The Chicago Plan Commission has approved plans for a new school building at 335 West Belden Avenue in Lincoln Park. Sitting just east of the intersection with North Clark Street, the project would demolish an existing four-story residential building to make way for a $39 million expansion of Francis W. Parker School directly behind the site.
The Chicago Plan Commission has approved the redevelopment of the historic Up Top Building within historic Altgeld Gardens. Located at 13100 South Ellis Avenue, the curved one-story building long served as the commercial hub of the surrounding community prior to falling into disrepair after years of disinvestment in the area.
Plans and renderings have been revealed for the redevelopment of the historic Up Top Building at 13100 South Ellis Avenue within Altgeld Gardens. Located on the northeastern corner of the large housing complex and next to the neighborhood’s public library branch, the structure has sat vacant and deteriorating for years, waiting for a new life.
A foundation permit was issued Friday to allow Loyola University to begin construction on the new Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences. Addressed in the permit as 1144 West Loyola Avenue in Rogers Park, this is the former home of Campion Hall, which was demolished last year for the new facility. The construction site occupies the entire east side of the block spanning 6550 to 6600 North Sheridan Road between Albion and Loyola Avenues, one block north of the Loyola Red Line platform.
Steel is being erected for the four-story Tiny Giants Early Learning Center mixed-use project on the southwest corner of California and Montrose Avenues in the Horner Park neighborhood. Concrete cores are also popping up toward the north end of the construction site as work goes three-dimensional.
