Plans for a new residential tower at 1415 North Dayton Street in Lincoln Park are advancing after receiving approval from the Committee on Zoning. Initially revealed earlier this year, the project is moving through the approval process rather quickly, having also received Plan Commission approval in late March.
Massing of 1415 N Dayton St by bKL Architecture
Efforts for the project have been led collaboratively by Honore Properties and Peerless Development, with local firm bKL Architecture working on the design. The site sits on the corner with West Evergreen Avenue and is currently occupied by a small industrial building that will need to come down prior to construction of the new 28-story tower.
Rendering of 1415 N Dayton St by bKL Architecture
The 311-foot-tall building will be anchored by a five-story podium clad in gray brick and gold-colored accents. The ground floor will feature a large lobby in order to activate the majority of the streetfront, with the rest being taken up by back-of-house spaces and a ramp up to the 160-vehicle parking garage. This will be capped by an outdoor deck.
Ground floor plan of 1415 N Dayton St by bKL Architecture
Floor plans of 1415 N Dayton St by bKL Architecture
The rest of the glass-clad tower will contain 340 residential units made up of 105 studios, 190 one-bedroom, 42 two-bedroom, and three three-bedroom layouts. Of the unit total, 68 will be considered affordable. The top floors of the tower will be set back to allow for a large rooftop amenity space connected to an outdoor deck with a pool facing the city.
Rendering of 1415 N Dayton St by bKL Architecture
Select units will feature small outdoor balconies along the corners of the structure. As a whole, the $102 million project will join other developments in the nearby area working toward delivering nearly 1,000 units in total. With the initial zoning approval in hand, the team will now just need to gain one final approval from City Council prior to its year-end groundbreaking date.
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Build it. Too many little, short, squat buildings.
This and 1565 N Clybourn. Let’s gooo
What’s the status of that one?
oh i have no idea. haven’t seen an update in months but saw in the rendering above and got excited. better location than the foundry or this one, so not sure where the feet dragging is coming from
Make what you will of this permit: https://x.com/BuildingChi/status/2049920550084981152?s=20
The podium design is a huge mistake that’ll negatively impact and shape this neighborhoods for decades to come. The increased density is great, but not the prison-like hostile podium design.
This might unseat NEXT apartments as the ugliest podium in the city.
AMLI River North would like a word.
Honestly though, I don’t understand all the hate the podium is getting. It’s not a *great* podium by any means, but a great podium has residential units lining the outside, and we sadly have far too few of those in Chicago.
Aesthetically, what is any worse here than the podium on Foundry just down the street?
So, another giant tower hostile to families. THREE 3-bedroom units? So if you have 2 kids, boy and girl, forget living here. The planning commission is clearly content with family flight to the suburbs.
The mix of apts and bedrooms comes from advice of the RE brokers hired by the developer. If that’s what they say is salable, then that’s what they’re going to build.
If you’re going to make zoning concessions, in turn you should demand a better design than this dreck
We really need less parking podiums but Chicago gets so little development as is (for such a large city) so we gotta take what we can get to encourage and normalize more growth in areas like this that should be more built up already
Do they need that much parking? Red line station is right there
Man what an awful podium. Car-brain really is a scourge on the city. 6 min walk to North/Clybourn. SMH
Happy it’s getting built, but we’re also losing some classic brick warehouses and an old rooftop water tower.
This podium is horrendous. Is there any reason liner units couldn’t be used to at least soften the impact? They are shown on the West Loop project in today’s posts.
Hahaha, yeah I think they’re competing with nearby Foundry for the ugliest podium. 😂
Retail should be required to activate the podium. A few blocks away they are building a bunch of retail with no apartments on top. Makes no sense.
instead , bring the tower’s facade all the way down to the sidewalk . Current iteration screams CHEAP
Throw the whole lot of buildings in the rubbish. These mostly short buildings are a waste of space. They could have put all of them on top of each other to make a real building for Chicago. So uninspired. So forgetful.
Chicago is slacking with the size of their buildings. Why can’t Chicago build taller buildings like New York City? Oh wait I think I know why, because investors don’t want to deal with the crazy property tax in the city and the city is broke.
So leave, already.
In no world is this Lincoln Park.
It is south of North, which means it is in the Near North Side community area. It is a mile as the crow flies to the nearest corner of the actual greenspace known as Lincoln Park.
We need a name for this part of town. “North/Clybourn” has been my preference, but I am open to almost anything other than Lincoln Park.
I’ve taken to affectionately calling everything south of Willow and west of Halsted “Lincoln Parking Lot.”
You’re right, south of North Avenue technically is no longer Lincoln Park, but Near North Side sounds like a general direction not a neighborhood name, and demographics in this area are same as Lincoln Park. So they attach it to it.
Yeah i’ve heard “Clybourn Corridor” thrown around. It has an industrial vibe that matches and sounds more appealing to investors than Cabrini-Green. Maybe Wild Mile if Weed Street had stayed a good night out.
I second Clay’s nickname, haha.
North Ballywood
The grey and gold kills it for me. All that money spent on development and they couldn’t hire anyone who’d ever seen colors before? Lowers my opinion of the entire development firm and any claim they make towards being professionals
This podium, while I do get the designers intention to mimic/nod to the warehouses that historically surrounded this location, is a fail. It needs to be wrapped with residences to activate the street experience.
If anything, I do deliveries in this area and there needs to be drop-off zones. It’s extremely crowded on these few blocks. The people in these buildings get everything delivered. It’s kind of comical. I can’t tell you how many Instacart orders of one grocery bag that I have done from that Marino’s to a building within a five-minute walk.