The city of Chicago on Thursday announced plans for a new CTA Green Line "L" station at Damen Avenue and Lake Street near the United Center to serve a growing residential and business area.
The new station will fill a 1.1-mile gap between existing Green Line stations at California and Ashland avenues. In a statement, the city said the new station will improve public transit for businesses in the Kinzie Corridor, for tenants of the Chicago Housing Authority’s Village of Westhaven complex and other residents, as well as for sports fans coming to the United Center for Blackhawks and Bulls games.
The station is expected to be complete in 2020, with construction starting in the third quarter of 2018 and design and engineering work starting this summer, according to the city.
Other "in-fill" stations, the term for stations that close gaps between existing ones, were built at Morgan and Lake streets on the Green and Pink lines in 2012 and Cermak-McCormick Place on the Green Line in 2015.
"As we’ve seen many times, investment in new and improved CTA stations pays great dividends for communities across the city," CTA President Dorval Carter said in a statement.
The project will be funded by the Kinzie Industrial Corridor tax increment financing district. The exact cost of the new station was not immediately available; the Cermak-McCormick Place station cost $50 million.
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