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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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