The City of Chicago has issued a new construction permit for a million-dollar-plus home at 4442 North Greenview Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood. Heritage Luxury Builders of Northfield is the developer of the home. The permit names Amazing City LLC as the general contractor, working on a design by Hanna Architects.
Tree service work on November 9. Photo by Daniel Schell
From the alley. Photo by Daniel Schell
4442 North Greenview Avenue. Photo by Daniel Schell
From the alley. Photo by Daniel Schell
The subject property is a surface parking lot formerly used by the First Spanish Christian Church at 1501 West Sunnyside Avenue. That church was demolished in January of this year to make way for three single-family homes at 4454-4458 North Greenview. The parking lot is still being used to stage construction equipment for those homes, but a crew was on the site the day after the permit was issued on November 7, to remove trees and old fencing from the property. By the weekend, site prep equipment had been moved onto the lot.
The permit calls for a two-story home with a basement, plus a detached three-car garage off the alley, topped by a roof deck. It does not specify this as an owner-occupied development, signifying it’s being built on spec. The estimated construction cost is just under $1.1 million.
From the alley. Photo by Daniel Schell
From the alley. Photo by Daniel Schell
New construction permit issued 11/07/2024, via Chicago Data Portal
4442 North Greenview Avenue will be located within a one-block walk of CTA bus service via Route 22 at Clark Street, while the recently-rerouted Route 9 bus is available a block away at Sunnyside and Ashland. A ten-minute walk southwest leads to the Montrose Brown Line platform, while the Ravenswood Metra UP-N station is about the same distance northwest.
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One reason all parking minimums need to be removed everywhere in the city. Churches are required to provide off street parking which keeps a neighborhood from filling in a missing “tooth” like this, plus the city receives zero tax revenue from either the church or its parking lot. So even though this is going to be an expensive and massive single family house, in terms of revenue, aesthetics and vibrancy, it’s still a net-benefit to the city and the neighbors.
Can we make a law that your new construction can’t provide less capacity than your most dense neighbor? A new single family home between an existing 2 flat and a 3 flat should not happen.
Those existing flats are over 100 years old and granfathetred in. The area was down-zoned to RS-3 some time ago because this city is run by knuckled-headed imbeciles.
RS-3 = SFH for a typical Chicago lot.
If you want to see greater MFH density on the city’s side streets, then start by reversing the 8 billion acres of the city that have been stupidly downzoned to RS-3 over the decades.