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WATCH: Transwestern’s JC Griffin on South Side’s Promise

Walk through the history of Jackson Park and why nearby real estate markets may not be so different from affluent Lincoln Park on the North Side

Think of Lincoln Park and what it means to developments in the lakefront communities on the North Side. Then think of Jackson Park, and its role on the South Side.

JC Griffin, vice president of Transwestern Real Estate Services’ Midwest Capital Markets Group in Chicago, has given a lot of thought about what the similarities — and disparities — connected to those two book-end public amenities say about real estate in the city.

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He gets into that along with the pending potential of the Obama Presidential Center, the $895 million Woodlawn Central project Griffin was hired to manage by its developer J. Byron Brazier, and other aspects of the development potential of the South Side in a wide-ranging conversation with The Real Deal’s National Managing Editor Jerry Sullivan.

And it starts with a walk back in history to the famous 1893 World’s Fair, hosted in Jackson Park.

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