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Article: Grace and Peace plans and hopes
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- July 21, 2009
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A Northwest Side church wants to build a new home for itself in Austin and make it a center for education and community services.
Grace and Peace Community, a Christian church, has proposed a $10 million project for 1864 N. Leclaire. It plans to renovate an 80,000-square-foot building, an old Glidden paint factory, and turn part of it into a charter school.
Next to it on the three-acre site, the church plans to build a worship center that could hold about 850 people. It has asked the city for a zoning change so it can proceed.
Pastor John Zayas said the church is tapping a wide network of donors for the project. It acquired the property in a $900,000 cash sale and has obtained a financing ...