CHICAGO (CBS) — For years, students at one high school in Chicago's Austin neighborhood walked past an empty dirt lot on their way to class. That lot is now a state-of-the-art turf football ...

Two years ago, before it even had a name, the Alum Rock Foodie Lot in East San Jose was little more than an empty expanse of dirt. Even back then, with only a taco stand and a food truck ...

There are locations the city owns that are little more than dirt lots, which Cofer describes as vacant parklands that are basically empty lots, or, as she has called them, “pre-parks.” ...