A two-unit residential project has begun rising at 4243 North Damen Avenue in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood. GL-88 LLC is erecting the residences, replacing a three-story building permitted for removal from the site on October 28 of last year. Pavlovcik Architecture is the architect of record.
The construction permit for the two-flat, issued December 2, 2024, made no mention of the number of stories included in the new building. We now know this will be a two-story structure, a detail mentioned in a pending permit in the Chicago Data Portal that allows for a 19-foot-tall, one-story coach house at the rear of the property. There will be a basement included along with a single Additional Dwelling Unit. As with the principal building permit, there is no mention of on-site parking. The ADU application was filed on New Year’s Eve.
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
From the alley, looking west. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
4243 North Damen Avenue was permitted for demolition in October 2024. Photo by Daniel Schell
Excavation work, December 2024. Photo by Daniel Schell
4243 North Damen Avenue is less than half a block from stops for CTA Route 50 Damen buses. For east-west travel, Route 78 bus stops are within a two-block walk north at Montrose Avenue, with the Montrose Brown Line elevated platform just two blocks east of those bus stops. To the south, the Route 80 bus runs east-west along Irving Park Road; the Irving Park Brown Line platform is two blocks from there to the east.
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How are they building a two-flat in RS3 with the lot area per unit limits? Is the lot big enough?