As children played and people lined up at food trucks during a block party on Skokie’s Main Street June 14, village of Skokie officials presented the first draft of plans for reviving the corridor’s vibrance for residents and businesses.
The village got involved after neighbors in the Main and Keystone area started staging neighborhood gatherings, called Meet Up on Main, in a bid to turn empty storefronts into thriving businesses that would help foster a social space and a sense of community.
Village officials released renderings of a future Main Street corridor, between about Crawford Avenue and Tripp Avenue, with a focus on community and economic redevelopment. While those renderings aren’t finalized proposals, they are meant to give residents a chance to look at what the village is thinking of for the corridor, according to the village’s Director of Economic Development, Johanna Nyden…