Chicago State University has issued a call for developers to build a half-mile of student housing and retail stores along 95th Street, on the campus’ north edge.

Dubbed University Village 95, the 2,300-student university seeks to build 232,000 square feet of new construction and green space on a two-acre lot between Cottage Grove and St. Lawrence avenues. The land is mostly trees and access roads to the university’s parking lots.

If realized, the development would be a possible game-changer for Chicago State, primarily a commuter university largely secreted on a wooded 161-acre campus at 95th Street and South Martin Luther King Drive.

“Our goal is to build a campus town kind of experience for the South Side,” CSU President Zaldwaynaka Scott said. “If you look at what the University of C

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