The upcoming Woodlawn Central development has taken another step forward as it has now secured City Council approval. The multi-building proposal has been in the works for a few years and has seen refinement since it was initially introduced over four years ago. Efforts for the project have been led by the Apostolic Church of God, which owns the multiple parcels.v
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Nearly five years after a caisson permit was issued to begin construction on a seven-story Edgewater condo building, a new developer has received permission to try again on the same parcel. On July 17, Variable Properties LLC got a permit for a five-story, 24-unit residential project at 6027 North Kenmore Avenue, where a 2017 demolition laid waste to one of the last surviving homes by John Lewis Cochran. The permit had been pending in the Chicago Data Portal since March 13, and it came through with a reported cost of $2.7 million.
Renderings have been revealed for the upcoming second phase of the mixed-use development at 909 West Belmont Avenue in Lake View. Located just down the block from the CTA Belmont stop, the proposal will complement the first phase next door at 919 West Belmont Avenue and replace a two-story mixed-use building, for which a demolition permit was issued last week.
Progress is starting to rise from below grade at Loyola University’s Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences building at 1144 West Loyola Avenue on the Rogers Park campus. Concrete walls and columns with protruding rebar, a solid sign that there will be more floors to come, are reaching up from beneath the surface, surrounded by a web of cross braces shoring up the perimeter walls.
Details have been revealed for a new mixed-use complex spread across two sites in West Englewood as part of a city-issued Request for Proposal (RFP). The initial RFP was issued late last year, with documents due back in January. Since then, the city has selected a proposal led by local real estate company E.G. Woode L3C.
