Community members advocated for this indoor track for more than three decades. The project features the area’s first hydraulically banked 200-meter track. The facility further enhances recreational and competitive event opportunities in Chicago’s Pullman and Roseland communities and surrounding neighborhoods. Paschen and All Construction, which includes minority- and women-owned business enterprise participation.The Chicago Park District’s new Gately Indoor Track & Field at Gately Park is a world-class sports complex and a year-round community center for wellness, culture and after-school programming. The construction contract was awarded to a joint venture between F.H. Another meeting will be scheduled in 2021. The plan for the combined headquarters-park campus was presented to community organizations and residents on multiple occasions in 2020, including in-person meetings before the coronavirus pandemic struck and via virtual sessions later in the year. Ronan’s unique solution to separating the building’s divergent uses was to extend a park pathway through the building, delineating its two halves.
In 2019, the firm John Ronan Architects was chosen to design the district’s headquarters and came up with a two-story circular building that will house not only the agency’s administrative offices but also the as-yet-unnamed park’s field house (it’s known, for the moment, as Park No.
The agency has been leasing space in the building ever since, an agreement that’s set to expire in 2022. The need for a new HQ was precipitated by the 2014 sale of the Park District’s current home at 541 N. “Government needs to invest sometimes when we can’t get the private sector to go there.” “It’s not easy to go to 49th and Western and get $60 million,” said Mike Kelly, the Park District’s general superintendent and CEO.
In reclaiming an industrial property, the city has already undertaken environmental cleanup of hot spots and the land will be capped with a layer of clean soil as part of the construction process, Gleason said. Suitable parkland was hard to come by, but the agency was committed to investing in an underserved area. It is a big project, it’s major construction in an area that we envision will be totally lifted by having a project of this magnitude locate there.”īrighton Park, on the Southwest Side, is one of the community areas in Chicago most starved for green space, with most of the land either already developed for industrial use or housing, and little else, said Heather Gleason, the Park District’s director of planning and development. “It’s going to be transformative for this community. “This has been a long process … that was very deliberate,” said Board President Avis LaVelle. Groundbreaking could take place later this spring, with occupancy expected by early 2023, officials said. Western Ave., acquired by the city in 2018 for $8 million, will eventually encompass a 58,000-square-foot administrative building, a 20,000-square-foot field house, two turf fields, a grand lawn, water features and a nature play space, among other amenities.
The formerly vacant industrial property at 4830 S. The Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners on Wednesday approved a $64.5 million construction contract for the agency’s new headquarters, a 17-acre campus that will double as much needed green space in the Brighton Park community.
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