Posted May 30, 2014, 2:43 PM
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^^^ I was just over there in that parking deck above Victorias Secret and the Gap with the awesome views of downtown the other day and was wondering what ever happened to that little blurb. Good to hear, that will just further gridlock that area along with New City physically forcing the area to become more walkable. I still think North and Clyborn will be an area where eventually the market forces get so strong that the auto-centric nature of the place will have to change. If consumers can't even get to your project by car because it's a 24/7 clusterfuck, eventually you are going to decide to cater to pedestrians instead.
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Originally Posted by Skyguy_7
^Another item to throw on your radar- Something is brewing at 840 N Clark, a surface lot. $40 Million project. Walsh is referring to it as "LDS Meetinghouse" but the plans aren't posted yet. This would be directly across the street from the Clark and Chestnut proposal.
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LDS means only one thing: Latter Day Saints. A LDS Meetinghouse basically means a Mormon Church. Despite the peculiarities of their religion, the Mormons are known for throwing down on new construction churches, so we could get a fancy building out of this using real materials and not precast.
Edit: Here's the article from a year ago:
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Mormon facility on tap for River North
January 23, 2013|By Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune reporter
A prized piece of River North real estate on the same corner that was supposed to accommodate a state-of-the-art synagogue and community center has been purchased by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to build its first meetinghouse in Chicago's downtown.
The property at Clark and Chestnut streets is adjacent to the former site of the proposed Chicago Center for Jewish Life, a multimillion-dollar building that would have offered a sanctuary, school, kosher cafe and crisis intervention services for Jewish travelers and members of Lubavitch Chabad of the Loop, Gold Coast and Lincoln Park, the Hasidic Orthodox community that built it.
According to the Cook County recorder of deeds, the LDS church, commonly called the Mormons, purchased the property for $5.24 million. Church officials told three congregations this week about plans to build a meetinghouse so they no longer would have to rent space in Lincoln Park and on Chicago's Northwest Side.
The church has 14 congregations within Chicago city limits. There are more than 15,000 Latter-day Saints in Chicago, Wilmette, Naperville and Schaumburg, church officials said. There are 55,800 Mormons in Illinois and more than 6 million in the U.S.
Though it's unclear when the Mormons will begin construction, church officials said they intend to build a six-story structure with three floors of meeting space and three floors of parking.
Church spokesman Eric Hawkins said designs aren't complete, but most meetinghouses include a theater and gymnasium space, a genealogical library and a chapel.
For Mormons, a meetinghouse is not the same as a temple, which is closed to the public and reserved for rituals such as sealing eternal marriages and posthumous baptisms.
"Local church members look forward to having a place of their own in downtown Chicago," Wilmette Stake President K. David Scott said in a statement. In the Mormon church, stakes encompass multiple congregations, resembling Roman Catholic dioceses.
Scott said the location made sense because of its proximity to public transportation.
Kevin Barney, a congregant in the Wilmette Stake who grew up in DeKalb, said the church's central and urban location would enable the church to participate in high-profile events.
"To have this one that close to downtown (means) there may be occasions or special events and meetings that I would be able to go to because I'm downtown anyway," said Barney, who works in the Loop. "That building could be used for visiting dignitaries."
.... More below:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...n-eric-hawkins
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