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Artists and arts groups pushed for continued operation of the Evanston's Noyes Center Monday night as city staff outlined the need for
Portions of the former school building at
An image from a 1950 Sanborn fire insurance map showing the expansion of the
Since the city acquired the shuttered school in 1980 for
The building has seen some improvements, including a
Noyes is the only one of the city's community centers where annual revenue has covered annual operating costs in recent years.
But at the rate of operating "profit" at Noyes over the past four years, the city would just now be coming close to recovering the capital improvement cost of the roof repair a decade ago — not counting interest.
At a similar rate, recovering the planned
When the city council voted earlier this year to add an eighth community center to the city's real estate portfolio — the former Little Beans Cafe at
She said the city needs to view profitability as a community good, while still offering recreation program fee discounts to lower-income residents.
With the council Monday night also receiving a report on putting its assets to work — a study that envisions redeveloping some city properties to meet affordable housing and economic development goals and to generate new property tax revenue — council members chose not to take any immediate action on the Noyes renovation proposal.
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City Engineer
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The council agreed to seek a federal grant to move forward with exploring the putting assets to work concept. The grant program, with a
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