Facilities for a new Lubavitch Girls High School are under construction at Devon Avenue and North Whipple Street in West Ridge. Students had been attending classes in schoolrooms attached to the Congregation Bnei Ruven at 6350 North Whipple; the new two-story masonry building will update and modernize the educational experience.
Three single-family homes we looked at back in May on N Greenview Avenue in Uptown have topped out, and now brickwork has begun for two of them. Once the location of the First Spanish Christian Church at North Greenview and West Sunnyside, the lot created by the church’s demolition received three new construction permits in January of this year.
Construction is in full swing for a three-story, three-unit residential building at 1087 North Marshfield Avenue in East Village. Issued by the City of Chicago on May 3, 2024, the construction permit also calls for a detached three-car garage at the rear of the property. Designed by Hanna Architects, the building will include balconies facing Marshfield, a rear first-floor terrace, and a basement. The rear stairways will have decks, as will the garage rooftop.
The Hotel Riu Plaza Chicago is putting finishing touches on the exterior, as the interior progresses ahead of its scheduled opening this summer. The 28-story hotel will feature nearly 390 rooms when it welcomes its first guests, who can wine and dine each other at the 27th-floor bar “The Rooftop” opening in the fall.
Demolition work has begun on the small blue house at 840 West Lill Avenue in Lincoln Park. Demo contractor Carlos Group is carrying out instructions on a permit issued July 9 to tear down the two-story frame residence and detached garage.
