Construction has begun on the residential development at 2234 West Grand Avenue in West Town. A demolition permit was issued for the Rainbow Art, Inc building previously on the site in late February. It was torn down very quickly, allowing developer and general contractor Panoptic Group to get started on foundation work. Construction approval was received on March 7, at a reported build cost of $6.5 million.
A Lincoln Square three-flat has topped out, barely two months after a visit in January showed site prep underway for the trio of new homes. At 2307 West Foster Avenue, DV Development, performing both developer and general contractor duties, has the building up to its final height. They received a permit to begin construction in December 2024, but demolition wasn’t permitted until January 9 of this year. With the help of demo contractor Conrad Roofing of Illinois, Inc., they got a lot done in a short period of time.
Two new construction permits were issued on March 26 by the City of Chicago allowing construction to begin on a pair of two-flats in the Woodlawn neighborhood. Permissions were granted to developer and general contractor McNamara Builders to erect two-story with basements, two-unit buildings at 6517 and 6519 South Langley Avenue. The permits show an application date of June 17, 2024, and a reported construction cost of $400,000 for each building.
Construction progress is nearing the underside of the second story on a residential development at 1701 West Grand Avenue in West Town. Addressed in a permit issued by the City of Chicago in November as 466 North Paulina Street, the four-story, nine-unit building is being constructed by Panoptic Group, with 1701 W Grand LLC named as the developer.
Work continues below street level on the new residential building at 1950 West Lawrence Avenue in Ravenswood. Vista Group Realty is developing up a five-story, 12-unit building here, formerly the site of a terra-cotta faced furniture store, and long before that, a Jewel grocery. That has all been demolished now, and Vista, acting as their own general contractor, has made significant progress on the new structure’s foundation.
