The Northbrook developer that delivered The Trieuth on North Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Square has received a permit to new a residential building at 1853 West Grand Avenue in West Town. Northshore Development Group LLC got permission on May 12 to erect a four-story plus basement, four-unit building with an attached two-car garage. The permit’s application start date was on January 5, and it was issued with a reported cost of $975,000.
Site context of 1853 West Grand Avenue, via Google Maps
The permit names Oana Herghelegiu as the architect of record. Few specs are included, only that the west side of the building will have a three-story stairway connecting outdoor decks. With another residence mere inches away, it would only seem plausible that those decks are toward the back of the structure, nearest the alley. Additionally, a zoning amendment was approved in December of last year to reduce the minimum rear setback. It is not yet known if the four units will be rental apartments or for-sale condos.
This garage will be razed and replaced with an attached two-car garage, Image via Google Street View
A two-story building with first-floor commercial space and second-floor residences addressed as 1855 West Grand was permitted for demolition on May 6 to clear the property for redevelopment. DemoX is the contractor for the razing at a reported cost of $14,000. Real estate records indicate Northshore Development purchased the building, built in 1893, for $411,000 in June 2025.
Local transit options, via Google Maps
Residents of 1853 West Grand will find CTA bus service right outside their door via Route 65 at the intersection of Grand and Wolcott Avenues. Route 50 buses run north-south one block west at North Damen Avenue, and can be used to connect with the Damen Green Line platform four blocks south at West Lake Street. Three blocks west are stops for Routes 9 and X9 at North Ashland Avenue, and those two buses can provide connections to the Ashland Green Line.
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This…this is the type of housing Chicago needs. The high rises and five-over-ones are fine. We need those too, especially in close proximity to transit. But we can thicken up our neighborhoods with more housing easier and faster with four story four-flats (and coach house/ADUs). My only “criticism” is it would have been nice if they allowed the ground floor to be flexed to commercial by right.
Under appreciated outcome of the grand Ave safe streets reconstruction is that it makes grand a much more pleasant place to live on.
So much good food on Grand