A two-unit residence has been permitted for construction at 3035 North Spaulding Avenue in Avondale as a pending permit to tear down the existing home awaits. On Friday, October 2, the city authorized a two-story plus basement, two-unit frame building with a two-car detached frame garage. The permit entered the Chicago Data Portal on August 31; it came through after a 32-day wait with a reported cost of $500,000.
Site context of 3035 North Spaulding Avenue, via Google Maps
A developer using the name The Christiana Collection LLC is the recipient of the permit, with Pro-Plan Architects named as the architect of record and Wawel P.A. Inc of Park Ridge designated as the general contractor. Details include front wood stairs, a rear open wood porch, and six-foot wood and four-foot iron fences around the perimeter of the property. The same trio collaborated on homes one block away in the 3000 block of North Christiana Avenue, a project that began with the demolition of Our Lady of Fatima Church.
For the Spaulding homes, an existing single-family residence will require demolition before new construction can begin. Real estate records show The Christiana Collection closing on the property in June for $480,000. They submitted a demo application on August 26; that permit is still pending in the data portal. Upon its approval, Conrad Roofing of Illinois will be the demolition contractor.
From the alley, via Google Street View. A frame two-car garage will replace this one.
Local transit options, via Google Maps
Residents of the two new units will live within a two-block walk of the Belmont Blue Line subway station to the northeast. East-west Route 77 buses and north-south Route 82 buses are also a very short walk away.
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Kind of wish it was a double duplex two flat or a 3 flat, since this is just a half story taller than what it is replacing. Still way better than a single family home.
That whole area is RS-3 (stupidly downzoned ages agao).
So I’m guessing the 2nd unit is either going in as an ADU, or a “predominance of the block” exemption.
Just be happy we’re getting anything above SFH here.