An Uptown property we looked at earlier this month when it was permitted for demolition has now also received the go-ahead to begin new construction. On April 15, a permit was issued to start work at 4650 North Magnolia Avenue, calling for a three-story, four-unit building. Design work was performed by Stoneberg + Gross Architects and N.L.I.E. Construction will be the general contractor.
Concrete masonry units for the stair and elevator cores have risen on the construction site for Lawrence Gateway, the 41-unit residential property from MAS Ventures and architecture firm Wight & Company. Both cores, one for the stairway on the east edge of the building and one for the combination stairway/elevator in the center of the development, are topped out. Now general contractor LG Group is using cinder blocks to form the first level of the five-story structure.
The City of Chicago issued a permit on the 3rd of April to allow construction of a four-story plus basement, three-unit residential building at 1480 West Huron Street in West Town. the permit cites a reported cost of $1,513,200 and shows an application date of March 13, a wait in the data portal of just 21 days.
Renderings have been released for interiors in the upcoming Oxxford Lofts residential conversion at 1220 West Van Buren Street in the West Loop. Images from SITU Design show typical living spaces in residential units, as well as amenity spaces on the first and eighth floors. The entire eighth level will be a new addition atop the existing seven-story Oxxford Clothes building.
A permit to erect three dwelling units will plug a small gap on West Fulton Boulevard in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. ANM Mechanical Services LLC, as both the developer and the general contractor, will erect a three-flat residential building at 3215 West Fulton. They got a permit on April 13 after waiting 68 days. It comes through with a reported cost of $400,000. The vacant parcel, improved only with a rear concrete slab, has been used recently for parking.
