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A proposal to convert a former Gold Coast arts dormitory for women into a repository for human ashes is apparently dead.
Facing overwhelming opposition from neighbors, developers withdrew their offer to buy the landmark Three Arts Club building and turn it into a columbarium -- a storage facility housing up to 15,000 cinerary urns.
After meetings with neighborhood associations, Bill Bickford, an architect who headed up the unusual redevelopment bid, sent an open letter to Gold Coast residents Saturday informing them that the cremated remains of thousands of dead Chicagoans would not be moving in as planned.
(Robert Channick)
