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City Agency to Buy Land for Affordable Housing

The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency board has agreed to buy a Winnetka property from a partnership that includes a nonprofit corporation whose president is Harbor Commissioner James Acevedo.

The panel voted Thursday to purchase nearly 1 acre for up to $1.9 million to build affordable housing. The partnership shelved a similar development for the site.

Acevedo’s corporation, Neighborhood Empowerment and Economic Development Inc., also is involved with another property that is being sold to remedy a default on a city loan.

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