A local developer has received permission to build the first of two multi-unit residential buildings on the 6100 block of North Kenmore Avenue in the Edgewater neighborhood. 4 Star Builders landed approval for a five-story, 40-unit project at 6143 North Kenmore Avenue on February 18. The permit, which comes with a reported cost of $5 million for the work to be done, was applied for on December 11 of last year.
The subject parcel is a surface parking lot that spans approximately 6137 through 6153 North Kenmore. To its immediate south is Marquise Apartments at 6133 North Kenmore, a vintage seven-story rental building erected in 1932. On the south side of that building, 4 Star has a pending permit to erect a four-story, 18-unit project at 6125 North Kenmore. That permit was applied for less than a month ago, on February 10. Both new developments are designs by Hanna Architects, and 4 Star Builders will do the general contracting work.
Note the excavators in the background, wrapping up demolition work at Kindred Hospital.
6143 North Kenmore from the alley. Photo by Daniel Schell
6125 North Kenmore Avenue. Photo by Daniel Schell
6125 North Kenmore from the alley. Photo by Daniel Schell
Across the alley at 6152 North Sheridan Road, Domus Group has a pending permit to build their own Hanna Architects design, which the Chicago Plan Commission approved in November of last year. That project will replace a surface parking lot at the north end of the property that the former Kindred Hospital occupied and whose demolition is all but complete.
Lots going on in this pocket of Edgewater. Image via Google Maps
Kindred Hospital has been demolished.
Getting back to the Kenmore buildings, 6143 will be five stories, with a 40-car garage located in the basement level. There will be two rooftop decks, with one over the exposed portion of the garage level and one atop the fifth floor. The fifth floor deck will include a pergola, a rooftop stair enclosure, and the elevator penthouse. The permit also mentions decks, as opposed to balconies, on all five levels, but does not specify if they’ll be at the front or rear, or both, of the structure. The specifications are eerily similar to those in the pending permit for 6152 North Sheridan.
As of our site visit on March 2, the parking lot at 6143 has been enclosed in construction fencing, but site prep is in order before construction work can begin. No date has been announced for the start of work, nor for completion.
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Build them! Let’s develop all the empty lots in the city once occupied with structures with residential development and space allocated for locally owned businesses, and health and wellness facilities.
All those high rises in the area and they’re building a collection of Hannas.
Here’s something I learned recently. The Lakefront Protection Ordinance as applied to the far north side extends as far as Broadway (almost half a mile from any water, but OK) and caps building heights to approximately 4 to 5 stories. Anything taller is a zoning variation and more significantly, an uphill NIMBY community battle.
A useless layer of bureaucracy to further convolute the process. The city’s zoning really needs an overhaul. All the talk about housing affordability and they do everything imaginable to make it more difficult to build.
Wondering if any of these will add to homeOWNership versus more rental buildings for out of state investors.
If rentals they’ll be available to families who live here. Who cares where the investors live.
Very glad to see all of these parking lots disappear relatively quickly after the sale of Kindred Hospital. The one at 6125 Kenmore was only slightly better maintained than a vacant lot.
That image of the parking lots and the number of units that will replace them is beautiful.
So what’s planned for the Kindred Hospital site then?
I haven’t been able to find a morsel of info on that site.
Interesting $5 million / 40 units = $125,000 per unit ,I know this does not include alot of soft costs , but still beats what the city pays per unit for affordable housing