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Originally Posted by the urban politician
DePaul to raise $250 million for arts, academic buildings in Lincoln Park
By: Shia Kapos May 17, 2010
DePaul University will launch a $250-million capital campaign this week to build new theater, music and art schools on its Lincoln Park campus. The 10-year fundraising effort is the first comprehensive capital campaign in the university's 112-year history.
The article says that 1/2 of the funds have already been obtained.
Here is another notable excerpt:
The new buildings will be: Theatre School, southwest corner of Fullerton and Racine avenues; School of Music, west side of the 2300 block of North Halsted Street; DePaul Art Museum, 935 W. Fullerton, and one new academic building on the west side of the 2300 block of North Kenmore Street.
^ Some questions/concerns: Is 935 W Fullerton a vacant lot? Also, a streetview of the 2300 block of N Kenmore shows that there is no vacant land whatsoever on that whole block, and it is in fact pretty densely built up.
Yet not far around the corner is a huge parking lot.
Is there a need to demolish historic building stock like this?
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935 is a vacant site. It was formerly the site of a boiler plant. The 2300 building will replace a number of two- and three- flats. They are attractive buildings, but they're surrounded by the university. The parking lots are all future building sites. Nothing's been announced for the one at Seminary and Belden, that will be tricky because it's basically neighborhood territory.