Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Alderman Edward M. Burke and Chicago Park District CEO & General Superintendent Michael Kelly announced plans to relocate the Chicago Park District headquarters from its current Streeterville location to Brighton Park. Not only will the relocated headquarters move approximately 200 existing Park District jobs to Brighton Park, the new facility will include new recreational assets for the neighborhood, which is in desperate need of open space. With an open space need of 66.68 acres, Brighton Park ranks among the top five park deficient communities in Chicago. The proposed 17-acre site, located at 4800 S. Western Ave., would offer administrative office space, a field house, playground, spray pool and three artificial turf fields to meet the community’s growing interest in soccer. Currently, Kelly Park is the only regulation sized soccer field in the area. In 2015, the Chicago Park District sold its 110,000 square foot headquarters to Northwestern Hospital for $22.5 million and negotiated a three-year lease for the agency.  The Park District will issue an RFP to design, build and finance the new headquarters in the coming months. The site of the new headquarters is accessible via public transportation through the #48, #49, and #94 CTA bus routes as well the Western Orange line CTA train stop located at 49th Street and Western Avenue.