Demolition of three buildings on the northwest corner of North Sheridan and West Irving Park Roads in Uptown is nearing completion, as demo contractor Precision Excavation works their way from the rear alley toward the east end of the site. The masonry building addressed as 1010-1016 West Irving is gone, while part of the first-floor south façade in front of it from the former El Palmar restaurant remains in place, highlighted by the multi-colored light bulbs still jutting out of the marquee.
Tuesday morning, 10/20/26. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
A handful of the thousands of bricks salvaged so far. Photo by Daniel Schell
Steel and palletized brick. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Late afternoon, 10/20/26. Photo by Daniel Schell
Lights and windows at El Palmar. Photo by Daniel Schell
Around the corner, the first floor of the old Holiday Club bar is still standing, but a glance through the front windows shows very little demo work remaining to be completed. next to that, 4010 North Sheridan still looks like a three-story building from the front, but razing is slowly approaching, with demo progress moving east from the rear of the building. According to personnel on site, nearly 300 pallets of bricks have already been hauled off for re-use. All three buildings were permitted for demolition during the final week of August.
Pre-demolition work to remove terra cotta. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
4006 North Sheridan by Built Form
4006 North Sheridan by Built Form
4006 North Sheridan by Built Form
4006 North Sheridan by Built Form
With the start of new construction nearing, we have a look at renderings that show updates to the design of 4006 North Sheridan, and they help explain where all of the old buildings’ terra cotta accents have gone. Shout-out to Twitter user Jeremy for tipping us off about the new images. Developer Catapult real Estate Solutions and design architect Built Form have changed the look of the seven-story, 91-unit apartment building significantly. A major part of that redesign features a two-story portion of the east façade that will re-use terra cotta from the former building. Much of those elements had been painstakingly removed from the façades when we did a walk-around in September before actual demolition work began, and there is still some to be removed that sits flush with the ground on 4010’s northeast corner.
Rendering of 4006 north Sheridan by Built Form
Rendering of 4006 north Sheridan by Built Form
Rendering of 4006 north Sheridan by Built Form
Rendering of 4006 north Sheridan by Built Form
Rendering of 4006 north Sheridan by Built Form
The new 4006 North Sheridan will feature 91 apartments consisting of 12 studio units, 46 one-bedroom units, 28 two-bed units, and five three-bedroom units. All dwelling units will be located on the six upper floors, with the ground level containing a 38-space parking garage, about 2,000 square feet of retail space, the resident lobby, and bicycle storage. Summit Design + Build is the general contractor. Amenities depicted in renderings include a pair of outdoor decks/terraces, a fitness center, meeting rooms, and multiple lounge spaces. There is no official word yet on when new construction will begin, but permits for caissons and the full structure have been issued.
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Feels a bit ridiculous just keeping one tiny part of the facade, wish they could have done a proper facadectomy, but I guess doing a tiny bit is better than nothing
The dimensions are different on the two buildings, so I am guessing that a proper facadectomy would have caused a larger redesign of unit layouts, etc. So the frankenstein monster approach allows them to treat that segment of the building almost as a separate aesthetic volume, without changing the building floor plans significantly.
Nice addition of needed modern housing units next to transit. Keeping a portion of the old building is fine I guess, a bit weird, but if it pleases some noisy anti-development constituency so be it.
You may find this difficult to understand but one can be both pro-development and pro-historical preservation.
Fond memories of Holiday Club
Still don’t like this project very much, still think it should have been built on the vacant lot across the street so all these units would have been in addition to existing ones instead of some of them replacing the existing units. And, there’s still an overgrown vacant lot across the street… I also doubt the retailers who lost their space will be able to afford the retail space in the new building.
It looks like there are parts of the new building that use siding instead of brick. Unless there is concrete block underneath, it seems like those units would be cold in the winter. And if there isn’t concrete beneath the siding, that’s just cheap. 15 years ago, this building would have been brick.
Concrete blocks are not an insulating material – they’re structural. Buildings are insulated by other means.
Seeing these perfectly serviceable apartments get torn down while a big empty lot sits across the street is just so annoying.