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...

