A new $3.5 million child development center will be developed in North Lawndale through a City-owned land sale approved today by City Council.   

Appraised at $255,000, 12 City-owned parcels located on the 3100 blocks of West Ogden Avenue and West 16th Street will be sold to Sinai Health System for $1. 

The site, which includes a 7,800-square-foot former Boys and Girls Club building, will be rehabilitated and expanded by Sinai Health as a new home for Gads Hill Center, a community-based family resource provider serving low-income residents of the Lower West Side since 1898. Gads Hill will relocate from its current leased space at the nearby Sinai Community Institute into the new 16,000-square-foot facility, which will include eight classrooms, offices, a kitchen, adjacent parking, an outdoor playground and landscaped open space.  The project is expected to retain 34 jobs and create 50 temporary construction jobs.

The relocation is part of the “Sinai Tomorrow” redevelopment project to upgrade facilities at the Mt. Sinai hospital campus. Gads Hill Center’s vacated space at the Sinai Community Institute will be used by the hospital for expanded outpatient services.

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