Kinzie Industrial Corridor Multiple Property Evaluation and Design Guidelines
- Preservation Planning
- Civic
- Cultural Resources
- Urban Planning
As part of the Kinzie Industrial Corridor Framework Plan under Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Industrial Corridor Modernization, McGuire Igleski prepared a Multiple Property Evaluation (MPE) Report for the Kinzie Industrial Corridor. The project included a resource survey of over 800 properties in the corridor, including historic research on each property and evaluation of National Register of Historic Places and City of Chicago Landmark eligibility. Upon completion of the survey, McGuire Igleski prepared a report that described the survey area and methodology, historic narrative, architectural description of the built environment, and recommendations for the preservation of the corridor.
McGuire Igleski also prepared design guidelines for the Kinzie Industrial Corridor Framework Plan. The purpose of the guidelines is to support and supplement the recommendations of the framework’s three primary goals: Growth and economic health, transportation, and character. The guidelines facilitate the implementation of the recommendations while allowing flexibility and collaboration between private development and the public review process. The guidelines support the achievement of these goals through best practices in design.
View the Kinzie Industrial Corridor Framework Plan here.
Chicago, Illinois
City of Chicago
704 acres, 811 buildings
Site Design Group, Ltd.
Located in the Near West Side Community Area, the Kinzie Industrial Corridor is one of Chicago’s first industrial areas. Development was spurred by the arrival of Chicago’s first railroad and its first stockyards in 1848. The area began to develop as an industrial district near the end of the nineteenth century with development accelerating during World War I. National industrial companies that established plants in the corridor included firms like the Heinz Company, Dixie-Vortex Company, and Kraft Foods Company. Today, the Kinzie Industrial Corridor remains a hub for manufacturing and industry, representing Chicago’s industrial heritage alongside buildings reminiscent of the area’s origins as the oldest neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. The built environment of the Kinzie Industrial Corridor represents the initial development and the area’s transition from a residential to an industrial and manufacturing center between the late 1880s and the present day.