Government 5th Ward affordable housing plan gets another look City staff will ask Evanston's Economic Development Committee tonight to approve a proposed partnership of two groups competing to develop a long-vacant city-owned site at 1805 Church St. By Bill Smith on December 2, 2020 - 10:06 am
Government Church wins panel’s backing for housing development The Mt. Pisgah Ministry won backing from members of Evanston's Economic Development Committee Wednesday for its plan to acquire a vacant city-owned lot at 1805 Church St. and build affordable By Bill Smith on June 25, 2020 - 3:31 pm
Government Neighbors knock church plan for affordable housing Leaders of Mt. Pisgah Church came in for a wave of criticism Wednesday night as they presented plans for a new affordable housing development at a 5th Ward meeting at By Bill Smith on January 9, 2020 - 2:19 pm
Government City to seek plans for former gas station site Evanston's Economic Development Committee Thursday evening recommend the City Council direct staff to issue a request for proposals to redevelop the northwest corner of Church Street and Darrow Avenue. The By Bill Smith on December 6, 2019 - 4:20 pm
Government Senior housing suggested as new use for vacant lot Thirteen years after Evanston aldermen bowed to neighbors' objections and killed plans for subsidized housing on a vacant 5th Ward corner, the possibility of another subsidized development at the site By Bill Smith on July 30, 2019 - 9:43 am
Government City to acquire potential affordable housing site Evanston aldermen Monday are scheduled to approve plans for the city to acquire a vacant lot at 1805 Church St. that once was the site of a gas station as By Bill Smith on April 27, 2019 - 3:41 pm
Government Evanston wants to buy abandoned gas station site Evanston aldermen will be asked tonight to give the city manager authority to buy a former gas station site on the west side. The property, at 1801-05 Church Street, a By Bill Smith on June 11, 2012 - 3:01 pm
Business City considers buying failed development site Evanston aldermen tonight are scheduled to vote on buying and demolishing two bank-owned properties that were once part of the site for the rejected Darrow Corners low income housing development. By Bill Smith on June 14, 2010 - 11:13 am
Government Aldermen reject affordable housing plan Evanston aldermen voted 5-4 tonight to reject the Darrow Corners affordable housing development. The project proposed by the Housing Opportunity Development Corporation would have built 27 units of rent-to-own housing By Bill Smith on May 23, 2006 - 2:03 am
Real Estate Aldermen get affordable housing hot potato Evanston aldermen Monday night will face a challenging decision about affordable housing. The affordable housing project would occupy this vacant corner lot that once housed a gas station, and the By Bill Smith on March 26, 2006 - 10:19 pm