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Jefferson Park Firehouse May Become Brewery, Apartments

A proposal to transform a vacant historic Northwest Side firehouse into a brewery and tap room with nine apartments near the Jefferson Park Transit Center drew mostly positive response at a community meeting last week. However, some residents questioned the need to add two stories, thereby doubling the city-owned building’s height, in order to accommodate the apartments.

The property’s ground floor would be occupied by the locally popular Lake Effect Brewing Co., which opened its doors in 2011. Developer Ambrosia Homes would spend about $2.4 million to rehabilitate the 112-year-old brick structure at 4835 N. Lipps Ave., and wouldn’t seek any financial assistance from the city, Alderman John Arena said in his newsletter last month.

Built in 1906 to replace a wooden structure that dated from the 1870s, the firehouse has been vacant since 2015. Chicago firefighters last used the property in 1981.


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