The Josiah Co-Housing Community will be developed in a 125,000 square foot, five story industrial building in North Lawndale at 4100 W. Fillmore. The building is a structurally sound brick building in an area that is zoned Manufacturing M1-2.
The first floor, 25,000 square feet will be dedicated to common space. The design will include a kitchen and dining area, hangout/recreational space, a lecture hall, meeting rooms, a fitness center, a workshop, a library, a chapel, a day-care facility and a production studio.
The second floor will include guest apartments for guest speakers and visitors and dorm rooms for students who will stay temporarily in a hostel living arrangement.
The third, fourth and fifth stories will consist of condo units which will be owned by the co-housing residents. These will include one, two and three bedroom units which will have a basic design and finishes chosen by the buyers.
The third, fourth and fifth floors will house individually-owned condos, desinged in a way to encourage community, with windows looking out into hallways, "front porches" and other design innovations. Homeowners that buy in early will get the chance to design their own units.
The development will include parking, possibly indoors, a shared tool workshop, a roof top garden and a dog run.
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We still have to research the origins of the building but we do know that it was used to package baking soda for consumer use and was bought by Kraft at some time and converted into packaging Log Cabin mayple syrup for consumer use. The last owner fabricated belt webbing for all kinds of use in comsumer products, probably some that you own and use. We're told they outgrew the space, hard to believe, and moved further North in the city to a larger building. They left the build in great condition, very clean with very little demolition required.
The top floor (5) has 14 ft exposed ceilings which we might be able to loft if an owner wants that. The other floors have 12 ft ceilings. There are concrete columns on 16' x 20' spacing. Some columns can be built into the walls but some are going to remain exposed inside the living space. I find this to be very urban. The floors are maybe 12" deep concrete. Need any other info, blog this site. Jeff
Question for the community: Right now, we have a parking lot across the street (south) that is paved and landscaped for parking for residents and visitors. yesterday, while I was walking the building with the architect, it occured to us that the adjacent warehouse building (on top of which the roof top garden will exist), (100' x 150'= 15,000 sf garden!!!), could be used as an indoor, heated garage for the residents and has enough room for maybe a basketball court!!, and our HARLEYS, but it would add to the cost of each unit (don't know how much yet). So, what du y'all think??
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