A four-story plus basement, three-unit residential building has been permitted to replace a single-family residence authorized for demolition in July. On August 17, the city issued a permit for 911 West Diversey Parkway in Lincoln Park that entered the data portal on July 31. It comes with a reported cost of $889,982.
Site context of 911 West Diversey Parkway, via Google Maps
Advent Properties LLC – 3066 is named as the property owner, with Hanna Architects the designated architect of record and Archway Builders, Inc of Northbrook listed as the general contractor. That team collaborated recently at 3015 North Southport Avenue in Lake View. The Lincoln Park building will feature a rooftop deck with a stair enclosure and rear decks and porches on all four levels. A detached three-car garage on the alley will also have a roof deck. It is presumed the new units will be offered as for-sale condos, with a duplex-down occupying the basement level and first floor, a simplex condo on the second floor, and a duplex-up on the top two floors.
From the alley, via Google Street View. The garage was permitted for demolition along with the residence
A single-family residence built around 1900 and its detached garage were permitted for demolition on July 17, with Builder Luxury named as the demo contractor at a reported cost of $25,000. Real estate records show Advent Properties purchased the home in May of this year for $1.3 million. We have not visited the site to confirm if demolition work has begun.
Local transit options, via Google Maps
911 West Diversey is less than a block from the Diversey Brown/Purple Line elevated platform. eastbound and westbound Route 76 buses are just steps away at the corner of Diversey and North Mildred Avenue. Two blocks east are stops for #8 Halsted buses.
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These developers just do themselves no favors with the projects they decide to take on. Certainly there are other opportunity sites around Chicago?
It’s less than a block from an L station that serves two lines. This is an ideal site for increased density.
Building is already gone. Went down pretty quickly
Got wasted and had dinner at Butcher and the Bear down the street from here during the Bears playoff win against Greenbay.
If you lived there, you’d be home by now.
Only if you are a rich snob
I walk past this house every day on my commute. Demo started last week and it was mostly leveled by end of day Thursday 8/21. I grew up nearby and it was one of the few original homes still left on Diversey. There is little respect for original structures in this pocket of Lincoln Park.
“another home falls by the way side” less cities more moving people – The Fixx
A four-story + basement with 3 big units replacing a single-family home is something to applaud. That house is cute, but cities need density. Local businesses will benefit from more people living by them, and the city will get more taxes from the condos. This is a good thing.
Cities need density, sure. The problem is developers all want to keep shoehorning construction into neighborhoods that are already super dense.
Additionally, having an L stop isn’t the end-all, be-all. This is a standard sized lot, which will now somehow be challenged to fit a bunch of cars while also having a half-dozen garbage and recycling carts. People may commute to work on the train, but that doesn’t mean they won’t also have cars.
And let’s talk about the increased risk of basement flooding every time one of these completely-paved-over lots gets built up like this, because that is the only way you are going to fit 3 cars there (and there is no guarantee these units will only have inhabitants with a single vehicle).
Killing the golden goose that is Lincoln Park continues. You want density? Ban the Airbnbs and DePaul’s relentless land grabs.
“Won’t somebody think of the cars!!”
Classic Nimby scare tactics. Ignore.
It’s not the developers.. they just follow demand. It’s that people all want to live in the same neighborhoods (at values that can pay for the cost of these new developments). If the demand flowed elsewhere and to other neighborhoods, developers would follow.
This house lasted 126 years what’s the over and under of this Hannah designed apartment building lasting till 2152?
I’m all for density. But they need to build something at least as beautiful and characterful as the simple little architectural gem they demolished..