A new construction permit for 3222 North Clifton Avenue in Lake View means the end is near for a 1900-built greystone on the property. P O’Connell Construction LLC got a permit on May 13 to erect a three-story plus basement, three-unit building here with a reported cost of $925,000. The permit had been pending in the city’s data portal since January 7.
3222 North Clifton Avenue. Photo by Daniel Schell
Currently on the lot stands a three-story greystone dating back to the late 1890s, with some resources showing completion in 1900. The usual searches turned up no recent sales data for the property, which last sold in 2015, though a recent real estate listing featured the third-floor unit available for rent. A demolition permit for the homes and a detached frame garage has been pending since March 26. Once it’s issued, Carlos Group will be in charge of knocking the structures down.
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
To be torn down and replaced with a new three-car masonry garage. Photo by Daniel Schell
The new building is a design by Michael Cox & Associates. Details include front parches on the second and third floors, a rear first-floor porch, and a private roof deck atop the third level. In the rear off the alley, a new masonry three-car garage with its own rooftop deck will replace the frame garage to be demolished. Ridgeview LLC, listed in the permit as the property owner under the same address as P O’Donnell Construction, is the same entity named as the buyer of the building back in 2015. However, it is not clear if they will build new units to rent again, or if these will be for-sale condos.
Site context of 3222 North Clifton Avenue, via Google Maps
Local transit options, via Google Maps
Residents of 3222 North Clifton will live half a block form CTA service via Route 77 buses along West Belmont Avenue. North-south service can be found four blocks west at North Ashland Avenue and four blocks east at North Halsted Street, and #22 buses are four blocks to the east at North Clark Street. The Belmont Red/Brown/Purple Line elevated platform is about three blocks east.
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Grrrrrr
Very sad. This is a nice looking building that should be saved and renovated, not destroyed.
What a shame we are losing another historic graystone building that will probably be replaced by a cheap-looking, big brick, architecturally unadorned banal structure.
Replacing a historic greystone three unit that could be renovated with a new three unit building? How does that make any financial sense?
This isn’t adding any housing, just increasing the expense of housing on this lot.