Chicago Ave.įor years, the Comer Education Campus has supported South Side youth as they traversed through school and extracurricular activities, Emmerman said. “We’re a deserving community like every other one, and we think this is a winning formula to change the equation.” Credit: Provided A rendering of Xchange Grand Crossing at 7301 S. “We view the Xchange model as a new way of doing business that creates more opportunities for diverse talent, wealth building, commercial growth and community impact on the South Side,” Emmerman said. If all goes as planned, the center could open to welcome a new generation of tech leaders as soon as January 2025, Emmerman said. The site is “shovel ready” as the Xchange team continues to raise funding for the development. The $5 million grant “supercharged the capital campaign” to build the workforce project, Emmerman said.Īs a 2022 finalist for the Chicago Prize, the project also received a $500,000 grant from We Rise Together, a program created by the Chicago Community Trust in 2020, and is eligible for a donation match from the Pritzker Traubert Foundation, Emmerman said. Local community partners - including CHAMPS Male Mentoring, Ring of Hope, Network for Young Adult Success, Community Neighborhood Initiatives and more - joined forces with the campus for one of the “biggest, all-hands-on-deck projects to date,” Emmerman said. The $27 million project is the “extension of decades of community development that the Comer Foundation has done in Grand Crossing,” Emmerman said. will train and employ neighbors interested in jobs in the tech industry.īitwise Industries, a California-based company that “builds tech economies in underestimated cities,” will be the anchor tenant of the building, said Emily Emmerman, special projects director.
The 50,000-square-foot hub at 7301 South Chicago Ave. Leaders at the Comer Education Campus received a $5 million community development grant from the city this month to build Xchange Grand Crossing. GREATER GRAND CROSSING - A workforce development center that will fuel the next generation of tech leaders could soon open in Greater Grand Crossing, creating a “beacon of innovation and impact” on the South Side, project leaders said.
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