• City staff will work with community members to recommend one community owner to the City Council and the Mayor.
• The Mayor and City Council will make the final selection of the future community owner.
• The selected owner, community, and City staff will work together to shape the future of the site.

• We encouraged all community members to be part of engagement events in 2024.
• Some events included discussion on community priorities for the Peoples' Way.
• We included the community's priorities in a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to choose a community owner.
• The RFQ is a way for the City to ask interested group to apply to the City to become the future community owner.
• We issued the RFQ in November 2024. The City and community members are discussing who will be the future property owner.

In June 2023, the City:

• Completed its due diligence
• Purchased the property

Listening sessions

• Read the Speedway gas station learning table notes
• Read about 38th & Chicago Re-envisioned

City Council actions

In November, the City Council approved:

• The purchase of the site
• An environmental investigation of the site

You can see documentation of these actions in our Legislative Information Management System (LIMS).

• City Council approves purchase of 3744 Chicago Ave
• City Council approves Right of Entry to access 3744 Chicago Ave to perform environmental investigations