The Chicago Plan Commission has approved the upcoming residential development at 1415 North Dayton Street in Lincoln Park. Initially revealed in February, additional details have now been published as part of the review process ahead of City Council consideration. The project is being led by Honore Properties and Peerless Development.
Massing of 1415 N Dayton St by bKL Architecture
Rendering of 1415 N Dayton St by bKL Architecture
Local firm bKL Architecture is designing the 28-story tower, which will include a five-story podium anchored by a 163-space parking garage. While there will be no ground-floor retail, the lobby will span most of the street frontage along the corner with West Evergreen Avenue, with the parking garage accessed from the alley.
Ground floor plan of 1415 N Dayton St by bKL Architecture
Floor plans of 1415 N Dayton St by bKL Architecture
Residential units will begin on the sixth floor, alongside an amenity room and a large outdoor deck. In total, the project will include 340 units, consisting of 105 studios, 190 one-bedroom units, 42 two-bedroom units, and three three-bedroom layouts. Of the total, 68 units will be designated as affordable.
Rendering of 1415 N Dayton St by bKL Architecture
The tower will be clad in a glass curtain wall system with a decorative metal panel grid and will be capped by a large rooftop deck featuring a small pool. The development carries an estimated $102 million price tag and must still receive full city approval before moving forward. If all goes according to plan, the team expects to break ground by the end of the year.
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Build it but man I’m so tired of parking podiums.
Same, they make for the ugliest, anti-social buildings. It’s basically screaming, come have a vertical suburban life in the city, who cares about everyone else who has to stare at these monstrosities for decades to come. What a dud this podium is.
Chicago, where uninspired meets repetition. I don’t think this city is capable of producing anything more than forgettable filler at this point.
The blankwalls are shockingly awful. Again, they sever the connection between the pedestrian experience and occupants of the building foregoing that vital relationship which promotes a feeling of safety and intimacy in favor of a sterility inducing garage. How difficult is mandating active uses in liner units at a minimum. Here’s the legacies of Bertrand Goldberg and Mies in tandem.
So much noise…
Big fan of parking podiums and blue boxes here. Good for you, enjoy.
You should try to find a second thought to express, it’s fun
OMG – this is an awful design. It’s a boring glass box thrown on top of an awful podium. There’s no design connection between the two. Come in bKL, you can do much better.
So what’s the solution if excavating to create (in this case) four stories of underground parking makes projects like this one financially infeasible without the parking podiums? I’ve read these comments on YIMBY about ugly podiums for years, but does anyone have a solution? And public transportation, unfortunately, is not the answer in this particular neighborhood. I wish the podiums weren’t a necessity in many instances, but we need the housing, and street-level retail, which is chronically vacant these days, does not always offer a harmonious or engaging pedestrian experience.
Liner units, look what they recently did at 1338 W. Lake. It significantly enhanced the design and now it engages the street seamlessly. Chicago has all kinds of bureaucratic oversight that projects must adhere to but mandating active uses would be one that guarantees an improved outcome.
I’d suggest public transportation is quite strong in this immediate area – you have the 24-hour Red Line stop at North/Clybourn, bus service on Halsted and North, 1-2 blocks from a huge Mariano’s, Whole Foods and Target. While the car traffic can be intense in this little pocket. You could feasibly live and walk to anything you needed.
What if you work in the suburbs, or (like friends of mine who live in this part of Lincoln Park) you’re a school teacher who works in part of the city underserved by public transportation? If public transportation works seamlessly for you, that’s wonderful, but I bet many people would like to live in this section of Lincoln Park for all the reasons you’ve cited but cannot readily access work (or daycare, children’s school, etc.) via public transportation. I wish we weren’t so car-dependent as a society, but having leased office buildings for many years, I can tell you that for tenants paying new construction rents, parking still matters.
Why would you choose to live here instead of living closer to any of our number of highways, or in the suburbs? We can’t come up with endless “what if” scenarios or else we are just perpetuating existing car-dependency.
Maybe they want to live in Lincoln Park. Why should a lack of parking decide who gets to live where? I’m all for a less car dependent society but why should someone who works in Lisle or Northbrook not be able to live in Lincoln Park because they’re not able to take the Red Line to work?
All these no parking people are funny. If only you’d have the same energy for crime on the L. Barely anyone who pays 3k+ a month for one bedroom uses L in Chicago if you didn’t know.
Lots of existing retail in this area, including a large mall two blocks away, so I don’t buy that every new project must add retail. There is also a four block residential townhouse community a block away so adding residential density where people want to live is beneficial for the city…perhaps why this project was approved by people who are not obsessed with a hatred for cars or an imaginary world where everyone is tyrannically required to use transit, scooters or bicycles.
“imaginary world where everyone is tyrannically required to use transit, scooters or bicycles.”
That truly is imaginary, never heard anyone actually advocate for that in Chicago, especially people who want less parking.
Nobody wants to reckon with the fact that parking spaces are a draw for people looking to live in that area especially. Right near the highway etc. Sad reality in the city but it is true.
idc how boring the design is, this area needs more housing which is more important. Hopefully this can also encourage more mid and high rises in the area
I’m not necessarily anti-parking, more limited parking and if you are going to include parking, don’t make it a major design feature of the building that everyone from the street gets to see. What I AM a big proponent of is more dedicated pick-up/drop-off zones for these buildings. A very large amount of residents in these buildings utilize rideshare, grocery delivery, food delivery, etc. However, no one accounts where these cars are supposed to park to deliver or pick-up. 15-minute flashing zones on the street aren’t enough, there should be dedicated driveways or areas within the building design. That’s something I think that is rarely addressed in these new builds.
Shame that this generic thing is replacing a cool loft building. This area (North/Clybourn) is getting a ton of residential built. Hopefully commercial will follow, but the space for that already exists. New City has plenty of empty retail and that horrid stretch of North between Halsted and Sheffield is largely big boxes vacant. Think these spaces are all too big for small local businesses, and doubt this one would have better sized retail locations that attract anything but more chains.
Dislike the design but glad to get more housing here. Maybe it will finally inspire the city to do something with the empty Cabrini Green lots a few blocks east.
In case people care about updates, just north of the red line stop, the old Royal George Theater is FINALLY done demolition and just clearing out debris (no idea why this took two months) while 750 w north has a nice red I beam to highlight the ground floor and looks to be progressing nicely. The parking heavy 1660 n burling condos seem to have the basement built out too.