A local developer building a pair of three-flats on South Vincennes Avenue in Grand Boulevard now has permission to add six more units to the site. A permit issued on May 14 allows McBrearty Construction Company to erect a four-story building with a basement at 4437 South Vincennes. The permit came through just 13 days after its application start date of May 1, and it includes a reported cost of just over $2.1 million.
Site context of 4437-4443 South Vincennes Avenue in Grand Boulevard, via Google Maps
The permit names Design 360 as the architect of record, just as they were for the three-unit buildings at 4443 South Vincennes, permitted for construction in April of last year, and 4441 South Vincennes, permitted in September. The six-flat porches and balconies at the front of the first three floors, and a fourth-floor rear roof deck. A detached six-car garage with a rooftop deck of its own will be built at the alley in back.
From the alley, before three-flat construction began. Image via Google Street View
Redfin listing photo for 4443 South Vincennes, with 4441 under construction next door
Units at 4443 South Vincennes are currently listed for sale. Taking into consideration the one-to-one parking ratio and the $2 million+ reported cost, it is presumed the six new units will also be for-sale condominiums. The site, located on the southeast corner of South Vincennes and East 44th Place, was vacant before the first two buildings began construction. The presence of guard rails in older Google images indicate it was used as a surface parking lot, perhaps for Ebenezer Baptist Church half a block away at 4501 South Vincennes.
Local transit options, via Google Maps
Residents of 4437 South Vincennes Avenue will live within a two-block walk of Route 3 buses to the west at South King Drive, Route 43 buses to the north at East 43rd Street, and Route 47 buses to the south at East 47th Street. The 43rd Green Line elevated platform is about four blocks northwest at 43rd Street between Prairie and Calumets Avenues.
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In 5 year’s Bronzeville won’t have many vacant lots left. Keep it up!
IMO, the fact that market rate housing is being built in a neighborhood – that dealt with the worst of red-lining, realtors stoking latent racial fear, and the effects of subsidized freeways out to cornfields so the same realtors could make a killing building cheap subdivisions – is really good news for the city of Chicago.