December 2023 Newsletter

WIN: Adaptive Reuse of Closed Former Emmet Elementary School Receives Funding

Aspire Center Breaks Ground With Promise Of Bringing Work Training, Business Development To Austin; The center will be at the former Emmet Elementary School,...

POTENTIAL WIN: Adaptive Reuse Proposal Received for Pike House/Watchman’s Residence

Can Beverly’s Pike House Be Saved? Arts Alliance Aims To Turn Historical Site Into Headquarters; The late-19th century home has been vacant for years....

POTENTIAL WIN: After Suspected Arson, 6540 N. Glenwood Could be Redeveloped With Additional Affordable Rental Units

Rogers Park Building, Damaged In Fire, Could Be Redeveloped With Added Affordable Units; The building was set ablaze by a disgruntled tenant in 2021...

WIN: Rooftop Addition Adds Density Without Demolition to Fulton Market Loft Buildings

Developer plans residential addition at 167 N. Racine; The mixed-use building will get eight new apartments, Lukas Kugler, Urbanize Chicago, 9/12/23 Fulton Market...

POTENTIAL WIN: Developer Proposes Affordable Housing Adaptive Reuse of Art Deco Lincoln Trust & Savings Bank Building

Community reacts to development at 3950 N. Damen and 3959 N. Lincoln; The historic bank will be rehabbed and a 7-story building will...

WIN: Former Goldblatt Brothers Building Invest South/West Adaptive Reuse to Anchor Back-of-the-Yards Revitalization at 47th and Ashland

Massive Back Of The Yards Project Gets $5 Million In TIF Funding; The money will support the $58 million United Yards project, bringing...

WIN: Permits Issued for Adaptive Reuse of St. James Methodist Church at 4601-4611 S. Ellis

Permits issued for adaptive reuse at 4601 S. Ellis; The former church will be turned into housing, Lukas Kugler, Urbanize Chicago, 2/25/23

WIN: Former St. Bartholomew School to House Migrants

Several hundred migrants to be housed at former Saint Bartholomew School and parish convent on Northwest Side, Brian Nadig, Nadig Newspapers, 12/1/23 Migrant...

WIN: CHA Launches Restore Home to Renovate 36 Small- to Mid-Sized Apartment Buildings

CHA mounts $50 million program to fix up scattered sites; The agency promises to be “laser focused” over the next 18 months on...

WIN: 1516 W. Carroll Avenue Warehouse to Adaptively Reused as Restaurant and Urban Farm

Maxwells Trading, From Acclaimed Chef Erling Wu-Bower, Coming To West Loop; The restaurant in the neighborhood’s industrial corridor will feature a rooftop farm and...