December 2021 Newsletter
PARTIAL WIN: $1.5 Million Stabilization Effort Stock Yards Bank Building Complete, but Comprehensive Restoration and Reuse Remain Elusive
The Stock Yards Bank Building, A Back Of The Yards Cornerstone, Is Ready For An Overhaul 50 Years After It Closed; The Stockyard Bank...
PARTIAL WIN: Pilgrim Baptist Church Receives $200k Stabilization Grant from the Chicago Adopt-A-Landmark Fund
Historic Walls, But Far More Needed For Rebuild; The landmark Adler & Sullivan-designed building at 3301 S. Indiana Ave. burned in 2006 and partially...
WIN: After Six Years, Goldblatt Building Window Renovation Finally Nearing Completion
After 6 Years Of Scaffolding, Window Work At Goldblatt’s Building Might Finally Be Finished SoonA scaffolding canopy lining the ground floor of the Goldblatt's...
WIN: Englewood Fire House to be Restored by INVEST South/West Program
Business Hubs, Housing And Public Plazas: Developers Make Their Pitches For 2nd Phase Of Englewood Square; Four proposals center around repurposing the former firehouse...
WIN: Adaptive Reuse of the Jewel Laundry Building Completed
Historic Rogers Park building to be preserved and expanded into apartments, Jay Koziarz, Curbed Chicago, 11/22/17
WIN: Chicago Vocational High School Alumni Launch Effort to Landmark and Restore School Building and to Reestablish the once Vibrant Vocational Programs
Could preserving school’s regal architecture help CVS regain status as ‘the pride of the South Side’? Some grads of Chicago Vocational High School say...
WIN: Adaptive Reuse Project Completed at Sears on Lawrence (Chicago 7 2016)
Adaptive Reuse Project Completed at Sears’ First Ground-Up Store, Paul Bubny, ConnectCRE News, 3/5/21
WIN: Renovation Underway for Long Stalled IIT Main Building Adaptive Reuse (Chicago 7 2015)
Plan to turn historic Armour Building into apartments gets city boost, The Community Development Commission OK'd $5.5 million in TIF money for the near...
WIN: Despite Continued Aldermanic Delays, Obsidian Collection Pushes Forward with Purchase and Restoration of Palmer Mansion (Chicago 7 2017)
Obsidian Collection buys Lu Palmer Mansion at $1.25 M, now needs zoning change; On April 22, Angela Ford of The Obsidian Collection closed on...
POTENTIAL WIN: Increased Support For Central Park Theater Restoration (Chicago 7 2012)
The push to rehab this historic Chicago theater is gaining renewed traction; The latest effort to save Balaban & Katz's first movie palace in...