Help Decide How to Develop Bloom Plaza on Dixie Highway

Day care center, city garden, community park.

Those were some of the ideas Bloom High School students had for Bloom Plaza, a vacant area west of the school near Skyline Restaurant on Dixie Highway.

The nearly 12-acre property once had a small strip mall that housed a Jewel grocery as well as smaller businesses, such as a shoe repair shop and a dry cleaning service.

All that is gone now, and in collaboration with University of Illinois at Chicago and Kansas State University, the City of Chicago Heights is looking for ideas for how to redevelop the area.

Students from will be at the event presenting their ideas, but the organizer of the event, Dave Santori, is inviting all Heights residents and business owners to join in.

The "Community Visioning Session" is taking place at the City Hall Council Chambers at 7 p.m. on July 10. Attendees will work in groups of six to eight people to come up with ideas for how the plaza should be developed.

At the end of the session, participants will have five minutes to present their ideas. All attendees will then come to a consensus on the top priorities for development. 

The session is expected to wrap up around 9 p.m.

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