Historical YMCA/YWCA buildings to reopen as West Loop apartments

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By: Dennis Rodkin | 6/24/2020 | Crain's Chicago Business

A set of red brick buildings that over the course of a century held first a YMCA/YWCA and later the Salvation Army is set to reopen as apartments for the hot West Loop market. The first renters move in July 1. Wrapping the southeast corner of Monroe Street and Ashland Avenue at the western edge of the West Loop, the connected structures, built between 1907 and 1928 and in differing styles, will have 260 units, all studios and one-bedrooms, positioned as a lower-priced alternative to the increasingly luxury-priced housing options in the West Loop. Read More....