The Chicago City Council has approved plans for the residential development at 1801 North Winnebago Avenue in Bucktown. Sitting at the intersection with West Bloomingdale Avenue and just across the street from the 606 Trail, the project has been in the works for a few months after revealing new renderings this past February.
Site context map of 1801 N Winnebago Ave by Red Architects
Efforts for the project are being led by a local developer under an LLC who has been working with Bucktown-based Red Architects. Plans call for a new four-story building set to replace an existing parking lot that has seen multiple other proposals over the last few years, including a self-storage building that never moved forward.
Floor plans of 1801 N Winnebago Ave by Red Architects
The 51-foot-tall structure will hold a small lobby and mail room on the ground floor, along with a 23-space parking garage and bike parking room. The remaining floors will hold a total of 30 residential units, of which 20 percent will be considered affordable. Layouts will be made up of nine studios and 21 two-bedrooms, ranging from 408 to 1,096 square feet in size.
Elevation of 1801 N Winnebago Ave by Red Architects
Future residents will have access to a small shared rooftop deck facing the city. The building will be clad in a mix of cream brick along with black metal windows and accents. With City Council approval in hand, the team can now move forward with pulling permits and redeveloping the parking lot, though no timeline is currently known.
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Way better than the self-storage proposal, though it would be nice to see more TOD-friendly development on lots like these…
A four story structure needing this much approval is ridiculous. Chicago looks bad for this bureaucracy
Yes, and why not get involved in an organization and help change the baseline zoning review requirements?
Don’t be silly, that’s no fun at all compared to being an anonymous online rando cosplaying as the righteous preaching among the fallen….this interwebs thing is great!
They could be doing that! You don’t know!
If I were to guess, people in this comment section are way more likely to be involved in zoning related activism than the typical Chicagoan.
You’d be guessing wrong. The lack of knowledge here in the permit and zoning process betrays their lack of true involvement.
Z didn’t say anything incorrect. They said how they want things to be, and they are allowed to have that opinion even after getting involved in Zoning Activism.
I believe this is within a TOD zone, meaning the developer chose to provide those parking spaces.
The nerve!
Funny how much less heat this project has gotten compared to the one on Milwaukee just a block over.
The parking ratio is less than the other development so I think it didn’t garner as much attention. I know that was a big sticking point with people on the Milwaukee development. The other sticking point for Milwaukee came from neighbors on this side of the tracks. They are complaining that it being higher than the El would cause more train noise to flood the neighborhood. Since this is on the other side of the tracks, pushing noise in the opposite direction, they’re silent.
Good to see this get developed but why not have 6 stories and 40% more apartments which would match the height of the buildings the other side of the 606?
It does take nerve to sacrifice political capital for more parking.