Details have been revealed for a new proposal at 1450 North Larrabee Street in the Near North Side. The new plans follow the previous development team’s withdrawal from the project and the city’s issuance of a new RFP earlier this year. This time, efforts are being led by Evergreen Real Estate Group and KLEO Enterprise, in collaboration with the CHA.
PREVIOUS rendering of Cabrini Green redevelopment by JGMA
The multi-phase development will fill the seven-acre vacant lot that once housed the North Career Metropolitan High School. Design efforts are being led by Pappageorge Haymes Partners and SmithGroup. Site work will include a new diagonal access road, running parallel to North Clybourn Avenue, along with parking.
Rendering for Cabrini New Vision by Pappageorge Haymes Partners and SmithGroup
Around this new road will be four mid-rise buildings, each with a slightly different design and varying heights. These will include 450 apartments, 180 of which will be CHA units. To the east of the mid-rises will be a new, publicly accessible central park, which will be surrounded by an additional 75 units in the form of townhomes and for-sale condos.
Rendering for Cabrini New Vision by Pappageorge Haymes Partners and SmithGroup
The overall development will be built in five phases and is expected to take around six years to complete. However, the team hopes to expedite the timeline and break ground in approximately 18 months. Before that, they will need to conduct several rounds of community input and obtain city approval.
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20 years later the project will still be delayed because they didn’t consult the 8 members of the local church causing perpetual delays.
Agreed. Chicago needs to do something about the never ending community review process – accept that you can’t (and shouldn’t) make everyone happy. This city needs housing, construction jobs, and a growing tax base more than it needs 100% community buy-in or a ‘perfect’ design.
This community needs housing, but it also needs other things that make a community like a grocery store, a coffee shop, a local restaurant. Cabrini Green is still a desert when it comes to anything but vacant lots and sporadic housing.
There’s a Marianos’, Jewel, and Target, not sure if another grocery is a definite need.
Big yes to more amenities and other businesses, but it’s a void of people around there. You need the residences to support the shops. Lay the foundations to move in, but maximize the density. This area can easily support several thousand people. It’s a joke to replace real density with small townhouses.
This particular site is on Clybourn, and the site is literally across the street from the New City Mariano’s, 1 block north of Target, and a quarter mile from Jewel at Clybourn/Division. Re Daniel’s transit comment below – 7 min walk to North/Clybourn Red from the west side of the site and 8 min walk to Sedgwick Brown from the east side.
Cabrini area south of Division is certainly a bit more isolated… but this site is a no brainer for resi development.
This is literally across the street from New City.
There’s a Starbucks and a Jewel Osco a block away from this site, and a Mariano’s and a shopping mall a block away in the other direction
It baffles me that this massive development does not come coupled with a new proposal for a CTA station at the intersection of Clybourn and Larrabee, that would make this an infinitely more attractive area to live if it had a CTA station residents could access within less than a 5 min walk.
CTA is exploring a brown line station at Division. No way the CTA will be able to afford an underground station ever again unless they can manage to get costs in order.
Instead of selling former Cabrini lands to the highest bidder to plug budget holes and building proper commercial density for this area and get 5x more affordable units there and built CHA units on one of the 10k lots City owns on west and south side, we’re getting this. 🤦🏻♂️ but at least CHA residents will live downtown, since it’s such an obstacle to take a 15 min train ride from half empty west side. Mismanagement at its finest.
Where do I start with your very troubling statements? First, part of the CHA mission is to return affordable units (in Cabrini Green) where they used to be (in Cabrini Green). Second, a market rate development would have fewer (not more) affordable units based on city requirements. Third, proper commerical density is highly subjective. Fourth, your implication that CHA residents don’t deserve to live downtown speaks for itself.
right, it was bulldozed for no reason, need to bring it back in the exact same spot. Lol. One single block of Cabrini left overs requires a 24/7 police patrol car so they won’t kill each other out, let’s build some more there. Makes sense. Unfortunately I lived next door to it, do not recommend. Unless you enjoy regular shootings outside of your windows.
Exactly. The failure of this city and state rests squarely with the voters who elect these moronic clowns who have mismanaged and continue to kneecap the city’s future. Prime property downtown that could generate billions of tax revenues for the astronomical debt is instead going to be handed to the most useless and destructive class of citizens which will act like a cancer and depress nearby parcels too. We tried this, it failed spectacularly, so now we are going to do it again but “nicer”. End HUD at the Federal level and all this grift goes away. Let the idiots of IL and Chicago fund their own boondoggles.
I was trying to say it nicely but you expressed exactly my thoughts. 💯
Don’t understand the comments above at all There are lots of good reasons why Cabrini was bulldozed. There is already a large amount of expensive housing where Cabrini used to be with some affordable housing and CHA units mixed in. That was the goal. Its working . The city needs to continue to encourage private mixed income developments in other neighborhoods
Wait a second, that first rendering is supposed to be the new one? Look in the background…
Those are the *original Cabrini-Green high rises* on Division in the background! Demolished 15 years ago! Either that is a file rendering from 2010, or something has gone terribly wrong at Pappageorge Haynes.
They’re definitely not proposing to rebuild them. I agree it’s weird they included those lol
Those aren’t the real buildings, they’re just ghosts from Candyman.
a 40/60 ratio of CHA to market-rate seems too high. Have we not learned that concentrated low-income housing is a generally not a good idea?
Right? Lol as if anyone will be paying market rate to live in the same building with CHA, good luck to them with that. It’ll be another 20 years until they’ll secure funding under those conditions.
what’s with all the conservative nimbys and racial dog whistle nonsense from people like Max? ahistorical nonsensical trolls don’t belong on this site.