There is no longer a tower crane at 2305 South State Street on the Near South Side, as the newest phase of the Southbridge development has topped out and dropped its rig. But there is some fresh glass on the building, interspersed with gray panels in varying shades, with the exterior skin now wrapping around the second floor. That patterning will continue up the structure’s 12 stories.
Monday October 5 saw the release of a full-construction permit for a new residential building at 315 South Jefferson Street in the West Loop. The nine-story plus basement, 52-unit development will replace a surface parking lot just a few yards north of the recently topped out 566 West Van Buren. The permit hit the Chicago Data Portal on March 20, coming through after a 199-day wait with a reported cost of $19 million. Summit Design + Build is the general contractor.
The old drive-thru bank canopy has been torn down, and site prep is underway ahead of construction on 605 Davis, a new 29-story residential tower in Evanston from Vermillion Development. According to local publication Evanston Now, demolition work got started on the morning of September 25, and the canopy was gone within hours. Machines from Precision Excavating & Demolition are now in excavator mode as they prepare for foundation work.
Chicago lost another of its tower cranes over the second week of September when the rig was removed from the 566 West Van Buren construction site. As that was coming down, more glass was going up around the lower levels of the 199-unit apartment building coming online soon. Most of two rows of glazing, on the second and third floors, have now been wrapped, while the ground floor remains open to the elements.
A vacant spanning 1844-1846 North Damen Avenue in the Bucktown neighborhood has been permitted by the city for a new three-unit residential building. Promised Land Development applied for the permit, addressed as 1846 North Damen, on July 14 of this year and it came through on October 2 with a reported cost of $1.3 million.
