It’s never, like, my intent to offend anybody.” But disseminating such toxic messages about manhood and identity makes the artist suspicious. It’s like you want people to feel a certain way. it is me singing the words it is my writing. In an interview with Esquire, as the magazine’s September cover star, the singer revealed: “It’s definitely a character. Credit: UrbanWorks Architecture A rendering showing the inside of the arts building.When called out for his tendency to spew misogyny in his music and his inability to refrain from calling women bitches all the time, The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, has defended his lyrical content by claiming that in his songs, he’s portraying a character: The two people (The Weeknd, the musician and Abel Tesfaye, the man behind the art) are separate, and as such, any toxic behavior he brags about ought to be attributed to his persona and not the singer himself.
Every dime we make funds reporting from Chicago’s neighborhoods.Īlready subscribe? Click here to support Block Club with a tax-deductible donation. The project comes as gentrification-fueled displacement has increased in Humboldt Park, in part due to The 606’s Bloomingdale Trail. But the five-story building will bring new life to Paseo Boricua, which hasn’t seen much new construction in recent years. Neither Maldonado nor Brinshore representatives responded to requests for comment this week. It is unclear when the project is expected to be complete. Last year, Mayor Lori Lightfoot introduced an ordinance allowing suburban-based developer Brinshore to use $12 million in tax-exempt housing bonds, double what was previously approved. The project received a huge boost in 2018, when it was awarded $4.25 million in tax-increment finance dollars. The site was previously home to the Ashland Sausage Company. At the time, Maldonado called the project “a major step in trying to commercially and culturally anchor our community as it faces the onslaught of an ever-encroaching gentrification process which seeks to erase our historical memory from the Greater Humboldt Park community.” The project first surfaced in 2014 as part of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center’s plan to preserve and support the Puerto Rican community in Humboldt Park. Division St.Ĭonstruction this week marks the official start of the project, which has been in the works for seven years. Credit: UrbanWorks Architecture A rendering of the project at 2709-15 W. The apartments will be marketed to artists and their families, though anyone who qualifies will be eligible to rent them, the development team has said. Above the theater will be 24 affordable apartments reserved for people earning between 30 and 60 percent of the area median income. The ground-floor will house a 99-seat theater leased by a local group and two retail spaces. Roberto Maldonado’s late wife, Nancy, who conceived of the project. Franco Maldonado Paseo Boricua Arts Building after 26th Ward Ald. The development, funded by tax-increment finance dollars and tax-exempt housing bonds, will be called the Nancy Y.
to make way for a 5-story affordable housing complex with a ground-floor theater, a project years in the making. HUMBOLDT PARK - Construction is underway on the long-planned affordable housing arts building on Humboldt Park’s Division Street.Ĭrews this week started tearing down the existing buildings at 2709-15 W.
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