The Ambassador (site) (Gary, Indiana)
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574 Monroe Street
Gary, IN 46402
www.preserveindiana.com/pixpages/nw_ind/Mahencha.htm
The Ambassador apartments were constructed in 1927 for newly arrived U.S. steel managers.
The building has been the subject of more than one failed attempt at rehabilitation since then. It was in apparently occupied and in reasonably good condition up until 1985. In 1993, the Jefferson Park Community Development Corporation attempted to raise $4.3 million for rehabilitation as apartments for lower and middle income senior citizens. A neighborhood cleanup that year collected thousands of pounds of trash. The building was to have 78 units for single and married seniors. Florida firm Ocwen Financial Corp. was to provide $3.2 million from tax credits, the city of Gary providing $900,000, and the rest of the project mortgaged. The renovation was to be an anchor for a renaissance for the entire neighborhood.
The groundbreaking for the renovation came in 1995, by which time the estimated cost for renovations had ballooned to $5.5 million. Workers began "demolishing the interior" that year, according to a Dec. 30, 1995 Post-Tribune article titled "Ambassador to open in a year." It is not known why this project fell through, and the building remains shuttered and deteriorating to this day.
Gary, IN 46402
www.preserveindiana.com/pixpages/nw_ind/Mahencha.htm
The Ambassador apartments were constructed in 1927 for newly arrived U.S. steel managers.
The building has been the subject of more than one failed attempt at rehabilitation since then. It was in apparently occupied and in reasonably good condition up until 1985. In 1993, the Jefferson Park Community Development Corporation attempted to raise $4.3 million for rehabilitation as apartments for lower and middle income senior citizens. A neighborhood cleanup that year collected thousands of pounds of trash. The building was to have 78 units for single and married seniors. Florida firm Ocwen Financial Corp. was to provide $3.2 million from tax credits, the city of Gary providing $900,000, and the rest of the project mortgaged. The renovation was to be an anchor for a renaissance for the entire neighborhood.
The groundbreaking for the renovation came in 1995, by which time the estimated cost for renovations had ballooned to $5.5 million. Workers began "demolishing the interior" that year, according to a Dec. 30, 1995 Post-Tribune article titled "Ambassador to open in a year." It is not known why this project fell through, and the building remains shuttered and deteriorating to this day.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°36'1"N 87°20'37"W
- The Patch 0.7 km
- Original Tolleston 1.9 km
- Clarke 5.2 km
- Original Liverpool 5.6 km
- Maynard 16 km
- World's Columbian Exposition site 31 km
- Former Site of the Union Stock Yards 36 km
- A Century of Progress site 37 km
- Former Hawthorne Works 43 km
- Former Path of Ogden Avenue 44 km
- Downtown West 0.4 km
- Lincoln Street Residential District 0.9 km
- Emerson 1.6 km
- Horace Mann 1.9 km
- Midtown 2.1 km
- U.S. Steel Gary Works 2.4 km
- Ambridge 2.5 km
- Tolleston 3.2 km
- Pulaski 3.4 km
- Lake County, Indiana 16 km
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