A four-story with basement, eight-unit residential building is underway in the Lincoln Park neighborhood at 2435 North Clybourn Avenue. The development from PFH Homes of North Center replaces a double lot that has been vacant since a demolition permit was issued in 2014 for the two-story building at 2437 North Clybourn. The new permit was issued October 28 of this year.
Construction crews continue to add tiles of granite cladding to the Museum Tower’s exterior on the Obama Presidential Center campus in Jackson Park. And in September, they installed a glass art piece by Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu on the building’s north façade. Titled “Uprising of the Sun,” the piece consists of 35 individual panels and measures 83 feet by 25 feet.
Structural steel is rising into shape for the AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park. General contractor Turner Construction has the steel up to the underside of the fourth and fifth levels as it begins to wrap around the twin concrete cores.
Inspire Woodlawn Townhomes are under construction in the 6200 block of South Woodlawn Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Developer KMW Communities is building the Inspire Woodlawn complex, which includes single-family homes that are already built and sold, and six simplex and duplex condominiums that have yet to begin construction. Two of the single-family residences are located right across the street from these townhomes.
A three-story residential building being constructed at 5124 South Kenwood Avenue in Hyde Park has a pending permit to add a single-story addition. McInerney Properties received a permit from the City of Chicago on March 1 of this year to erect a nine-unit building here. A December 2022 fire damaged the previous property at this location, necessitating demolition.
