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Affordable Apartments At Logan Square Church Break Ground After 6 Years In The Making
LOGAN SQUARE — An affordable housing project inside a church that’s been nearly six years in the making is finally breaking ground.
The Humboldt Park United Methodist Church, 2120 N. Mozart St., is being rehabbed and converted into affordable apartments for a development called La Herencia, a project that’s gone through layers of city approvals and funding boosts since 2020.
The project will preserve the 1928 church’s façade while creating 10 affordable apartments — a mix of studios and one-, two- and three-bedrooms — in Logan Square for Black and Brown families earning 15-50 percent of the area median income. LUCHA, the development company behind the project, plans to renovate the church’s 12 existing apartments and convert the church’s sanctuary and fellowship space into 10 more apartments for a total of 22 units.
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