The city on Thursday, October 22 issued a permit to construct a three-flat residential building at 919 South Bell Avenue in the Tri-Taylor neighborhood. The new homes will fill the only vacant lot on the 900 block. The permit was issued 134 days after its application start date of June 10, and it includes a reported cost of $499,000.
Half of the Lake Street Bridge is gone, and I can’t get over it. And if you’ve driven anywhere near The Loop lately, you can’t either. Same for a bunch of other bridges around the city. But until Monday, CTA elevated train service over the Lake Street Bridge is unavailable too, as the Chicago Department of Transportation prepares to move a new west span into place.
Demolition of three buildings on the northwest corner of North Sheridan and West Irving Park Roads in Uptown is nearing completion, as demo contractor Precision Excavation works their way from the rear alley toward the east end of the site. The masonry building addressed as 1010-1016 West Irving is gone, while part of the first-floor south façade in front of it from the former El Palmar restaurant remains in place, highlighted by the multi-colored light bulbs still jutting out of the marquee.
The tower crane is being erected this week at 410 North Elizabeth, the new Fulton Market residential tower from developer The Tree Street Group. Twenty-two months after it was permitted the first time (December 12, 2024) and eight months after its second, for-real issuance (February 19, 2026) we saw the full crane in the air on Tuesday. Workers on top of the rig were adding finishing touches, and it looked like it would be ready to do the heavy lifting by Wednesday.
General Contractor Power Construction is progressing from south to north on the third level of Loyola University’s Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences building. When we last visited the Rogers Park campus about six weeks ago, concrete columns and cores had begun extending out of the foundation to form the first floor. Now progress is up to the underside of the fourth floor at the Loyola Avenue (south) end of the site as Power works their way north on that third level.
