An official ribbon cutting was held yesterday for the completed first phase of Encuentro Square in Logan Square. Made up of two buildings at 3759 W Cortland Street and 1844 N Ridgeway Avenue, the project sits at the western end of the 606 Trail and at the nexus of Logan Square, Hermosa, and Humboldt Park.
Funding has been secured for the second residential phase of the Ogden Commons development in North Lawndale. Located at 1312 S Talman Avenue, this would join the first residential phase directly behind it as well as the development’s first structure along W Ogden Avenue.
Funding has taken another step forward for the mixed-income development at 547 W Oak Street in the Near North Side. Sitting on the corner with N Larrabee Street, the new structure would replace a vacant lot owned by the Chicago Housing Authority within the former site of Cabrini-Green.
Permits have been issued for the first building within the Legends South development at 4520 S State Street in Grand Boulevard. Located on the southwest corner with W 45th Street, the building will replace a large vacant lot that was once the home of the Robert Taylor Homes. This will be the first of multiple phases to fill in the overall site.
Five finalists have been revealed for the city’s Missing Middle Infill Housing initiative across Lawndale. Split into six clusters/zones of vacant city-owned lots, the initiative looks to subsidize the construction of 99 for-sale homes for the middle class in an area that has long seen rampant disinvestment and 15 percent population loss in the last decade.
