Chicago Public Radio
Cuisine of the Diaspora
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November 27, 2009
Chicago Tribune
Bronzeville developer cooks up culinary oasis
Community activist says a taste for ethnic cuisine will give 51st Street a boost
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November 25, 2009
Lakefront Outlook
Bernard Loyd’s big idea on 51st
Entrepreneur plans 5-restaurant complex
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November 12, 2009
Chicago Real Estate Daily
Bronzeville TIF
Panel backs TIF grant for Bronzeville project
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November 11, 2009
Chicago Public Radio
Food Options Coming to Bronzeville
The City of Chicago Community Development Commission is giving the green light
on a project that would create food opportunities in Bronzeville
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November 10, 2009
City of Chicago Department of Community Development
Restaurants on the menu for Bronzeville site
Community Development Commission gives go-ahead for "Bronzeville Cooking" proposal
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November 5, 2009
Chicago Real Estate Daily
McKinsey vet seeks TIF to get project cookin’
A former McKinsey & Co. partner who worked with food industry clients hopes to land a $3-million city subsidy for his plan to provide better restaurants and produce in the Bronzeville neighborhood.
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Leaders of Color
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Bernard
Loyd
Partner
McKinsey & Company
Mr. Loyd was born in one of Chicago’s most distressed neighborhoods on
the West Side. By age eight, he lived in Germany and Liberia. After high school
he returned to the U.S. to study engineering and management.
Says Loyd, “I’ve always felt very fortunate for the opportunities
that I received and feel obligated to give back to the communities that nurtured
me.”
Perhaps one of his most life-changing moves, however, occurred many years
later -- after becoming one of the few African Americans working at McKinsey
in 1990.
“I was a consultant serving Caucasian clients, largely. And I lived in
Lincoln Park. I felt a disconnect between what I was experiencing and what
was happening in the African American community.”
That’s when Mr. Loyd took action. He moved to Bronzeville, to be able
to participate in rebuilding the predominantly African American community.
And he decided to help other African Americans break into the white collar
world of McKinsey by forming the Black Client Service Staff affinity group,
which focuses on the recruitment and retention of African American consultants.
“Corporations with strong cultures have sharply-defined pictures of success
to which they compare candidates. These pictures are difficult to apply to
different groups,” explains Loyd. “We helped translate those models,
so McKinsey could better assess
non-traditional candidates. We worked hard to create a critical mass of Black
consultants and changed the firm’s culture and expectations around diversity.”
Mr. Loyd reports he is leaving McKinsey & Company at the end of October
to focus on economic development of inner-city areas.
