DAY FIFTY EIGHT: Good To Know Someone Found A Use For This Building

DAY 58: good to know someone found a use for this building
Originally uploaded by displaced365.

This building in Logan Square sits on a prime piece of real estate. It's actually right across the street from the park itself and the Logan Square blue line stop.

And yet, for some reason, it's been vacant for quite some time. It's not a vacant building, there just hasn't been many people wanting to lease the space.

For the longest time it was a Mexican restaurant but it couldn't compete with the four others in a two block area and shut down. Next it was pretty much gutted and turned into a used clothing boutique.

Now, in theory with the neighborhood, this should have thrived. But it didn't. It pretty much shut down in the blink of a hipster's eye.

Since then, no one's been there. At least until election season. I think this was one of the upstart candidate's office space for the election. Unless he or she won, it's probably going to be deserted again tomorrow.

Most of the signs in the window are for Dorothy Brown - one of the two people on the ballot against Mayor Daley.

NOTE: February 27, 2007 post to Project 365