Ford City Mall Development, Francis Parker Expansion, Other Projects OK’d By Key City Panel
Despite pushback from some neighbors, Ford City Mall is slated to become an industrial campus, while the private Francis Parker school is set to add an educational building. A Northwestern Medicine hospital tower was also advanced.
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