I feel the Grand stop environment has heavy emphasis on the nightlife, shopping and tourist activity. I could aggregate events and deals going on in the area at the bars and restaurants, but then I feel it’s too much like Metromix. Here are my following observations in hopes to find some inspiration; House of Blues, AMC theatre, Merchandise Mart, the Public House, Rockit, Sunda, Gilt bar, Xoco, hotels, Bloomingdales and the Trump Tower.
My Grand page is going to have to consist of lifestyle content—it’s inevitable. I hope maybe to do a feature on restaurateur Billy Dec, who owns Sunda and Rockit.
I haven’t been able to physically visit the Sox/35th area (recently), but it’s quite obvious that U.S. Cellular field and the White Sox have some sort of an effect on the area. I hope to do a news story on businesses and their profits during the baseball season and when it is not baseball season. I don’t know if that will be the exact story, but I want to cover something that shows dependency on the baseball season or something with a drastic change once the season is over.
Chicago Transit Authority’s (CTA) bus tracker site is the highest viewed website in Chicago, so it’s obviously providing a service people need. So with this, I just continue to brainstorm on how people could use our site or create a need to read our content on the Red Line Project.
