Former home of the Hammond Organ Manufacturing Facility - now a Creatorspace™.
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• Acquisition Date: December 2015
• Square Footage: 145,000 SF
• Total Capitalization: $8,292,000
• Construction Cost: $3,937,125
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• 4200 W Diversey is an industrial building in Chicago’s Hermosa neighborhood that was originally home to the Hammond Organ Factory.
• The building was bank-owned until it was acquired by Baum Revision and has been redeveloped into a community-oriented creatorspace™.
• Currently, 4200 W. Diversey Ave. is now known as, Workshop 4200, Chicago’s Creatorspace™ and is the home to over 30 creative, passionate, hard-working people with big dreams.
• It’s a place where connections are made & collaborations are born; amplified through tenant produced art and music events in the gallery.
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• Events are a focal point in creating a thriving community within the building with a central large gallery serving as the building’s venue.
• The building sponsors rotating monthly shows geared towards bringing the public into the building.
• The resulting foot traffic yields dynamic events that are focused around showcasing the tenant base.
• Several tenants have grown and expanded within the building as a result of on-going commission driven and cross-collaboration work that is a direct result of the activity within the building.
• The building is currently 100% leased, and even has a waitlist.
All images courtesy of Baum Revision, Workshop4200, and Vatsal Desai
EVENTS:
Provide economic opportunities for tenants, resident artists, at Workshop 4200. Events are a big part of our mission towards forging collaborative communities. Building-wide events range from after-work cocktails, to open studio nights, community member art shows, charity fundraisers, live music events, food festivals, and more! The former factory building is home to an array of studios, workshops, and production spaces with shared common areas that were designed to provide an inspiring, relaxing, and collaborative environment. “Go-getters not afraid to fail, entrepreneurs willing to take risks to follow their dreams, creatives who march to the beat of their own drum - these are the people of Workshop 4200.
