Evanston City Council approved the sale of the city-owned empty lot at the corner of Church Street and Darrow Avenue to Housing Opportunities Development Corporation, effectively moving forward the nonprofit organization’s proposed 33-unit affordable housing project. Housing Opportunities Development Corporation has partnered with Mt. Pisgah Ministry, a small church in the city’s 5th Ward, to .
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City council voted 6-2 Monday night to approve a proposed affordable housing development on Church Street. The two council votes were the final hurdle in the controversial development’s more than two-year-long approval process. The planned four-story mixed-use building is set to have ground-floor retail space, on-site parking and 33 units of affordable housing units. While.
City council stopped short of greenlighting a planned housing complex on Church Street Monday night, holding a sale of land but granting loans to the Housing Opportunity Development Corporation. The council considered three actions: swapping a portion of the city’s property with the church, Mt. Pisgah Ministries, Inc, approving a sale of this new property.
City Council passed two ordinances Monday night that constitute the first step in establishing a new mixed-use, affordable housing building in the 5th Ward. Council first voted in favor of an ordinance to authorize a special land use permit for Mt. Pisgah Ministry, Inc. on Church Street. The ministry will move to the corner at.