Construction can begin for a three-flat at 4841 South Prairie Avenue in Bronzeville, now that developer Jack Properties LLC has a permit to get started. Issued On April 15, about six weeks after an application was filed on March 5, the permit shows a reported construction cost of $420,000. The new homes will replace a long-vacant grass lot with the Green Line elevated tracks passing overhead behind it.
Eight residential units have been permitted for an empty lot at 4536 South Prairie Avenue in Bronzeville neighborhood of Grand Boulevard. The four-story masonry building will be complimented by a detached masonry four-car garage at the rear of the property, accessed from the alley off 46th Street. The permit was issued on April 16, just 37 days after its application was filed on March 10. It indicates a reported construction cost of $1.67 million.
A pair of permits issued in March by the City of Chicago will allow the South Side Community Art Center to begin work on an addition to the Bronzeville building they’ve called home since 1940. A demolition permit issued April 1 calls for the removal of the coach house at the rear of the 1892-built structure, and a renovation permit issued March 13 authorizes foundation and site work for a three-story addition.
Further renderings and details have been revealed for the potential Bears stadium on the former Michael Reese Hospital site in Bronzeville. Located just south of McCormick Place, the plans to pivot the former Bronzeville Lakefront megadevelopment towards a stadium are being led purely by the Lakefront’s developers Farpoint Development and Golub.
The City of Chicago has issued two permits to erect three-story, three-unit residential buildings at 4147 and 4153 South Calumet Avenue in Bronzeville. The permits are identical, and issued on the same day, February 27, though one application was filed on October 29 of last year and the other on October 31. The estimated cost for each building is $450,000.
