After Five Years, Lincoln Common is Complete
With all the satisfaction of slotting the last asymmetrical piece of cardboard into a 350-piece Nancy Drew jigsaw puzzle, McCaffery Interests and Hines have completed Lincoln Common. Lincoln Common (Courtesy of Hines) The $350 million makeover of the old Children’s Memorial Hospital was approved five years ago, and the ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in September of 2019. The last piece of the Lincoln Common puzzle was The...
Lincoln Common Ribbon Cutting Today
The official ribbon-cutting ceremony for Lincoln Common is scheduled for today. It’s the biggest project to hit Lincoln Park since the 1800’s, when the city decided that a couple of dozen thousand dead people could rest more peacefully on land a little farther from the living. Lincoln Common (Courtesy of Hines) Until a decade ago, this was the location of Children’s Memorial Hospital. Its relocation to...