Three of the existing walls of the historic Second Church of Christ Scientist in Lincoln Park are now being prepared for integration into a new six-story mixed-use structure at 2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. This project, a collaboration between Ogden Partners and Booth Hansen, aims to preserve a portion of the original Beaux-Arts facade designed by Solon S. Beman.
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Rendering by Booth Hansen
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue 1st and 2nd floor plans. Plans by Booth Hansen
The church will continue operations within the building, occupying over 4,700 square feet of space on the ground floor. The revised plan for the residential component now includes 22 apartment units, reduced from the initially proposed 26. In terms of affordability, the project will subsidize one off-site unit for individuals making up to 50 percent of the area median income. Additionally, a fee will be paid in lieu of providing a second affordable unit.
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
The three-bedroom layouts will range in size from 1,945 square feet to 3,051 square feet. The top-floor units will feature direct stair access to rooftop decks, while the units below will each be equipped with either a balcony or terrace space. Common areas for residents will include a lobby, a fitness room, and a communal amenity room, all situated on the ground level.
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue 3rd and 4th floor plans. Plans by Booth Hansen
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue 5th and 6th floor plans. Plans by Booth Hansen
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue rooftop plan by Hirsch MPG
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Elevation by Booth Hansen
For the exterior of the 80-foot addition, two shades of cast stone finish will be used, with inset balconies occupying each of the corners. These balconies will be lined with spandrel glass railings and prefinished steel decking. Green roof trays will also be utilized on both the second and rooftop levels.
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
Within the garage, there will be 17 bike storage slots and electric vehicle charging stations for 31 parking spaces. Nearby, several public transit options are available, including bus service for Routes 22, 36, 76, 77, 134, 143, 151, and 156, all within walking distance. The closest Purple and Brown Line CTA service is available at Diversey station via an 18-minute walk northwest, while the nearest Red Line service is at Fullerton station via a 22-minute walk southwest.
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
2700 N Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
MC Construction has been appointed the general contractor for the project. The exact timeline for the project’s completion is still to be determined.
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Lincoln park has devolved into a well-healed disneyland.
Living a few blocks away I find this comical .
A prime location like this should be developed to confirm to the high rise neighborhood it’s locus sits in .
Living nearby as well I completely agree with you.
I’m glad to see the parking all underground and access from the alleyway as it should, but 31 parking spaces for 22 units but not even a 1:1 on bike slots!? Welcome to Skokie!?
In a neighborhood as rife with historical teardown as LP, you should all be glad that someone is finally making a case study for adaptive reuse. Nobody will build this ornately ever again, it’s important we retain what remains of the neighborhood’s unique street wall.
Small minded Chicago.
Skokie it’s not. Maybe Evanston, or Wilmette. Sometimes in a three bedroom apartment, there are two people who drive, or, guest parking? (try parking in that neighborhood – yes, people drive). It could have been a tower, why not. But this building isn’t, so there will be some light and air in a dense neighborhood for Chicago. The amazing aspect of this project is that all of the bedrooms have windows and better than decent floor plans. See how easily accomplished that is by a competition architect. And, finally, why is it Disneyland when a historic building (facade) which helped to forge the quality of a neighborhood is retained, and is reused as the original use?
(ok, go crazy about cars and density and historical reclamation).
Maybe in a city that was developed for walking and transit, people shouldn’t have to own a car, especially since it’s incredibly rare in the US to even have places where one can get by without one comfortably. . I’m really tired of this argument because it’s a strawman one. It literally doesn’t scale – too many cars destroy urban neighborhoods and as a resident of this area, we’re long past that point of too many cars. I’ve had enough.
Public transit has collapsed under Brandon Johnson. It is no longer safe and dependable, and people that can afford to live in Lincoln Park are going to want an alternative. Under Brandon Johnson, I don’t foresee transit recovering in the city for another decade. Hearing from friends that take it, it’s beyond crisis and many have completely written off change. Ghost buses and complete chaos on the train lines are now not the exception sadly. The same thing happened with Minneapolis. The beautiful light rail system has become a mobile drug and homeless shelter and everyone went back to using cars if they can afford it. I couldn’t vote for the guy, but to think I had hope for his term now seems hilarious. Anyone that thinks differently hasn’t taken public transit lately.
Lol nice fear mongering. Way to bring up minneapolis, just say you hate progressive leadership. BJ sucks but the trainlines aren’t some blood bath you betray it as. May drop your racism and disdain for the cta and you will find it is fine.
