Harrison Street Planning Assisted Living At One Of Chicago's Most Endangered Buildings

Nellie Black Pavilion at the old Children's Memorial site, Chicago.
Courtesy of Preservation Chicago Nellie Black Pavilion at the old Children's Memorial site

One of Lincoln Park's most architecturally significant buildings may have a date with the wrecking ball. Harrison Street Real Estate Capital wants to build a new senior housing facility where Children's Memorial Hospital's Nellie Black Pavilion is, and intends to tear down the structure, which landed on Preservation Chicago's 2016 Chicago 7 list of endangered buildings.

Harrison Street says it bought the building from McCaffery Interests, which is leading a venture redeveloping Children's Memorial into an ambitious mixed-use development. Demolition is already underway on that project. Harrison Street plans to replace the seven-story Nellie Black building with a similar structure, Crain's reports.

Harrison Street is JV'ing with Houson-based Belmont Village on the 160-unit facility, which would be Harrison Street's first senior housing project in Chicago. [Crain's]

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