A permit was issued on the final day of March for the construction of a four-story office and retail building at 2314 South Wentworth Avenue in Chinatown. The new structure replaces a similar three-story mixed-use building that the city ordered demolished in March 2023. Alliance Demolition was cited in that permit as the demolition contractor.
Site context of 2314 South Wentworth Avenue, via Google Maps
The city ordered the emergency demolition of 2314 South Wentworth (the red brick building) in 2023. Image via Google Street View
Along with the one additional floor, the new building will include a basement level, which the previous structure did not appear to have. The permit addresses only the core and shell of the structure; buildouts for tenants will be permitted separately once spaces are leased. 21st Century US-Sino Service Inc of Pilsen is the developer and will perform general contracting duties.
The permit names Homan Wong of Dearborn Architects as the architect of record, though 21st Century also has an in-house designer. The reported cost in the new construction permit is $1.6 million. Recent Google images show the lot vacant, graded, and used only for parking, so construction may get started immediately.
No parking for cars or bikes is mentioned in the permit, but stops for CTA Route 24 and 21 buses are located within a three-block walk, and the Cermak-Chinatown Red Line platform is about three blocks north. The Cermak-McCormick Place Green Line platform is about half a mile east, with the #21 bus available as a connection.
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Love this infill. Would love to see more pedestrian connections at 23rd or 24th street
23rd… that’s got more challenges. 24th, absolutely a candidate for something.
I can’t even imagine how nice it was to navigate these regions with no highway in between. Everything…
You’re just not imagining how much progress cars brought the city. Squint a little harder. 😆
Ah yes, all those cruddy overpasses and underpasses that deteriorate at faster rates because of our harsh winters and heavy dumps of rain…
Imagine the funds we’d have for other things that didn’t involve patching the car sewers and their supportive infrastructure.
I can easily turn a one-off comment into a small essay.