Lincoln Park Home Depot - First of its kind.

[mendelman]

Two years ago I decided to photograph the new(ish) Home Depot on North Halsted in Chicago's Linocln Park neighborhood.

The site was completed in 2003 and was the first (I'm pretty sure) 2-story Home Depot in the nation. It was built on a previously large vacant lot (approx. 150ish feet wide) with prime frontage on the North Halsted commercial corridor. The parking is located in a garage on the upper two floors of the building and the building is built to the lot lines.

The Home Depot in the large white bulk in the distance (looking north)

Next door to a slightly older commercial development. Helps with sense of scale.

Front entrance

Adjacent 19th century commercial urban fabric. Also helps with sense of scale.

Looking south along North Halsted

Parking garage entrance from North Halsted

Sense of bulk from nearby cross street

Surrounding urban form and scale:

Across the street

[egrguy]

Thanks for the photos. Its nice that Home Depot built within a more urban setting, however, it just stands out like a sore thumb in comparison to its surroundings. Its too bad the exterior wasn't brick or something that would blend it in with its neighbors.

[Rybak 187]

Not building sprawly is progress now getting them to build in the same style of the community is the next step.