Work is underway on the complete reconstruction of the Metra Electric Line’s 95th Street station in Roseland. Located at the northeast corner of Chicago State University, at the intersection with South Cottage Grove Avenue, the new station house will restore an existing brick building and demolish another to allow for expansion.
The City of Chicago has issued a renovation permit for reconstruction of the CTA’s Austin Green Line elevated platform. John Burns Construction Company, the firm that completed the new Peterson Ridge Metra station last summer, is named as the general contractor. Design work was performed by Epstein.
A permit was issued by the City of Chicago on March 21 to allow Clark Construction to begin interior alterations to the CTA Station inside the Thompson Center in The Loop. Renovations are permitted for all three levels of the station, including the concourse, ground floor, and upper level. JAHN drew up the plans, as they did for the Thompson Center and its current overhaul for Google. The permit shows a reported construction cost estimate of $35 million.
A construction permit has been issued by the City of Chicago to create a surface parking lot at 1314 South Pulaski Road in North Lawndale. The permit, which came through on March 13 following an application filed on August 6, 2024, calls for 12 parking spaces next to Work Of His Hands Ministries.
Progress is ongoing for a new entrance at the Racine Blue Line platform on the city’s Near West Side. The station, which lies between the inbound and outbound lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway and is two blocks west of the Morgan Street substation we looked at last week, is part of the CTA’s $3 billion plan to reconstruct the Forest Park Branch of the Blue Line system. The Racine renovation alone, which extends from Racine Avenue to the east to Loomis Street to the west, is estimated to cost approximately $23 million.
