The first two permits have been issued for three three-flat residential buildings on the 3000 block of West Lexington Street in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. All three permits include the same specifications, and all three show application start dates of July 2, 2026.
The first permit came through on August 13 for the lot at 3009 West Lexington. It calls for a three-story building with three residential units, specified as apartments, with a reported cost of $640,000. Details include front open decks on the second and third levels and rear egress stairs. No basement is mentioned, nor is there a rooftop deck. Three parking spaces will be added on a concrete slab at the back of the lot, and privacy fencing will enclose the rear yard.
Site context of 3009-3015 West Lexington Street, via Google Maps
Looking west from South Sacramento Boulevard, via Google Street View
One day later, on August 14, a permit came through for 3015 West Lexington. It carries with it the same details as the first permit, but the reported cost is $725,000. A third permit remains pending in the Chicago Data Portal for 3011 West Lexington. Made Group LLC is named as the developer, with IW Capital LLC cited as the general contractor. Both entities are listed with the same physical address. Michael Cox & Associates it the architect of record.
734 South Sacramento Boulevard, via Google Street View, circa September 2014
All three lots are currently vacant. There are additional empty parcels immediately east at the corner with South Sacramento Boulevard, but there are no other pending permits for construction on this portion of the block. That corner has remained unimproved since a two-story brick mixed-use building at 734 South Sacramento which appeared to have been vacant for some time was ordered demolished by the city in July 2015. Chicago architecture enthusiast Gabriel X. Michael documented its razing on Flickr.
Local transit options, via Google Maps
Residents of the new nine units will live within three blocks of several CTA bus routes, include #12 on Sacramento Boulevard, Route 52 west at South Kedzie Avenue, the #7 bus to the north at West Harrison Street, and stops for Route 94 to the east at South California Avenue. The nearest rail access point is for the Kedzie Blue Line platform about four blocks northwest at the Eisenhower Expressway.
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Look at all those empty spots on the map where we could build more two/three flats.
Most of which have been empty for a looong time…its been startling to read here about the steady flow of new two/three flats proposed in that neighborhood. I’d be curious to see a running updated map of them.
Indeed. I read an article recently that said if we just built three flats in all of the vacant parcels that we currently have today, that would increase our population by 300,000. And the city of Chicago is holding many of these empty parcels.
It’s wild the level of development that we’re seeing in East Garfield Park, even south of the highway
Small investors have decided that the ‘downside risk’ is gone in East Garfield Park and they’re moving it. I’m not sure if the powers that be in Chicago are entirely happy about that.
really? Why wouldnt they be happy about that?
He’s trying to make it a social issue. Good ol’ poking the bear with a stick for a tad bit of self-gratification for humor they think is so cheeky.
Why IS so much of Chicago sitting empty? Who DOES want that? Do you truly believe Chicago is incapable of developing half of itself? Who benefits from development NOT happening in those places? The investors who’ve invested in OTHER neighborhoods.
Some of you folks really shouldn’t have internet access.
Who benefits from a lack of development in Chicago? Is Chicago the way it is despite no one wanting it the way it is? Someone DOES want Chicago to be the way it is. Who?
There’s development happening after 50 years of decline, and you’re yelling about WHY DOES NO ONE WANT DEVELOPMENT??
A caricature.
I’m not yelling nor did I say no one wants development. I wrote “someone” doesn’t want develop because of their economic and/or political interests in other neighborhoods. What happens to Wicker Park real estate values if thousands of new units of rental housing appear in East Garfield Park? What happens when a real estate values rise in a neighborhood and it demands more police, sanitation, and park services? That means less for other neighborhoods. It creates competition for resources.
You’re making up a hypothetical and ignoring the social implications behind why some folks may be wary.
10/10
He’s not wrong. Go try to buy a lot and talk to the alderman and report back. There are very entrenched interests in keeping these neighborhoods what and how they are from narcotics to machine voting and a lot in between. You wont find it so cheeky when you come upon the dark forces behind the curtain.
You can buy a lot for $10k in Englewood right now. You can buy some for under $50k in East Garfield Park.
The neighborhood isn’t holding these back. The physical City of Chicago is the one landbanking. Not even the alderman has that authority to release alone.
So no, yours and Matt’s comment is BS.
Landbanking is a perfect example. It prevents private developers gaining control of a neighborhood. CHA ownership of land has the sane purpose. If private developers could control a neighborhood, They’d invest much more pricing out slumlords and small investors.
Look up Detroit. They have a long history on all that land being in private ownership and landaking util the value is right.
Just because you could doesn’t mean they would. Need a crash course on Chicago’s dark history of preventing homeownership to those not of a particular desire?
You keep talking about something you have no idea how complex the issue is.