Early details have been revealed for a new short-term lodging development at 5700 South Stony Island Avenue in Hyde Park. The project would sit on the intersection with East 57th Street directly across from the Museum of Science and Industry and Jackson Park, the former of which recently announced a brand-new front entrance.
Site context map of new Hope Lodge via Google Maps
The new six-story structure will be replacing an existing five-story apartment building on the site. The project will be a new location of The American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Hope Lodge, a network of facilities providing free accommodations to the over 200,000 cancer patients and caregivers who currently travel over 40 miles to receive treatment.
Rendering of new Hope Lodge via ACS
Rendering of new Hope Lodge via ACS
The new lodge would join 31 others across the nation. It will also collaborate with the University of Chicago Medicine, which is putting the final touches on its upcoming 575,000-square-foot AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, which is set to open next spring. The structure will be anchored by a one-story podium with covered parking that is capped by a rooftop deck.
Rendering of new Hope Lodge via ACS
While formal details haven’t been made readily available, Hope Lodges average around 35 rooms each. The Chicago outpost will also include a wellness and support hub with local resources. The ACS is working towards raising $82 million, of which $25 million was recently secured via a gift from the Duchossois family, who will receive naming rights.
At the moment, no timeline has been confirmed.
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Is it reasonable to suggest that this facility be the base of a taller apartment tower? Hyde Park is prime for development and this is a park/lake facing site that could be desirable for a condominium tower – which would also help to finance the lodge facility.
The taller you go, the more expensive construction is. For what is effectively a charitable use, we can’t expect them to use a more expensive construction type.
Alex, with a taller Condominium tower, the increased value of the condominiums offsets some of the cost of the facility. The argument doesn’t make sense.
Which is offset by the higher maintenance cost of a high-rise. Lar ger elevators, more complex water system.
People living in the condos probably wouldn’t want to be reminded about cancer every minute of the day.
Separate entrances alleviate the fears! In New York, the lower floors of many buildings have hospital annex centers, schools, shops, etc that don’t diminish the value or “vibe” of the apartments above. “Reminder of cancer every minute of the day?” We might all be conscious of the reality of life.
and, maybe JimA, the people who live there might not want to live on the South Side as there is a constant reminder of poverty…..
That’s a fairly substantial apartment complex to be tearing down! Interesting how the economics of this works considering so much vacancy not far from Hyde Park.
Even Obama didn’t want to build his memorial in Washington Park.. the irony is perplexing for a man who espouses to lift up with his message of hope.
It’s not that he didn’t want Washington Park; it’s that he wanted the prominence of the lakefront.
Weird non-sequitur as usual. Mods, any interest in a mute/block button or a ban feature?
Looks like it’s a uchicago residence hall which greatly changes things.
There needs to be a consistent effort to expand the green line to 63rd and Stoney Island. The area is prime for dense development and needs that final mile extension
I understood the motivation, but tearing down the stretch of green line to stony island was a huge mistake. It really connected south shore to Woodlawn. Hardly anyone rides the train north from cottage grove or king drive. More people get on at Garfield but it’s not substantial.
It does seem a shame to tear down an apartment complex that is not so terribly old. This despite the fact that, located so near the lakefront, it should have been built much taller (yes, Hyde Park, for all its pretentions, is part of the South Side, after all, and sadly not fabled, much-desired Granada or Camelot…). In years past, friends of mine lived in the complex as U of C grad students and had no complaints about the place.
Regarding the Green Line, I myself was a Hyde Parker when so much of it was demolished. I thought then and still do now that the destruction was a terrible thing to do. As many of you are aware, this was the first L line in the city and served the Columbia Exhibition of 1893. One problem was that the 63rd Street branch was built directly over the street (rather than over an alley), making for a particularly-dismal atmosphere (cf. the wasteland that is Lake Street under the L—of course, one could point to other factors that contributed to creating that dystopia…).
Some idiot just made a statement about living on the southside “being a constant reminder of poverty” . You just made an offensive and blanket statement about the entire half of the city and it’s population. Get it together and find something else to talk about if you’re not going to even think about what you’re saying !!