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Fall Series for ownership phase of Fifth City Commons
POAH is inviting residents and interested community members to join a focus group designed to learn about shared ownership—a model that can make homeownership more accessible while strengthening neighborhood ties! THIS EVENT HAS PASSED. What is Shared Ownership? Shared ownership makes homeownership more affordable, helping first-time buyers and low-to-middle income families get on the property…
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Community Inspired: Adinkra Symbols
You will notice at Fifth City Commons that there are 3 distinct brick patterns at the west and east elevations. These three “Adinkra Symbols” were selected by a committee of community members whose input was very valuable in the final concept of this project. The information in this document includes more information and includes excerpts…
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Request for Proposals-Art Installations
Fifth City Commons (formerly known as C40 Garfield Park), which will be located at 3155 W. Fifth Avenue, at the corner of Fifth and Kedzie Avenues in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, is a 43-unit, mixed-use building that will follow the Passive House Design standard. This building will also have 4,300 of retail space on…
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Construction Updates & important July Events
Construction Update As previously mentioned on our June 13th update email, C40 Garfield Park officially began with mobilization by the Skender/Ashlaur team on June 12th. Construction work began soon after and primarily involved preliminary excavation work and the installation of the building’s earth retention system (the system used to keep the building stabilized). During the…
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C40 Garfield Park Financial Closing and Construction Start
Hello neighbors and community members, we hope that you are doing well and enjoying this shift to nicer weather. As of Thursday, June 1st, the C40 Garfield Park project has officially closed financially! This means that the funding sources from our lenders and partners (from BMO Harris, The City of Chicago and Enterprise Community Partners)…
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Building permit issued for first phase of Garfield Green
A full building permit has been issued for the first phase of the Garfield Green affordable housing development. Originally proposed as one of the submissions to the C40 Reinventing Cities competition in 2018, the venture led by POAH was selected as the winner in May 2019. The site is located at 3155 W. Fifth Ave,…
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General Contractor Chosen!
We wanted to provide you all with an update on the general contractor selection for the C40 Garfield Park project. As you know, the RFP for the project was sent out to three prospective candidates in early April. In the months that followed, we received the proposals, conducted interviews and compared pricing, scheduling and experience…
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May Project Updates
We hope that everyone had a pleasant last few weeks and that your month of May is off to a great start. We wanted to provide you all with a few high-level updates about the project that have happened since last month: The RFP (Request for bid Proposal) for the project was sent out to…
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March Update
Hello Neighbors and happy Women’s History Month to all! We have a few recent updates to share with the group: