A renovation/alteration permit with a reported cost of $445 million was issued by the city on April 9 to rebuild the State/Lake elevated platform. Trains have been bypassing the platform since the first week of January, when it was shut down for razing. Demolition work was authorized by a permit the city issued on December 10 of last year, and now, there are very few signs that an L platform ever existed here.
Brickwork is in the spotlight for a new residential project at 1300 West Newport Avenue in the Southport Corridor of the city’s Lake View Community Area. Front, back, and east façades are all covered in masonry now, while unfinished corners on the west facing indicate that portion still needs to be bricked in. And while scaffolding and tarps shroud some of the structure, it appears most of the building’s windows have been installed.
Exterior finishes may begin shortly on a condominium development in the Wrightwood Neighbors section of Lincoln Park. At 2644 North Lakewood Avenue, Bak Home Development has a three-story plus basement, four-unit building on the rise on a mid-block corner lot made possible by the perpendicular alley on the parcel’s north boundary.
The city has authorized construction to begin for the residential conversion of the Oxxford Clothes building at 1220 West Van Buren Street in the West Loop. In the works for several years, Base 3 and The Missner Group can now get started on Oxxford Lofts, which is expected to deliver 112 rental units at the edge of the Eisenhower Expressway. A renovation permit was issued on April 10, less than two months after its application date. It includes a reported cost of $15.5 million.
The first permit has been issued to begin construction for a residential development at North Milwaukee Avenue and West Prindiville Street in the Logan Square neighborhood. The permit is assigned to the address of 2705 West Prindiville Street, though the development has been known prior as 2240 North Milwaukee. The permit’s application date is January 29 of this year, and it came through on April 7 with a reported cost of $350,000 for the caisson work.
