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Ald. Gardiner to hold meeting on plans for first floor of historic firehouse building in Jefferson Park
by BRIAN NADIG
Alderman James Gardiner (45th) will hold a community meeting next week on a proposed zoning change to allow for a small business incubator to open on the first floor of the former Jefferson Park firehouse, 4837 N. Lipps Ave.
The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 9, at the United Church of Christ, 5051 W. Gunnison St.
A city of Chicago community development grant of up to $250,000 has been awarded to help build as many as 15 separate hair-style and other salon-related operating stations.
Called “Parlor Station,” the project was one of 58 neighborhood improvement projects awarded a total of $33 million in grants.
Construction began last summer on the former firehouse’s second floor, where four apartments are being built out. Initial plans had called for a brewery on the first floor, but those plans fell through.
The two-story structure, which includes a basement, was built 120 years ago. It stopped being used as a firehouse in 1981, and then until around 2010 it housed the 45th Ward streets and sanitation services.
Several years ago the city sold the building to developer Tim Pomaville of Ambrosia Homes in exchange for putting $200,000 in escrow to cover the estimated cost of environmental remediation for the site. The site is located about 1/4-block south of the Jefferson Park CTA Terminal, 4917 N. Milwaukee Ave.
The project is designed for hair stylists and skin and nail treatment specialists who are looking to start their own business but may not be ready to lease an entire storefront, said Lidia Pomaville, the project’s organizer.
Under the proposal the property would be rezoned from B3-2 to C1-2.
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