadening its plans to include a public plaza and new CTA bus stop.</p><p>Chicago-based Kurv Industrial, formerly Bridge Industrial, plans to demolish Ford City Mall and build a four-building<a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2025/07/16/ford-city-mall-losing-shoppers-bridge-industrial-evolution" > industrial campus</a>. The project will be considered by the Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday.</p><p>Kurv’s plans submitted to the Plan Commission show a new Ford City heritage plaza that celebrates “over 80 years of Chicago history,” with landscaping and seating. It also shows a new CTA bus station along Kostner Avenue, east of the mall.</p><p>The plaza and bus station could make Kurv’s plans more appealing to commissioners. Warehouses and industrial plans often face steep community opposition for their lack of public use and spaces, along with concerns of <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2026/05/12/warehouse-boom-next-day-delivery-die-80-amazon-centerpoint-intermodal-northpoint-joliet-manhattan-elwood" >increased traffic, noise and air pollution</a>.</p><p>Ald.
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- <p>The developer that wants to transform the shuttered Ford City Mall into an industrial campus could receive its first city approvals this week, after broadening its plans to include a public plaza and new CTA bus stop.</p><p>Chicago-based Kurv Industrial, formerly Bridge Industrial, plans to demolish Ford City Mall and build a four-building<a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2025/07/16/ford-city-mall-losing-shoppers-bridge-industrial-evolution" > industrial campus</a>. The project will be considered by the Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday.</p><p>Kurv’s plans submitted to the Plan Commission show a new Ford City heritage plaza that celebrates “over 80 years of Chicago history,” with landscaping and seating.
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