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How Big Car Collective Is Walking The Tightrope In Garfield Park As the neighborhood begins to thrive, the group hopes to avoid the gentrification that has followed artists everywhere else they have gone. November 28, 2020 The Asad family lives in one of Big Car Collaborative’s Garfield Park homes. “There’s a lot of opportunity here,” says Bashiri Asad (second from left). “Why not give it a shot?”Photo by Tony Valainis Were it not for Big Car Collaborative’s track record, their plans for the Garfield Park area might sound a tad grandiose. Maybe even nuts. Until recently, the near-southside neighborhood was known almost as much for its abandoned buildings as the green space for which it is named. Crime rates were high and rents were low. But Jim Walker and his wife Shauta Marsh, cofounders of Big Car, saw potential in the place. And where the leaders of that community arts group see promise, good things usually happen. The two were instrumental in Fountain Square�

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