Sourced from the Chicago Sun Times
A large-scale urban farming campus that promises to bring jobs, fresh food and renewable energy to Chicago’s South Side is getting a financial boost from the state.
Green Era Renewable Energy and Urban Farming Campus will receive $2 million from the state through Rebuild Illinois — a program giving grants for infrastructure development in distressed areas.
That money, along with a $1 million loan from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, allowed Green Era to secure the final bit of funding needed to develop the $32 million project on the 9-acre land that is a brownfield site.
A brownfield is a site that is considered to have hazardous materials or pollutants in the soil and must be remediated before development can take place. Green Era has been cleaning it up over the last several years.
Erika Allen, co-Founder of Green Era, said they have worked to secure funding for the project for almost 10 years and to know by spring 2022 the campus will be fully operational is exciting.
“I’m really excited to have our young people see that their hard work paid off,” Allen said. “Not only will we be providing jobs that will give living wages, but it is reassuring that folks don’t have to leave their community to get a good job.”
Green Era also got a share of the inaugural Chicago Prize, announced on Thursday by the Pritzker Traubert foundation. Splitting that $10 million award with Green Era was a “healthy lifestyle hub” at 79th and Halsted streets.
The Green Era operation, on the northwest corner of 83rd and Wallace streets, is expected to create 240 construction jobs for the development of the campus and 47 permanent jobs for the community with hundreds of other contracting opportunities.
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