I’ve been digging into vacant properties lately. There are properties like Hotel Guyon that have sat vacant for decades, if not over a century. Currently there is a lot of discourse around building more housing, but I think there should be some attention paid to what we can do with the existing building stock to create that housing as well. There’s plenty of research pointing to the importance of repurposing vacant properties. What kind of information might be useful to aid local governments (especially in Chicago) to redevelop those vacant buildings?

chicago computer club, anyone?