Construction will top out soon for the residential redevelopment of the Arandas Tires & Rims shop at 1501 North Ashland Avenue in the Pulaski Park neighborhood of West Town. Block work has risen to the fifth and final floor on all four sides of the building, and textured brick covers much of the west and south façades facing Ashland Avenue and West Le Moyne Street.
Excavation and foundation work has begun for the residential development at 6150 North Sheridan Road in the Edgewater neighborhood. Steel sheets have been driven into the ground along the east and north perimeters as digging continues. That follows on the heels of site prep we saw a couple weeks ago, when an excavator tore up the asphalt from the existing surface lot.
The tower crane that will build Loyola University’s Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences building has been erected and is doing heavy lifting. A visit on May 13 showed only the base planted on the site, but a Purple Line Express ride on Thursday of last week revealed a complete crane. One enormous street crane was still on site when we passed by, but we can’t say for sure which days it worked on assembly the full rig.
The foundation is in the ground for the fast-moving residential development at 4650 North Magnolia Avenue in Uptown. Little more than a month ago, there was an 1890-built frame residence on this lot. But that was dispatched within a week’s time after a demolition permit came through on April 6, and the site was excavated immediately for new construction.
Construction progress has reached the third floor on a four-story plus basement residential building at 1150 West Diversey Parkway on the south edge of Lake View. JEK Development of Glen Ellyn is erecting two units here, likely condominiums, and will add a two-car garage at the rear of the property once structural work is mostly complete on the residences.
