A demolition permit was issued May 5th for a two-story single-family residence and its two garages at 4142 North Greenview Avenue in the Lake View Community Area’s Graceland West neighborhood. The permit follows on the heels of permission to construct a new SFR on the same lot. That permit was applied for on March 31st and issued April 21st, with a reported construction cost of $650,000.
Site context via Google Maps
Rendering of 4142 North Greenview via Environs Development
4142 North Greenview, before the siding was stripped away prior to demolition. Via Google Street View
Environs Development on Lincoln Avenue in Lake View is the developer, architect of record, and general contractor for the forthcoming residence, keeping the new house entirely in-house. Precision Excavation is named as the demolition contractor for the old structure. The only details mentioned in the permit are that this will be Type 5A frame construction with an attached masonry two-car garage accessed from the alley off Berteau Avenue.
Demolition fencing surrounds the home, and the siding has been torn off. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
A preview of the home on the Environs website indicates an 8,000-square-foot home with nine-bedrooms and six bathrooms. It is expected to be complete in spring 2026 and available at a price of $4.7 million. Real estate records show the current home was built in 1900. Environs Development purchased it for $1.625 million earlier this year.
The two garages at the rear of the property. Photo by Daniel Schell
Back if the home. Photo by Daniel Schell
4142 North Greenview Avenue is located with a two-block walk of CTA bus service via Route 9, 22, and 80. The Irving Park Brown Line elevated platform is located just over half a mile southwest, at Irving Park Road and Ravenswood Avenue.
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Can you really build a hole that large for $650,000?
I’ve never been one to take the permit’s reported cost literally.
NINE BEDROOMS?!?!?
9 bedrooms is absolutely massive but 4.7 million is A LOT for Graceland West. That’s 6 flat money.
Another developer who knows nothing about rehabbing. Just demolishing homes with history for a McMansion.
That is not a very appealing design, even compared to others in Environs portfolio. Graceland West is filled with a variety of beautiful and interesting homes, including a lot of huge Victorian homes. But, there are also newer homes, and most of them have creative interesting designs. The houses all around this property are diverse and well designed. But not a single one of them is boring or looks like it has a medical office facade like this. At least it is not gray, or at least doesn’t appear gray in the rendering. They could have been way more creative in this neighborhood. Instead, it seems that they are going with something so conservative and plain that it looks like it belongs in Naperville.