Peoria South Side

Two Peoria organizations are working together on an initiative to boost home ownership possibilities for low-income households on the city’s South Side, with financial assistance from the health department.

A long-sought rehabilitation of one of Peoria’s major South Side roadways will get underway in the next few weeks.

After more than three years in planning, an affordable housing project for seniors 55 and over is on its way to Peoria’s near South Side, tabbed as a key piece of the MacArthur Corridor Revitalization.

The head of a relatively new Peoria nonprofit hopes a state grant of close to $1 million will spark investor interest in a proposed affordable housing development with a clean energy component on the city’s South Side.

After several years in the making, the South Side Mission’s new thrift store in Peoria’s 61605 neighborhood is now open.

The City of Peoria will receive almost $500,000 more in state grant funding for a program to demolish abandoned, vacant and unsafe houses on the city’s South Side.

A grocery store planned for Peoria’s South Side neighborhood is scheduled to open this summer after more than 3 1/2 years of planning.

Work is underway on the $18 million Churchview Garden Homes affordable housing development that will feature 47 units across seven new buildings on the South Side of Peoria.

A one-of-a-kind chemical processing company will move its operations from Nebraska to Peoria’s South Side after agreeing to a range of conditions to address economic and environmental concerns.

Habitat for Humanity Greater Peoria Area will get nearly $1 million to build several new single-family, affordable housing residences on the site of the former McKinley Elementary School.