The property has a six-story, 92,000-sf building that was the Archdiocese's Pastoral Center, the spokeswoman says. Children's Memorial Hospital is constructing the Ann & Ruboert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago less than a block away at 225 E. Chicago.

The $1 billion facility will have 288 beds and replace the current hospital, which is licensed for 270 beds, she says. The hospital was interested in the property at 155 E. Superior St. because of its close proximity.

Children's Memorial will either use the space at a future date for "non-patient care uses" such as faculty offices, administrative offices and out-patient clinics or will demolish the existing building and construct a facility for the "non-patient uses," she says. The organization has not decided if it will lease the space on a temporary basis until it is needed, she says.