Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella Represents MAAFA Redemption Project in $8 Million Community Center Development on Chicago’s West Side

Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella is proud to represent the MAAFA Redemption Project as it broke ground on its new arts and activism center in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood. Burke Warren Partners Nicholas Gowen, Rebecca Huston, Matthew Norton, and Doug Wambach led the transaction to develop the parcel with MAAFA.

MAAFA members broke ground on the new MAAFA Center for Arts and Activism at 4241 West Washington Boulevard on the site of the former St. Barnabas Episcopal Church last week. The center will serve as home base for the MAAFA Redemption Project, a social justice ministry of New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, which bought the St. Barnabas building in 2014.

The $8 million center will also house MAAFA’s outreach services for young women and the Sankofa School for the Arts. Last year, the Burke Warren team, led by Partner Stephen Schuster, represented MAAFA in its Sankofa Village Wellness Center development project—a 60,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art health and wellness center which will offer dance, musical theatre, visual arts, and digital arts programs.

The MAAFA Redemption Project is a faith-based residential institute for emerging adult men of color and offers residential support, workforce training, and a host of wrap-around social services in the community.

Learn more about MAAFA’s development in West Garfield Park on blockclubchicago.org.