Lil Durk’s self-anointment as the “Chicago JAY-Z” had fans questioning whether the Only The Family leader truly believed it. After a recent discovery in his hometown of Chicago, Lil Durk is out to prove the bold claim wasn’t hyperbole.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Parkway Gardens housing complex, a 13-acre campus spread across nearly three dozen buildings, is up for sale. The notorious housing complex is affectionately known as “O’Block” by residents and is the same complex Durk spent his formative years. Once known as the most dangerous block in the city, it’s now a somewhat historical marker thanks to the success of Lil Durk, the late King Von and others.
Upon hearing the news, Durk put the world out, insisting no dollar amount could keep him from buying up his old block.
“I’ll buy it don’t matter how much it is,” he tweeted on Friday (April 30).
Housing broker Affordable Housing Advisors put the sprawling property on the market after another group, Realtor Midwest, initially purchasing the development in 2011. The group utilizing $59.5 million in tax-exempt bonds from the Illinois Housing Development Authority, $28.8 million in Wells Fargo equity from low-income housing tax credits and $9.9 million in historic rehabilitation tax credits. In total, over 3,000 residents fill out the 694 unit housing development.
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Currently, there’s no asking price for Parkway Gardens and current residents are happy the famed O Block may end up in the hands of someone who cares.
“It’s a headache for them. They couldn’t do nothing with it and didn’t want to be made to look bad because they want to continue working with the city, so they’re trying to get rid of it,” Alderman Jeanette Taylor said, noting how the housing development deserves better access to basic social services, repairs and more.
Time will tell if Durk does indeed buy back the block and let “O Block” be the next step in living up to his “Chicago JAY-Z” moniker.
?THAT’ A DAMN GOOD DECISION. GOOD INVESTMENT. DON’T LET THEM DESTROY O BLOCK LIKE THEY DID CABRINI GREEN. YALL NEED TO STAND UP FOR YALL NEIGHBORHOOD. THAT’S WHERE A LOT OF YALL CAME FROM. I’M FROM CABRINI GREEN LIVED THERE OVER 40 YEARS. LIL DURK I LIKE WHAT YOU TRYING TO DO. ?A FAN:PDUB WALKER
Stop shouting Patricia. You illiterate hood rat bitch. They need to tear down that cesspool of violent, murderous lowlives and put up some new condos to gentrify that bitch. That’s what they should do with all of SXS Chicago. Move all of the gangbanger pieces of shit to the suburbs so they aren’t all in a concentrated area. People yell all this BLM shut when more black kids are killed by other black kids in that neighborhood alone. Fuck your crab in a barrel ass mentality. People like you are the reason those kids keep killing, dying and filling our prisons. Dummy.
Have you ever been to the hood? How would you know what it’s like? People talk about black on black violence but nobody talks about white on white violence. What Lil Durk is doing is a good thing. They shouldn’t tear it down because he can make it a better place. And people like you are the reason black people keep dying. You are just assuming things about people you don’t even know and have never cared to know.
@This dummy ^^^
Sorry but he doesn’t have money like that
And what are the plans for it? Make some more trap houses? It’s like buying satin sheets for the old people in the retirement homes. You don’t need to buy a block, you could educate them.
u dont need to be in these comments, educate yoself
It’s a bold idea and needed thought process from the youth. The old heads dropped the ball and started the bullshit facade buying chains and all that luxury garbage to feel important. If this lil man can come up with a plan for the working ppl in that block who need support to get out, he will be a legend in my book.
Think fucking big
chicago jayz? why tf yall gassin this tool up?
shut up boy if u dont like durk stop talkin bout him bitch
The buildings themselves can be dilapidated as hell but when you have the RIGHT people, it wouldn’t be as bad. You can have some beautiful buildings and put in the WRONG people and it’s gna be a rat and crime infested siht hole in no time. It’s THE PEOPLE in them, not the actual buildings LOLLL.
Facts playa.
hey this is a good thing to do.
These comments just show the idiocracy and how judgemental the people of our country are.. Make more trap houses??? I guess the trucking business he started and runs is just to move guns and drugs then huh??? And he don’t have the money?? How the fuck would you know?? That man probably has more money than you’re entire family line has EVER had… Can’t anyone ever just be happy and accept that someone actually cares about where they came from.. And oh yeah lets move all the gangbangers to suburbs!!! You sound stupid as fuck. Its an AFFORDABLE LIVINGNG complex.. Do you think if they replaced it with fucking condos the cost of rent and such are jua gonna stay the same?? No its gonna raise therefore making it harder for those 3,000 residents to maintain rent!!! Thats just your fucking privileged entitlement speaking. Props Durkio.. I hope you get it and i hope you make it bloom into better living for those that come from there.