Concrete block has reached the fourth level for the residential development next to the Belmont CTA platform at 919 West Belmont Avenue in Lake View. That’s where Mavrek Development is erecting a five-story, 46-unit building marketed as Belmora. There’s also a brief glimpse of brickwork at street level on the structure’s east façade.
Rendering of Belmora by Eckenhoff Saunders Architects
Rendering of Belmora by Eckenhoff Saunders Architects
Typical dwelling unit rendering by Eckenhoff Saunders Architects
Fitness center rendering by Eckenhoff Saunders Architects
Site context of 919 West Belmont Avenue, via Google Maps
Eckenhoff Saunders Architects designed the project for Mavrek, who are performing their own general contracting duties. They got a permit to begin construction on August 5 of last year, and it came through with a reported cost of $8 million. A permit to add one passenger elevator was issued on February 11.
The building will include studio apartments, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom floors plans for rent, with select residences featuring suspended balconies. All dwelling units will be contained within the four upper floors, with the first floor adding 5,800 square feet of retail space, a fitness room, and a residential lobby. Parking for the Transit Oriented Development will be limited to just half a dozen surface spaces.
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
From the Belmont L platform. Photo by Daniel Schell
The back of the building from the Belmont platform. Photo by Daniel Schell
From the alley. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Some brickwork on the east side of construction. Photo by Daniel Schell
The construction site was cleared of a row of two-story apartments over retail spanning 915 to 925 West Belmont last year. That work was authorized under a single demolition permit issued to 915 West Belmont on July 18, with work getting underway immediately. A.G. Coyle Development was named in that permit as the demo contractor at a reported cost of $185,000.
Peering through the shop window at the remains of what used to be 917 West Belmont, July 2025. Photo by Daniel Schell
Demolition, July 2025. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Belmora is about 100 feet from the Belmont Red/Brown/Purple Line elevated platform, and the #77 Belmont bus also stops here. One block east at North Clark Street are stops for the #22 bus, and one more block beyond that are stops for Route 8 buses at North Halsted Street.
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This thing is kind of junky. A little too much value engineering from Mavrek recently
Yeah! It looks like they didn’t even finish it!
😂
I know they’re leaving a portion of this site undeveloped, clearly to do some kind of future phase II with the Ann Sather site that was originally included in the large scheme but until then, the open space next to this building really hurts the dense, walkable feel of this street.
Yes it really does, in the way so many urban design books discuss so clearly. In the meantime, hopefully it at least gets used for outdoor space for people instead of parking cars.
Yup, and you know it’ll be years before anything is put there so we’ll likely be stuck walking by a quasi parking lot that further impedes pedestrian activity for a while.
Oh Belmora.. . I don’t quite adora!
Excited for the Foxtrot that inevitably opens here ;).