The first of two tower cranes for McDonald’s Park, the new soccer stadium under construction by and for the Chicago Fire Football Club, has been erected at The 78 in the South Loop. Permits for the West Crane and the East Crane both hit the Chicago Data Portal on April 14; the West Crane came through on April 21, with the other still pending.
A Chicago builder that received a permit to erect a three-flat residence on South Prairie Avenue in Washington Park back in January will construct three more on adjacent lots. Reliable Home Remodeling & Construction Company got their latest permit on May 29, allowing for a three-story slab-on-grade building at 5306 South Prairie Avenue. The permit came through with a reported cost of $500,000, 71 days after its application start date.
A portion of another surface parking lot has disappeared, never to be parked on again, as site prep gets underway for The Clifton at 4725 North Clifton Avenue in Uptown. A site visit during the final week of May showed most of the old asphalt scraped away, with only a few marked parking spaces still visible at the south end of the site. The Clifton’s construction will include no parking, so once those last few spaces are banished, this will be a car-free space.
Much of the masonry work and glass installation has been completed for a residential building at 3318 West Montrose Avenue in the Albany Park neighborhood. At ground level, plywood still covers window openings for future retail spaces facing south along Montrose and a three-bedroom dwelling unit that will face west. Inside, an abundance of visible wood studs indicates interior progress is still in its early stages.
Foundation work has begun for the residential development at 6143 North Kenmore Avenue in Edgewater. Concrete forms have been placed at the front of the construction site, while excavating sand and tearing out the remnants of the previous asphalt lot used by the now-demolished Kindred Hospital continue. As we’ve come to learn, that sand is ubiquitous on sites this close to the lake front, and with a 40-car garage planned for the basement level, digging it out and hauling it off will take some time.
