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Ervin Hosts Meeting on $300 Million IMD Gateway Project Thursday Night

By Stephanie Lulay | April 9, 2015 10:36am
 The Illinois Medical District commission approved Gateway Development Partners to develop a $300 million hotel project on the Near West Side — a move which comes months after the commission's initial rejection of one of the group's principal members due to federal tax evasion.
The Illinois Medical District commission approved Gateway Development Partners to develop a $300 million hotel project on the Near West Side — a move which comes months after the commission's initial rejection of one of the group's principal members due to federal tax evasion.
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MEDICAL DISTRICT — Ald. Jason Ervin is inviting the community to weigh in Thursday on the IMD Gateway, a proposed $300 million hotel project on the Near West Side.

The meeting to discuss the Illinois Medical District development will start at 6:30 p.m. at Chicago Hope Academy, 2189 W. Bowler St. in Tri-Taylor.

In July 2014, the Illinois Medical District commission approved Gateway Development Partners to develop the $300 million hotel project, which includes plans for a 10-story, 225-room hotel on a nine acre site at 2020 W. Ogden Ave.

The IMD Gateway Development would also include 92,000 square feet of retail space, restaurants, a fitness center and a daycare center. The plan also calls for a five-story parking garage, medical offices, urban farm greenhouses and a 16-story, 200-unit apartment building aimed at young professionals and students.

Higgins Development Partners — one of three developers that make up Gateway Development Partners — was initially selected as the lead contractor on the project until the company was suddenly dropped after evidence surfaced that the group's founder, Jack Higgins, owed the federal government more than $2.5 million in back taxes.

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