Only rubble and one story’s worth of west and north wall remain on the former site of Aya Pastry at 1332 West Grand Avenue in West Town. The neighborhood bakery closed in August 2025, and its building was slated for demolition in June of this year. Our site visit at the end of June showed the building still standing but surrounded by demo fencing, with a crew and excavator on the lot starting prep work.
Now there are no signs left of the structure save for a few courses of masonry work along what used to be the west and north walls, and lots of rubble. The heavy equipment is gone—in fact, there is no longer any equipment on the scene at all now—so perhaps those final walls are being taken down by hand. Regardless, there is little semblance of the bakery left.
Aya Pastry, 1332 West Grand Avenue. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
As it was when we reported back in June, the new construction permit, assigned to the address of 1334 West Grand, is still pending. But unlike in June, we now know that BM International Builders, Inc will be the general contractor. The permit cites their address the same as that of the property owner, Thirteen 28-32 W Grand LLC. They’ll erect a four-story, nine-unit residential building designed by Hanna Architects.
Ground-floor details include retail space and a nine-car attached garage that will have a deck atop its exposed rooftop. There will also be storage for 30 bicycles. All nine residences will be on the upper three floors with balconies at each level. A stair enclosure and another deck will be added over the fourth floor. There will be no basement level.
Site context of 1332 West Grand Avenue, via Google Maps
Local transit options, via Google Maps
It is not yet clear if the new units will be offered for sale or for rent, though the one-to-one parking-to-unit ratio suggests condos. Residents will have access to several transit options, including stops for CTA bus Routes 9, X9, 65, 66 all within three-block walks. The #65 Grand bus can be used to connect to the Grand Blue Line subway station just over half a mile to the east.
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