A permit to raze a single-story masonry building at 2014 West Belle Plaine Avenue in North Center signals the beginning of a planned five-story, 15-unit residential development for the site. On Thursday November 12, the City of Chicago approved 2014 Belle Plaine Holdings LLC’s application to tear down the structure, which according to CountyOffice.org was erected in 1916. Carlos Group will be the demo contractor at a reported cost of $20,000.
Site context of 2014 West Belle Plaine Avenue, via Google Maps
A permit has been pending in the Chicago Data Portal since August 10 to erect a masonry building on the site. Plans drawn up by Michael Cox & Associates are to include retail space, bicycle parking, and a seven-car garage on the ground floor. The three upper floors are to have rear metal decks, and a second-floor roof deck will likely be built over a portion of the garage; no roof deck is mentioned atop the fifth floor. A patio at grade and iron and wood privacy fencing round out the permit specifications. No general contractor is named.
From the two Y-intersecting alleys to the west of the building, via Google Street View
The subject parcel sits off the Northcenter Town Square streetscape plaza that lies between North Damen and North Lincoln Avenues that the city completed in 2020. There is no vehicular access from Belle Plaine Avenue. The parking garage will be accessed through the rear alleys from the north off West Warner Avenue. According to a Coldwell Banker listing, the property was purchased by the developer in May for $1.9 million.
Local transit options, via Google Maps
Upon completion of the new development, which the pending permit specifies as a “mixed-use apartment building,” tenants will reside about three blocks away from the Irving park Brown Line platform. North-south Route 50 Damen buses stop just a few yards away at Belle Plaine and Damen Avenues, and East-West #80 buses stop one block south at West Irving Park Road. There is a Divvy bike rack at Belle Plaine and Lincoln.
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