Ribbon Cutting for Advocate Medical Group at Imani Village

The extended Milhouse family was proud to celebrate the ceremonial ribbon cutting and opening of Advocate Medical Group at Imani Village, Wednesday, February 20th, 2019. The opening marks an important milestone in Trinity United Church of Christ’s bold vision which was ten years in the making – to be the first holistic, sustainable, and Green community sponsored by a faith-based entity in the city of Chicago. This new physicians’ office, located at 901 E. 95th Street, in Chicago, expands access to high-quality health care on the South Side and anchors the soon-to-come, mixed-use residential and commercial village to be constructed near Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood. When complete, Imani Village will offer housing, a fitness center, a public market, recreational and educational programming and more.

Advocate Medical Group at Imani Village is 11,000 square feet of newly constructed space with 12 exam rooms and space for future expansion to meet the community’s evolving health care needs.

Project Summary: Team 1

Owner/Developer:           Trinity 95th & Cottage Grove Planned Community Development LLC   (Pastor Moss, Patricia Eggleston Esq., James D. Montgomery, Attorney at Law)

Owners Representative: Milhouse Engineering & Construction, Inc.

Architect:                           Johnson & Lee – Phil Johnson

General Contractor:        Powers & Son – Mamon Powers, Kelly Powers Baria

Team 1 built the core & shell for the new medical clinic and completed substantial infrastructure improvements to the existing building and campus, including demolition of an abandoned warehouse.

Design planning for the project started in 2016. Milhouse involvement began in early 2017, with construction underway by January 2018.  This is the first project in the overall development of Trinity’s “Imani Village Development” at this location, with a construction cost of $5.5 million.

Project Summary: Team 2

Clinic Lessee:               Advocate Medical Group (AMG) is leasing the building from Trinity. Operations started in late December.

Peter Messina – Manager of Design & Construction for all clinic projects, David Weinschreider, Manager of Projects

AMG Architect:            HDR – Karl Lust

AMG Contractor:          Boldt Construction – Jake Haussmann, Project Manager, Phillip Boldt, Project Engineer

Team 2 completed the build out of the clinic for Advocate Medical Group.

According to Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, senior pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, the next phase of the project will expand upon the organization’s efforts through holistic solutions: urban farming, recreational athletic programming and sustainable “green” construction. Ecological justice is a key part of Imani Village’s mission, and one of Trinity’s ministries as well.

Additional phases of the Imani Village project will feature: a senior lifestyle and family housing complex; a career training center that will work with previously incarcerated individuals; a food hub featuring a five-acre indoor garden and a year-round farmer’s market; a sports facility; a center for the cultivation of entrepreneurship; and more. Trinity’s development arm is still trying to work out what functions will be housed in the Imani Village center and what organizations it’ll partner with to provide these various services.