A pair of two-flat residential buildings were permitted this month to fill a vacant gap in the 11300 block of South Aberdeen Street in the Morgan Park neighborhood. Permits for 1353 and 11355 South Aberdeen were applied for on February 6 of this year. They were issued seven days apart, on July 13 (11353, a 157-day wait) and July 20 (11355, a 164-day wait) with reported costs of $500,000 apiece.
A frame home at 1139 West Altgeld Street in Lincoln Park built in the 1880s will soon be replaced by six new units. A developer using the entity of 1137-39 Altgeld LLC got a demolition permit for the property on July 14, the same day as the application start date, with Builder Luxury named as the demo contractor at a reported cost of $20,000.
Nearly five years after a caisson permit was issued to begin construction on a seven-story Edgewater condo building, a new developer has received permission to try again on the same parcel. On July 17, Variable Properties LLC got a permit for a five-story, 24-unit residential project at 6027 North Kenmore Avenue, where a 2017 demolition laid waste to one of the last surviving homes by John Lewis Cochran. The permit had been pending in the Chicago Data Portal since March 13, and it came through with a reported cost of $2.7 million.
Progress is starting to rise from below grade at Loyola University’s Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences building at 1144 West Loyola Avenue on the Rogers Park campus. Concrete walls and columns with protruding rebar, a solid sign that there will be more floors to come, are reaching up from beneath the surface, surrounded by a web of cross braces shoring up the perimeter walls.
A pair of three-flats have been permitted for construction on the northwest corner of South Wabash Avenue and East 56th Street in the Washington Park neighborhood. 5542 and 5544 South Wabash both came through on July 14 and have the exact same specifications. However, 5542 waited 16 days longer in the data portal and has a reported cost $100,00 higher than its next-door neighbor at 5544.
