A Chicago developer is teeing up a 73,500-square-foot shopping center on the Southwest Side, another example of how retail builders are focusing on places with high population densities…

…First American’s site “is not a true gentrification area, but in today’s day and age, people are developing in high-income or high-density areas, or both. This certainly fits into the high-density play,” said Robert Melsher, principal at Highland Park-based Metro Commercial Real Estate Inc.

Crain’s Chicago Business // Micah Maidenberg // View the Full Article