Crosby Update and Work Days

Finally — after many delays, we are GOING TO PULL AUDIO-VIDEO wire this Saturday (woo Hoo!) as we gear up each weekend in April to get all of our audio/video stuf installed. It is starting to get real exciting!
Crosby Work Days
Crosby Work Days are back in full swing as we are counting down the [...]

Reminder Time: God’s Continuing Faithfulness

Wow! I am continually reminded that God has a plan for the redemption of Chicago and Park is going to be a part of that. As we have moved through this summer, there has been a lot of uncertainty about where we would have our offices come September and where we would hold [...]

Church Seat Opinions?

We are moving along in our renovation of a 90,000 sq ft dry goods warehouse into an urban church in Chicago and would love to hear from you folks who have built churches as to who I should talk to about church seating.  We expect to have about half theater-seating and half would be stackable [...]

Warehouse Church in Chicago!

Park Community Church is building the country’s coolest church in a dry goods warehouse on the near northside of Chicago. With more than 90,000 sq ft, this first permanent home for the church allows them to stop renting after 19 years in the city.
Check out the photos and building renderings at Worship Facilities Media. [...]

Future Design

In the city of Chicago, it is very hard to own your own building but after 18 years, Park COmmunity Church is renovating a warehouse into the coolest church in the land. As we glean ideas from other architectural creations, I came across this Helios futuristic gas station in California and thought I would [...]

Check out our Park WebCam!

As we progress on the renovation of Park Community Church’s warehouse into a ministry center at 1001 N Crosby, we now have the ability to see it happen live and in color with our ParkCAM, courtesy of Michael and Melissa Howard, who have graciously allowed us to install a webcam on their balcony. You can [...]

Adaptive Reuse of a Church

Many buildings and other commercial and organization structures are being made into churches and churches are also being made into residential homes. In Chicago, our church, Park Community Church, is providing an adaptive reuse for a 70,000 square foot warehouse, which will become our permanent church home. See here for the building plans.
In [...]

Building Permit In Hand!

WE RECEIVED OUR PERMIT TODAY! Praise God! In just over four months, we maneuvered our way through the labyrinth called the City of Chicago Department of Construction and Permits and now have our construction permit! …stay tuned as the building process begins to get exciting! Click here to learn more about the new [...]

Imagine More Building Update – July 2006

Imagine More is the name of our current journey to provide a permanent church home for Park at 1001 N. Crosby. Following a successful stewardship campaign to raise funds for our building last fall, we have now entered into a season of planning and permitting, followed by the beginning of demolition work at our property.
Here [...]