Six permits were issued by the City of Chicago on March 10 to build affordable single-family residences on South Stark Street in Bridgeport. The homes are part of a larger development that has already seen several townhomes and standalone buildings on the block bound by Stark Street, Hillock Avenue, Throop Street, and the rail tracks. Skyriver Throop Development LLC is behind the project, which replaces a light industrial building demolished back in 2018. MPI Contracting is named in the permits as the general contractor.
The three homes at the cul-de-sac, via Google Street View. The six new homes will be built immediately to the right of these.
This portion of empty lot will get six new single-family homes, via Google Street View
The Stark Street homes cover parcels from 2514 to 2526 South. Designed by Vari Architects, they will be two-story with basement houses, each with a detached two-car garage located at the back of the lots. At the cul-de-sac of the dead-end street, three homes at 2528, 2532, and 2534 South Stark from Skyriver Throop already stand. Those were permitted on August 27, 2021. Real estate records show all three of them had been sold by the end of 2023. Like the most recent half-dozen, the estimated construction cost for each home is $237,000.
Looking southeast from Hillock Avenue at the row of houses permitted in 2018, via Google Street View
Hillock Avenue homes, via Google Street View
Along Hillock Avenue, Skyriver Throop built 11 more single-family homes with the same team of Vari Architects and MPI Contracting. 2553 through 2579 South Hillock were all permitted in 2018, shortly after demolition was complete of the industrial building. Behind those homes, on Throop Street, all three team members collaborated again to build two rows of townhomes in two phases. Nine townhomes were permitted for 2615 South Throop in August 2020, and nine more received a permit in September 2022. Each unit is a two-story with basement home, with a two-car garage attached to each residence.
Fancy color-coded context of the full-block development, via Google Maps
The image above shows the four phases of the development. In green at the lower right are the three new SFRs on Stark Street. Next to that, in red, is the site for the six homes that have just been permitted. Framed in blue are the 11 homes along Hillock Avenue, and in tan are the two rows of townhomes on Throop Street.
Residents of the block live within a five-mile walk of the Halsted Orange Line elevated platform, which also acts as a hub for Route 8, 44, and 62 buses. The Route 62 bus at Archer Avenue is three blocks away, and can be used to connect to that hub.
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$237K per house, that is impossible in this market.
I was thinking the same thing. How did they get the build done for only 237? Two floors AND a basement!
when the city of chicago builds what it calls “afforable housing” it usually costs $800,000 to build per unit. amazing what can be done for $237,000 when the government does not play developer.
Living that close to a highway is gonna create some costly health outcomes to make up for that discounted price…
Sounds like an argument to get rid of urban expressways.
Let’s do it!!
Let’s walk EVERYWHERE instead! Better yet, let’s all buy donkeys for transportation!
I love the walk EVERWHERE idea!!
Donkeys would be too smelly/messy.
Prefabricated homes and gonna sell for a lots more
The comparable homes mentioned (i.e. 2534 S Stark) sold for $679,900 after construction. It seems like they are playing a game with the permit fee.
Doesn’t seem to bother all those residents who live in all those condos, townhouses, apartments and houses built immediately next to the Kennedy Expressway.