Initial details have been released for a new residential development at 6935 N Sheridan Road in Rogers Park. Located at the southeast corner of Sheridan and W Morse Avenue, the project will replace a one-story commercial building that formerly housed Leona’s Restaurant. The proposal was shared earlier this week by 49th Ward Alderwoman Maria Hadden.
Site context map of 6935 N Sheridan Road via Google Maps
The Leona’s site has been a topic of debate within the community for nearly a decade. According to Block Club, the restaurant closed six years ago, and since then, a variety of uses—including another restaurant and a dispensary—have been proposed for the existing structure. However, the high cost of restoring the building ultimately stalled those plans.
View of 6935 N Sheridan Road via Google Maps
Now, the current property owner is moving forward with plans for a new six-story building. The ground floor will include a 42-space parking garage accessible via the alley, with clerestory windows facing the street. This parking count is relatively high for a site designated as a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), given that it’s just two blocks from the Morse Red Line stop.
View of 6935 N Sheridan Road via Google Maps
Rendering of 6935 N Sheridan Road via 49th Ward
The upper floors will house 81 residential units, including 16 designated as affordable housing. The exact unit breakdown has not yet been disclosed. The design includes inset balconies, expansive top-floor terraces, and a façade of red brick combined with black metal panels.
Additional details about the project remain limited, but a community meeting is scheduled for April 30th. A link to the meeting can be found here. Following local approval, the project will need to go through the city’s formal review process before construction can begin.
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This plan looks good. Nice brick design, not too tall for the area.
For a TOD project this is way too many parking spots. City can’t get out of its way.
TOD does not require less parking, it just allows it if the owners want to build less.
Woah this one looks pretty good! Happy for RP although it is a lot of parking spots.
Finally, some good architecture. We found it in RP of all places, this design beats Lakeview and Lincoln Park developments in quality.
Yes, I don’t understand this. I’d kill for these to pop up around Wicker Park and Logan Square as well..
What do you mean of all places?? As if Rogers Park isn’t known to have much better courtyard buildings, quality architecture, and higher density housing than even Lincoln or Lakeview. This is what I would expect from Rogers park minus the parking total.
I agree Rogers Park is my favorite place to walk around and enjoy courtyard architecture. What it lacks in townhomes it makes up for with beautiful apartment buildings. I think they meant that LV and LP have enormous cloud and deep pockets and are still incapable of building anything high density of note.
Hopefully this gets approved but:
1. Rogers Park NIMBYism is a real thing and
2. This could be VE’d to death
enormous clout*** not cloud lol
As a Rogers Parker who attends as many of these community meetings as possible, I can confirm our NIMBY contingent is alive and well. I can alsso summarize all of the objections in advance:
“We want a smaller building with more family and affordable units, no units can be rented to college kids, has off-street parking for every car in the ward, won’t increase traffic (alley and street), preserves the parking lot “open space,” and brings back the beloved Leona’s resturant. And we need to approve the location of the dumpsters.”
This is surprisingly okay, too bad no street level retail is proposed.