Plans have been revealed for a new residential development at 1282 West Washington Boulevard in the West Loop. Located mid-block between North Ada Street and North Elizabeth Street, the proposal would replace an existing one-story commercial building on the western end of the neighborhood. A project website can be found here.
Site context map of 1282 W Washington Blvd via Google Maps
Efforts for the project are being led by ZSD Corp and Corwin Partners, along with an unknown designer. The building itself will rise five-stories and around 60-feet in height featuring corner balconies and symmetrical inset window bays along the streetfront. The structure will be clad in a white brick exterior with stepping details.
Rendering 1282 W Washington Blvd via ZSD Corp and Corwin Partners
Rendering 1282 W Washington Blvd via ZSD Corp and Corwin Partners
Inside will be a 32-space climate controlled parking garage and 16 high-end condominiums. The units themselves will be made up of four- and five-bedroom layouts with separate office spaces. Each unit will feature large terraces and bespoke interiors, with select units also having direct private elevator entrances.
Rendering 1282 W Washington Blvd via ZSD Corp and Corwin Partners
Rendering 1282 W Washington Blvd via ZSD Corp and Corwin Partners
Dubbed “single-family” condominiums, the building falls within Skinner West Elementary’s district and units range in cost from $1.75 to $4 million. The project will need to clear some zoning variances prior to moving forward, but is expected to begin delivering units in the fall of 2027. A sales center is now open at 1151 West Madison Street.
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Love it.
What is with the ground floor and the windows, looks like brutalist prison windows. I still welcome the new development, but I think they need to make the ground floor less anti-social with the street.
The ground floor is jam packed with parking spaces, which is why it is so pedestrian hostile.
2:1 parking ratio is crazy for this location. You have to go out of your way to use 2 cars regularly in this area when every unit also includes a work from home office.
Add 2 units to the ground floor, & reduce the parking to 18 spaces, & this becomes a nice little condo building, as it would at least have windows on the ground floor & those ground floor insets would actually be functional patios.
As opposed to multi-family condo units??
“single family condo” is some new buzzword to say that it is as big as a single family home/McMansion but in a condo structure.
Looks like they each will have a quarter of the floor with elevator opening to your own door.
These condos will sell in the millions, and if they have any hope of catching these prices then one parking spot won’t cut it.
Don’t shoot the messenger. But that’s just how it is in Chicago
Exactly
Beautiful brick work. Some real relief in the masonry.
For everyone complaining that the street front isn’t very pedestrian friendly, remember that retail space goes begging these days, and no sensible person wants an apartment with windows directly on the street. I don’t know of an alternative.