Residents, gathered across from New Sullivan Elementary School, said elected officials haven\u2019t done enough to inform neighbors about the development. They also expressed concerns over a lack of transparency,<\/a> potential displacement and environmental concerns at the site.<\/p>\n Southside Together wants officials to rehabilitate the fallow land and invest in resources the community wants and needs.<\/p>\n Ariena Blackman, member of Southside Together and a South Chicago resident, said she didn\u2019t learn about the IQMP until a month ago. When Blackman heard about the 128-acre project, she said she \u201ccouldn\u2019t fathom it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEven though the facility would be built right across from where I live, nobody behind it \u2014 like the alderman or even the governor \u2014 have done anything to spread awareness about what\u2019s coming to the community,\u201d Blackman said. \u201cI feel like it was very intentional and purposefully done in that way. If this is something good, they would actually want us to talk about it. They would actually want us to know about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Developer Related Midwest and Mayor Brandon Johnson\u2019s office didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n The IQMP has held at least five community meetings since the project was proposed. The latest recorded community meeting on the development\u2019s website<\/a> is from March.<\/p>\n Other activist groups, such as the Coalition for South Works CBA and the Alliance of the Southeast, have held their own meetings<\/a> to raise community awareness and gather feedback.<\/p>\n The quantum campus will sit on the southern end of the former South Works site, which shuttered in 1992. The land has sat vacant ever since. The northern end of the site will be anchored by a new Advocate Health Care<\/a> hospital.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rendering of PsiQuantum\u2019s facility at the former South Works site, which will have the country\u2019s first utility-scale quantum computer.<\/p>\n What Blackman and other Southside Together members would rather see are new businesses and other resources like pharmacies and grocery stores. Walgreens closed some of its South Side locations<\/a> in early 2025, leaving some South Chicago residents without a nearby pharmacy.<\/p>\n Blackman also pointed to vacant lots and abandoned buildings in the neighborhood, saying taxpayer dollars for the IQMP could instead help redevelop those sites.<\/p>\n \u201cWe envision institutions that can be beneficial to the people who are here,\u201d Southside Together member and Calumet Heights resident Yaa Angie Orokos said. \u201cWe envision investment grants right into the individuals and the community members who are here \u2014 grocery stores, hospitals, pharmacies. Walgreens just left out of this community. Our elders don\u2019t have a pharmacy to go to to get that medication.\u201d<\/p>\n Sanya Bhartiya, environmental justice organizer with Southside Together, said the organization would be open to new development as long as the land is remediated, and it doesn\u2019t become a quantum computing campus.<\/p>\n![\"Rendering](\"https:\/\/cst.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/7c047cf\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5100x3048+0+0\/resize\/840x502!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc3%2F31%2F695cd5474e2ba47ad4f358c118fe%2Fpsiquantum-iqmp-2.png\")
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