A new four-story with basement residential building has reached its ultimate height at 2218 North Burling Street in Lincoln Park. The three-unit condominium building is being constructed by Promised Land Development, who are both the general contractor and developer. They’re making great progress; this was still undergoing foundation work when we snuck a peek in May.
2218 North Burling Street. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Built 1888, demolished 2024. Via @properties
The building replaces a former single-family residence built in 1888 that sold in December of last year for $2.15 million after seven+ months on the market. It received a demolition permit on March 6 of this year, with EZMB handling the demolition.
Foundation work, May 5, 2024. Photo by Daniel Schell
Foundation work, May 5, 2024. Photo by Daniel Schell
The new homes will feature rear terraces at each floor, connected by a steel stairway. A rooftop deck will be accessed by an enclosed stairway. A detached three-car garage will also be topped with a roof deck. Hanna Architects is the architect of record.
Steel terraces and stairway. . Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
From the alley. Photo by Daniel Schell
Residents of 2218 North Burling Street will be within a two-block walk of stops for CTA bus service via the 8, 37, and 74 buses. The nearest elevated train is the Fullerton Red/Brown/Purple Line platform about half a mile northwest.
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ugh. destroy beauty and replace it with cookie cutter crap.
oh well. hopefully it leads to three more people living and loving chicago
Usually we get a historic two- or three-flat knocked down for a single family home. So I guess the other way around is better. Still don’t love this though.
This has got to STOP.
Funny how YIMBY turns into NIMBY quickly when it involves a vintage building.
Yeah – funny that YIMBYs are capable of something other than knee-jerk reactions. Seems to almost imply thinking independently.
YIMBY never means “build anything no matter what, there will be no consequences.” Are you really that dense?
Historic preservation and YIMBY can and do exist alongside each other, especially in a place like Chicago where land ins’t that valuable. We have so many other places to build while preserving buildings like this. We can’t preserve everything, but something like this absolutely feels like a punch in the gut to anyone who cares about Chicago history, YIMBY or not
I agree that historic preservation and YIMBY can coexist with one another. II believe the street presence of this particular project isn’t bad, and it improves the density of the area. The rear looks like everything else of that type, which isn’t great, but I think people see “nice old house” getting demoed and automatically believe it should be saved. Historic preservation has been weaponized by NIMBYs to keep entire neighborhoods from densifying. We can argue about the architectural quality of old vs new, but the belief that Chicago has other neighborhoods where density can happen while we keep others single family density because of the quality of the architecture has tinges of nimbyism to me.