Just two weeks after we saw demolition work getting started at 840 West Lill Avenue in Lincoln Park, foundation work for the new building has already begun at the site. Built in 1860 and apparently torn down in about the same number of minutes, the old edifice gives way to the new 840 West Lill, a three-story with basement, two-unit luxury condominium building designed by Michael Cox and Associates and developed by Pro-Homes.
Foundation work at 840 West ill Avenue in Lincoln Park. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
From the alley. Photo by Daniel Schell
From the alley. Photo by Daniel Schell
A demolition permit was issued July 9, and demo crews got to work immediately, as evidenced by new construction already beginning, with Pro-Homes is serving as their own general contractor. The building will feature one duplex-up and one duplex-down, each configured with four bedrooms, topped by a roof deck. The new construction permit, issued by the City of Chicago in May, calls for a detached two-car garage with a roof deck, with marketing materials for the condos indicating individual garages for each unit. Those same materials point to a Spring 2025 delivery for the condominiums.
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
New Construction permit, via Chicago Data Portal
The former 840 West Lill. Photo by Daniel Schell
Residents of 840 West Lill Avenue will find transit service via the Route 8 bus less than two blocks northeast at Halsted and Wrightwood. The Fullerton Red/Brown/Purple Line platform is located about a half mile southwest, while the Diversey Brown/Purple Line platform is a tad farther to the northwest.
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It’s handsome. Upgrade for sure
What was there was plenty nice. Silly to demolish it in the name of luxury condos, which is all that seems to be coming down the pipeline. If only there was a way to make affordable housing appealing for cities, neighbors, and developers. We seem to forget that diversity in housing benefits us all.
There’s a decent amount of affordable housing being built in Chicago right now. We definilty still need more, but luxury housing stock is still better than nothing, as it takes pressure off the existing affordable housing market being taken away and turned into luxury housing. This is a win for the city because 2 families will live here instead of 1, and this area has been trending more and more towards higher income regardless of these types of developments. If there was no new development like this, every neighborhood near the loop would be far more expensive because it would all be eaten up by higher income homeowners.
Amen! You’d think for a website called YIMBY we’d have a lot more people who recognize that more housing = cheaper housing, especially in the long run. And all new housing is luxury housing simply because luxury is a marketing term, a developer would be crazy to call their building anything other than luxury