A two-flat residence has been permitted by the City of Chicago for the property at 6411 South Champlain Avenue in Woodlawn. The entity of Silver Landex JV LLC applied to build on September 24 of last year, and their permission was granted on February 4 with a reported cost of $450,000.
Civic Projects Architecture is named as the architect of record, and M Street Construction of Oak Park will provide general contracting services. The permit calls for two units in a two-story building with a basement. A detached two-car garage will be erected on the alley at the rear of the lot. No other specifications are detailed. It is not known if these will be rental units or for-sale condominiums.
Site context of 6411 South Champlain Avenue, via Google Maps
From the alley, via Google Street View. A two-car garage will go here
The subject parcel is an empty lot. It was previously improved with a two-story masonry residence shown in its most recent Google images in severe disrepair. The city issued an emergency wreck & remove permit for it in January 2018.
6411 South Champlain, circa October 2015, via Google Street View
The middle portion of the 6400 block of South Champlain remains wide open for redevelopment, but on the opposite side of the street, four multi-unit residences have been permitted for recent construction. Three of them, spanning 6412 through 6418 South Champlain, have been completed. A two-flat was permitted at 6440 South Champlain in October of last year.
Three-flat (RED) permitted Feb 2026; Two- and three-flats (YELLOW) permitted 2021-2022; two-flat (BLUE) permitted Oct 2025
Nearby transit options, via Google Street View
Residents of 6411 South Champlain Avenue will live within a four-block walk of the Cottage Grove Green Line platform at 63rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. The CTA’s Route 63 bus makes stops one block north along 63rd Street, and for north-south travel, the #4 bus stops three blocks east on Cottage Grove.
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Can’t wait to see all of those empty parcels filled back up one day..
Love all of the infill development occurring, & I hope that at least some of these will be sold to families that want to own the whole building but have relatives live in the other unit, or rent out the unit.
Keep em coming! I wish developers would refurb older buildings first. The new stuff is awful looking and doesn’t fit the character of Chicago at all. Modern, sleek and…grey. cool, thank/s.
Hopefully the city releases their stranglehold on the commercial lots on 63rd and let’s those get developed.
So much opportunity down here. My mortgage is half what some pay in rent on the Northside for less. Insane self-imposed scarcity up there because everyone feels the need to live in the same 5 neighborhoods.