The Robert R. McCormick Leadership and Economic Opportunity Center has topped out on concrete, and now awaits its second phase of construction. This three-story, 85,000-square-foot facility at 6623 S Martin Luther King Jr. Drive is bringing a multi-use community center to the Woodlawn neighborhood.
The first new home on the site created by demolition of the former Cenacle Retreat and Conference Center in Lincoln Park has begun construction. The City of Chicago issued a permit on December 4, 2023 to build a three-story single family residence at 2338 N Cleveland Avenue.
The Centennial Forum, at 1125 W Loyola Avenue on the Loyola University Chicago campus in Rogers Park, is currently being demolished. We first visited the site back in May just as demo preparation got underway, and now the two-story concrete structure is about halfway torn down. That’s all the work of American Demolition, which received a demo permit from the City of Chicago on May 23.
Lakeside Alliance, the construction conglomerate building the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, announced the topping out of the Center’s Museum Tower on their LinkedIn account earlier this month. The Chicago Sun-Times reported then that the Presidential Center was about 56% complete.
Two residential units are being built in a new construction three-story building at 3252 N Racine Avenue in the Lake View neighborhood. Masonry work covers the exterior of the first floor as it reaches the underside of the second level.