I actually like Jacob Frey. Light years ahead of Brandon Johnson. I have no disdain for the CTA, just the incompetent leadership that is going to destroy it if left unchecked. Minneapolis transit issues are due to no security enforcement and no ticketing. The result is the same however. The average person has become skeptical and avoids public transit. It’s the less well-off that don’t have the option and suffer. It’s not fear mongering. Go on reddit, which is very politically left leaning and younger, and you will hear endless horror stories and frequent posts about what a disaster it has become. It’s been getting exponentially worse since covid and it’s having an effect on even on lines that were historically dependable and safe. A quick search of the news shows that in the last two weeks the red line has seen one person murdered from an attack earlier, one critically injured due to a stabbing, and a missing women. Get your head out of the sand. I love public transit, but families and commuters shouldn’t have to deal with meth and hard drug fumes on a near daily basis. Old individuals with respiratory issues deserve more than just hoping it’s on cigarettes and weed being smoked next to them. Even prior to its recent struggles I believed that developments targeted toward middle and upper income residents needed parking to be competitive in the marketplace. The recent struggles of the CTA and the lack of remediation are only further driving the attractiveness of dedicated parking sadly.
Reflexive accusations of racism based on nothing eventually lose their sting, as here.
It was actually falling apart since COVID, which was Lightfoot’s admin. Not that is has much to do with them, but:
1. The CTA’s presidents and his whole admin need to go. They don’t ride public transit and they make way too much money, they have no idea what they’re doing and it’s historically been a vanity position awarded to a mayor’s friends.
2. Everyone’s public transit system got shadier during COVID as WFH means fewer people need to ride it home from the office
3. Chicago has long needed a security force on the system, and for a system that is largely not patrolled at all and anything goes, you have to admit it’s remarkably safe for what it could be. It could be total anarchy.
I agree that in some parts of the city you unfortunately need a car, but why in the world should there be more parking spaces than units in a neighborhood with a 98 walk score, 80 transit score and 95 bike score?
I agree with you. This is one of the most beautiful sections of the city with some other most unfortunate old mansion teardowns, we need to preserve every last ounce of historical facade that we can. Could have been taller, yes. But there are plenty of lots for that. Every time an old building gets an adaptive reuse it puts more value pressure on the remaining land which makes taller, ornate buildings more economically feasible anyway. Tearing this down for a tower would have been a travesty. And you know its would have been some crap by Pappageorge or Lagrange, it’s not like SHoP or MAD or Stern architects are actively building in this city.
Lol nice fear mongering. Way to bring up minneapolis, just say you hate progressive leadership. BJ sucks but the trainlines aren’t some blood bath you betray it as. May drop your racism and disdain for the cta and you will find it is fine.
Guys I lived in Chicago for more than ten years. I live in Miami now. In terms of the frequency of service Miami falls short (only 30 minute headways on busses and trains on Saturdays and Sundays and after 9 p.m. on weekdays) but from what my friends in Chicago have been telling me, it’s getting like that in Chicago. Also, there are NO homeless people on Miami’s busses and trains. The Miami-Dade county metro police simply don’t put up with that. Nor would the public opinion here. From what I’m hearing Chicagos mass transit system has become a mobile homeless system. There was some of that when I lived there, but I’ve heard it’s reached ridiculous levels. If both the conservatives and liberals alike can’t use their busses and trains because it’s become so unpleasant then the that means the liberals’ agenda has completely failed. No matter what you do to decrease automobile usage, no matter what you do to increase affordable housing… If you’re going to accommodate people who won’t work… I have one answer about Chicagos future: San Francisco.
Keep the CTA’s name out of your mouth. Nah but fr the CTA is still a functioning transit system that I use every day (I by choice dont own a car). It works fine for everyone except conservative snowflakes that cant handle a little cold or a couple homeless folk minding their own business.
The thing that bothers me most about your argument is the “safety” aspect. Do you not realize how much more likely you are to die unnaturally per VMT driving a car than on any public transit system?
Guys I lived in Chicago for more than ten years. I live in Miami now. In terms of the frequency of service Miami falls short (only 30 minute headways on busses and trains on Saturdays and Sundays and after 9 p.m. on weekdays) but from what my friends in Chicago have been telling me, it’s getting like that in Chicago. Also, there are NO homeless people on Miami’s busses and trains. The Miami-Dade county metro police simply don’t put up with that. Nor would the public opinion here. From what I’m hearing Chicagos mass transit system has become a mobile homeless system. There was some of that when I lived there, but I’ve heard it’s reached ridiculous levels. If both the conservatives and liberals alike can’t use their busses and trains because it’s become so unpleasant then the that means the liberals’ agenda has completely failed. No matter what you do to decrease automobile usage, no matter what you do to increase affordable housing… If you’re going to accommodate people who won’t work… I have one answer about Chicagos future: San Francisco.
Good lord, why are wingnuts invading this site? Shouldn’t you guys be fear mongering on Fox New’s YouTube section instead?
I take the train daily and the cta is a mess. Stop defending it. It’s a mess. Do I love it, yes. Is it a mess yes. While Chicago is a good transit oriented city in some parts other parts you need a car.
I take the train daily and the cta is a mess. Stop defending it. It’s a mess. Do I love it, yes. Is it a mess yes. While Chicago is a good transit oriented city in some parts aren’t.