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Greater Southwest Development Corporation
Improving the quality of life in Southwest Chicago
About Greater Southwest Development Corporation
We are a team of passionate advocates, resources, and powerbrokers. Staff members are former business owners, individuals with decades of economic development experience, parents, children and residents of the South and Southwest Side of Chicago. We work in service of a multicultural, prosperous and economically vibrant southwest Chicago, one rooted in social justice and racial equity. Together with the community, we strive to build generational, inclusive and sustainable wealth on Chicago’s southwest side. Our vision: A thriving Southwest Chicago community Our mission: To be a catalyst for creating and maintaining a vital Southwest Chicago community by empowering, building and sustaining development that raises the quality of life for our neighborhood residents, businesses and industries. Through collective effort and lots of hard work, we have managed to make improvements throughout the organization that will position us for a brighter future. This year alone, GSDC has worked with more than 1,800 business owners affected by the pandemic to secure $4.2M in emergency funds, engaged with 124 community residents on foreclosure prevention and rental assistance counseling, and continued to provide safe affordable housing for 250 seniors. In particular, our senior building staff has worked tirelessly to make sure that our seniors are safe and comfortable given all that is happening around them.
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Greater Southwest Development Corporation welcomed Daniel Tollefson, Executive Director of the Resilient Chicago Fund, to the Southwest Economic Summit on September 10.
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Greater Southwest Development Corporation welcomed David G., Dean of Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing at Richard J. Daley College to the Southwest Economic Summit on September 10.
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Greater Southwest Development Corporation is hosting a SW26 event on Thursday, September 10 at Richard J. Daley College at 7500 S. Pulaski Rd, Chicago, IL 60652.
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Greater Southwest Development Corporation welcomed Michael Yucuis, Northeast Region Economic Development Manager for the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, to the Southwest Economic Summit on September 10.
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Greater Southwest Development Corporation welcomed MANNY FLORES, President and CEO of SomerCor to the Southwest Economic Summit on September 10.
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Greater Southwest Development Corporation welcomed Joshua Grodzin, CEcD at the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center to the Southwest Economic Summit on September 10.
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Greater Southwest Development Corporation welcomed Dan Zarco, President and CEO of Arcorp Structures, LLC, to the Southwest Economic Summit on September 10.
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Greater Southwest Development Corporation is hosting a SW26 event to showcase upcoming initiatives and activities.
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Greater Southwest Development Corporation welcomed Dr. Isaac Zuniga, Ed.D., President of Richard J. Daley College to the Southwest Economic Summit on September 10.
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