Foundation work is done and the first level has started to rise for the 40-unit residential development at 6143 North Kenmore Avenue in the city’s Edgewater neighborhood. At the rear of the property along the alley, concrete block and steel are on display. But along the front façade facing Kenmore, courses of brick have been laid, covering the blockwork on the lowest of the five future residential floors.
Construction work on 16 new condominiums from developer ZSD Corp has begun to go vertical at 1282 West Washington Boulevard in the West Loop. Concrete block has risen to form the east wall of the first floor, with one level of the center core rising at the center of the site. The west wall is just getting started, with stacks of palletized block and brick awaiting placement.
A nine-unit building has been permitted by the City of Chicago for 2053 West Irving Park Road in North Center. Using the entity of Irving Flats LLC, which may or may not offer a hint as to the name of the new project, Mangan Builders is the site’s developer and general contractor. Approved on September 9 with a reported cost of $1.275 million, the permit had been in the Chicago Data Portal for 428 days since its application start date of July 8. 2025.
A new construction permit issued by the city allows the development of a two-story plus basement, two-unit frame residence at 2128 West Eastwood Avenue in the Ravenswood neighborhood. The permit, which comes with a reported cost of $475,000, was issued on September 10, a mere 10 days after its application start date of August 31. The entity of GL-888 LLC is named as the property owner.
A local developer using an LLC received four permits on September 10 to build two-unit residences in the 300 block of East 56th Street in the Washington Park neighborhood. Each of the four permits needed just 17 days of processing time from their application start dates of August 24, and the reported cost is $250,000 apiece.
