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Church Expansion Plans Get Go-Ahead

CHICAGO-First Evangelical Free Church will increase the size of its facilities in the 5200 block of North Ashland Avenue from 36,000 sf to 64,000 sf. The first phase will replace the First Evangelical Free Church's buildings at 5249 and 5251 N. Ashland Ave. with a family life center.

By Mark Ruda | Updated on January 20, 2006

CHICAGO-A North Side church is embarking on a five-phase redevelopment plan that will turn 36,000 sf of outdated buildings into a 64,000-sf campus. The first phase will replace the First Evangelical Free Church’s buildings at 5249 and 5251 N. Ashland Ave. with a family life center, expected to be completed in six years.

The first phase is expected to cost $2 million, says Tim Wilkin of the church. “We have had fund raising but don’t have estimates yet,” Wilkins tells GlobeSt.com about the cost of the entire project.

The buildings at 5249 and 5251 N. Ashland Ave. house church offices and youth nursery. Other buildings on the church’s 25,250-sf site include residential buildings in disrepair, according to Michelle Dewlen of the department of planning and development. The only additions to the current buildings have been limited to a recreation room in 1948 and education building in 1958. “The church assembled this block of contiguous lots in anticipation of this proposed improvement and expansion,” Dewlen says.

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