A local developer using an LLC received four permits on September 10 to build two-unit residences in the 300 block of East 56th Street in the Washington Park neighborhood. Each of the four permits needed just 17 days of processing time from their application start dates of August 24, and the reported cost is $250,000 apiece.
Site context of 346-356 East 56th Street, via Google Maps
The permits, for 346, 350, 352, and 356 East 56th Street, name Monica Chadha of Civic Projects Architecture as the architect of record, with Crown Construction Company of Oak Lawn providing general contracting services. Few details are included about the homes, only that they’ll be two-story plus basement, two-unit buildings with detached two-car garages. The permits do not mention if there will be one unit on each above-ground floor, or if the basement levels will be included with the first level in duplex-down floor plans. It is also not clear if the units will be offered as for-sale condos or as rental apartments, or if they’ll be erected all at once.
From the alley, via Google Street View
The subject parcels are all vacant, and have been since at least 2009, as far back as Google Street View allows us to see. There are five or six empty lots directly across from those to be improved; the Chicago Data Portal shows no pending permits for that side of the street.
Local transit options, via Google Maps
Those moving into the eight new units will reside less than a block from the west edge of Washington Park and its multitude of activities and attractions. The Garfield Green Line elevated platform is less than two blocks to the northwest, and stops for Route 3 and Route 55 buses are available within two-block walks. The 55 bus can be used to connect to the Garfield Red Line platform about a mile west at the Dan Ryan Expressway.
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Sweet! What a great location right by the park. And not too far from the Garfield station as well 🙂
For obscure childhood-related reasons I happen to be able to say that those specific lots, and the ones across the street at the corner with Calumet, and the ones just east and northeast along MLK, have all been vacant since looong before 2009.
Hopefully this development is a spark…in recent years the Park District has been doing some good work improving that large and once-glorious park.
I’m in British Columbia right now and the expected turnaround time for interior renovation permits is 3 months! At 17 days, we don’t realize how good we have it!