A pair of new construction permits issued two days apart will allow six residential units on West Jackson Boulevard in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. Identical permits for 2744 and 2746 West Jackson were issued on November 24 and November 25 respectively. Each was applied for on September 12, and they both came through with reported costs of $450,000.
Site context, via Google Maps
Hancock Management Construction Company is both the developer and general contractor, working with designs by architect of record Victor Drapszo. The permits call for three-story plus basement structures with three units in each. Rear stairways will connect porches on each level, and three-space parking pads will be added at the alley connecting South California and South Washtenaw Avenues.
The same crew teamed up on a residence next door at 2740 West Jackson, another three-unit building permitted for construction in November 2021. Google images show that building to be completed and occupied.
2740 West Jackson, by the same development team, via Google Street View
Nearby CTA options, via Google Maps
2744 and 2746 West Jackson are located just east of the intersection of Jackson Boulevard and California Avenue, where the CTA’s Route 26 bus stops for east-west travel, and the Route 126 bus stops going north and south. Three elevated train platforms lie within three-quarter-mile walks, including the Western Blue Line, Kedzie-Homan Blue Line, and California Green Line.
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Great to see private investment in these areas… somehow these builders can build units for far less than the $1,000,000 affordable apartments from city hall, inc.
And from the look of it, these units will be far larger than the – on average – one bedroom units the city lavishly subsidizes.
Could it be that the key to affordable housing turns out to be getting the government out of the picture? Big, if true!