Mr. Peter Levavi

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  Most likely we'll get them by spring of next year and break ground in June or July," said Peter Levavi, Brinshore Development senior vice president, who attended Thursday's city hall announcement.

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  Peter Levavi, Senior Vice PresidentBrinshore Development, LLC
  
  Mr. Levavi has twenty years of real estate experience working as a developer, attorney, broker and finance professor.In his role at Brinshore, Mr. Levavi coordinates the redevelopment activities for mixed income public housing redevelopments.Responsibilities include coordinating architectural design and site planning; maintaining communication with residents, community and public agencies; obtaining land use approvals; securing and closing financing; monitoring construction; fulfilling compliance requirements and asset management.
  
  Mr. Levavi holds a license to practice law in Illinois and New York, and a broker's license in Illinois.He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the housing committee of the Metropolitan Planning Council and Lambda Alpha.
  
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  Known as the "Catskills of the Midwest" in the 1920s, it had two synagogues (it's now down to one) and gave Jewish people "a long-term tie to South Haven and Union Pier," says Peter Levavi, senior vice-president of Brinshore Development LLC.

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  Peter Levavi, Brinshore Development, L.L.C.
  
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  You're at a party, and you see it's a great apartment, and you ask, 'What did you pay for it?' It's a point of pride for New Yorkers to explain the deal they got," says Peter Levavi, 44, an attorney and senior vice-president of Northbrook-based Brinshore Development LLC.
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  Mr. Levavi was surprised, upon moving to Chicago, to find that neighbors never asked him what he paid , but when he met them, they clearly already knew.
  
  "They thanked us for overpaying for the house because it raised property values on the block," he says.

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  I called Interstate Realty, the firm contracted by CHA to manage Robert Taylor, and spoke to Peter Levavi, a developer with Brinshore-Michaels, the company contracted to build the new mixed-income community on the ground where Robert Taylor now stands.
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  Levavi confirmed the story provided by residents as well as Commonwealth Edison: CHA never installed the meters or registered the residents in the units they rehabbed in 1998.
  
  Levavi said the problem may even be larger than the Cluster.Levavi gave me many numbers to call, including Interstate's main office in New Jersey.

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  "If anything, it's just an emphasis on trying to get the deals moving," said Peter Levavi, of Brinshore Development, which is working on the Robert Taylor and Henry Horner homes."They're being wise about their resources."
  
  The approach already is bearing some fruit.
  
  For example, the CHA plans to speed up redevelopment of 760 units at Horner.In 2002, construction on almost 1,000 new public housing units is expected to begin.At the same time, the CHA expects to finish renovating 4,500 senior units and 1,100 scattered site apartments.

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  At the introductory panel, Peter Levavi, senior vice president of Brinshore development in Northbrook, told the audience of developers and housing advocates that if communities "set the table for the developers, they will come in and do their work."
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  Levavi recommended that in Humboldt Park, land must be cleared to develop new affordable housing.He suggested a citywide strategy to improve city programs, with commitments to involvement from the mayor, aldermen and the Department of Housing.Because of the prohibitively expensive land in Highland Park, there will be no affordable housing unless the city takes extraordinary measures.The community needs creative resources for financing and a unified stand by the Housing Commission.Finally, Levavi noted, for Hanover Park, in the central downtown, land must be cleaned, cleared and zoned properly.Tax Increment Financing (TIF) should be used for infrastructure costs.He suggested the city send out separate Requests for Proposals for different components of the project.

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  "If anything, it's just an emphasis on trying to get the deals moving," said Peter Levavi, of Brinshore Development, which is working on the Robert Taylor and Henry Horner homes."They're being wise about their resources."
  
  The approach already is bearing some fruit.

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  Peter Levavi, vice president of Brinshore Development,and MPC Housing Committee member; and
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  Carl Byrd, Joseph Williams, Don Carter, Peter Levavi and Shirley Newsome
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  Brinshore Development's Peter Levavi summarized three components of architecture and design of mixed-income communities based on lessons the company has learned: the decision-making process, macro-planning, and micro-planning. He reiterated the importance of community participation for legitimacy and support, but stated it is difficult to get "real, important and meaningful input" for a couple of reasons. Many people have pressing concerns or grievances that need to be addressed before they can focus on community planning. In addition, most are ill-equipped to have a technical discussion about architecture. To remedy this reality, Brinshore uses Image Preference Surveys to solicit public input through a series of slides that are ranked by participants on a scale of 1 to 5 according to their desirability. After the initial survey, a new slide show is created and the images are ranked again. Levavi commented that these surveys show "how much shared vision there really is between income groups."
  
  For site planning and building design, Levavi recommended a few best practices, including: creating solid streetwalls, i.e., avoiding gaps between buildings that become no man's territory; designing buildings that face the street so people can see what's going on from their homes; rearranging Chicago's typically narrow residential lots in a creative manner to provide private outdoor space; and including diverse residential designs by using a team of architects instead of just one firm.
  
  In his experience, Levavi said backyards attached to individual units work better than large, communal areas of open space because they promote each resident's sense of ownership. A variety of building designs help create a sense of uniqueness and attachment to units and buildings. Levavi also stressed the concepts of universal design to accommodate the needs of diverse households and green initiatives for energy-efficient plans that contribute to sustainability while reducing utility bills - a significant expense, especially for low-income residents. He acknowledged that public housing redevelopment can be "fantastically expensive," but explained the task of building mixed-income communities is an "iterative process in which we learn more from each development."
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  Levavi said he does not consider making market-rate and subsidized homes indistinguishable a challenge, but acknowledged that "the bar has been raised for rental units in mixed-income communities. Amenities such as dishwashers and washer/dryer hookups are expected. He also said market-rate and affordable housing renters often have lower expectations than public housing residents in terms of room size, and it has been more of a challenge to attract public housing renters to the new homes than market-rate or affordable renters.

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