A vacant parcel on West Flournoy Street in the East Garfield Park Community Area will soon host three residential units, thanks to a new construction permit issued by the city last month. After spending 91 days in the Chicago Data Portal, 3041 West Flournoy is now permitted for a three-story, three-unit building with three surface parking spaces. A two-story wood porch will be built on the back of the homes, and wood and wrought iron fences will surround the lot.
Site context of 3401 West Flournoy Street, via Google Maps
From the alley, via Google Street View
ANM Mechanical Services LLC is the project’s developer and general contractor, with Angel Sida named as the architect of record. The permit was issued on July 14 and cites a reported cost of $400,000. It is not clear of the new units will be offered as rentals or for-sale condos.
Local transit options, via Google Maps
Residents of 3401 West Flournoy will live within two-block walks of north-south CTA bus service via Route 52 along South Kedzie Avenue to the west, and east-west #7 buses to the north at West Harrison Street. The entrance to the Kedzie-Homan Blue Line platform is three blocks northwest at the Eisenhower Expressway.
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I want to be high on East Garfield Park but they need some commercial going there as well as residential. Projects like this are awesome, a good net benefit for the area. Would also love to see some new restaurants, businesses, etc to go there. I almost wonder if the Obama Center would have been better placed there but wouldn’t make sense from Obama’s perspective at all
Commercial likely will only follow after there is a critical mass of households. Plus there are still vacant commercial properties that still need to be filled before we build additional. Mixed use though would be great! There is a particular lack of grocery variety in the area.
Just a heads up, the article lists both the addresses 3041 and 3401 W Flournoy, probably want to get that fixed
Western Avenue has some retail. The Pete’s Fresh Market is rather upmarket. More residents will drive more retail.
There is a huge difference north of 290 and south, they shouldn’t be considered the same neighborhood. They were pre-construction of 290 but no longer have any real relation to each other. South of 290 is basically an open air drug market along the exit ramps and blocks south while north of 290 is cleaning up nicely.
Highway segregation for the win! Aren’t car sewers neat?
That’s how ‘gentrification’ works in American cities. Investors focus on one neighborhood where they are convinced that property values will not drop anymore. Investors call it ‘eliminating the downside risk.’ That’s just about happened in East Garfield Park but that means that East Garfield Park gets all the investment of a certain type leaving none for neighboring areas. East Garfield Park’s success actually increases the ‘downside risk’ of areas to it’s south and west by pushing the poorer residents and crime from East Garfield Park into those areas. The only way to change this locally would be for North Lawndale, for example, to incorporate as a separate municipality as Cicero and Oak Park did long ago. Even then, without comprehensive restructuring of the American political, financial, legal, and tax systems, an independent municipality can only do so much.