As 1010 South Wells nears its topping out, the first level of glass has wrapped around the fifth floor, the first of the residential levels. Crews from Brandts Build and Goebel Forming are working east to west on the 20th floor now of what will be a 22-story building with nearly 400 rental apartments.
McDonald’s Park isn’t the only job site in town with a shiny new yellow Liebherr tower crane; there is now a 420 EC-H doing the heavy lifting for the parking garage at The 1901 Project, too. The crane’s base was planted in the Neat West Side ground back in July. We can’t say exactly when the rest of it was erected, but it’s been there long enough to set some heavy ironwork over the below-ground loading dock off Damen Avenue.
For the first time since since Fall 2017, there are two tower cranes on a McDonald’s job site, though this time they’re building a very different project. The east crane at McDonald’s Park at The 78 in the South Loop has been erected, allowing construction on the Chicago Fire’s new stadium to progress away from the river towards Clark Street.
A pair of frame two-story structures sold by St Gregory the Great Parish in Andersonville have been razed and the lots permitted for two single-family residences. Three demolition permits were issued for the two buildings at 1621 and 1625 West Bryn Avenue on July 22, including one to remove a shared oversized garage at the alley behind the properties. Maxym Demolition of St Charles was contracted to to do the work at a reported cost of $22,500 for each frame building and $9,500 for the masonry garage. A visit to the site on September 7 showed only a small amount of rubble remaining.
A permit issued by the City of Chicago on September 15 allows for the construction of a five-story, 24-unit residential building on a vacant lot spanning 1815-1821 North California Avenue in Logan Square. Permission was granted for the project after a 119-day wait in the Chicago Data Portal, and it comes through with a reported cost just over $4 million. Stanislaw Chodak and Wes Kahn are the co-developers for the new homes.
