Demolition of the Ravenswood Presbyterian Church at 4300 North Hermitage Avenue in Ravenswood is now underway. A pair of permits were issued on December 3rd, allowing contractor Dexco Corporation to get to work on the church and the caretaker’s home behind it.
When last we checked on 4317 North Paulina Street in Ravenswood in October, a 1905-built greystone on the site had been mostly reduced to rubble. A crew was on hand to sort and salvage pallet loads of bricks from the old building, while stone accoutrement from the façade and other items from the structure awaited removal. Demolition was permitted on October 7 and carried out by Builder Luxury of Willowbrook.
A vacant corner lot on the northeast corner of West Douglas Boulevard and South Spaulding Avenue will soon be improved with a pair of two-story plus basement, two-unit residential buildings. At 3254 West Douglas in North Lawndale, a permit was issued to developer and general contractor M Street Construction of Oak Park on November 25. A second permit remains pending in the Chicago Data Portal to build next door at 3256 West Douglas.
Foundation work below grade is underway for a multi-unit residential building at 2341 West St. Paul Avenue in Wicker Park. V & M Development of Evanston got a permit to get started for the three story plus basement, four-unit project on September 9. They filed their application on July 17, and it came through with a reported cost of just over $1.5 million.
Four permits have been issued to construct three-unit residences on the 1100 block of South Western Avenue in the Tri-Taylor neighborhood on the city’s Near West Side. The four identical permits, assigned to 1106, 1108, 1110, and 1114 South Western, were all applied for on August 8 of this year, and they all came through on December 2 with reported costs of $661,950 each.
