A new construction permit was issued January 15 by the City of Chicago to build a multi-unit residence at 2341 West Belden Avenue in the Bucktown neighborhood. The new plans, designed by Michael Cox & Associates, call for two units which may indicate this will be a duplex-up and duplex-down condo development.
Initial plans have been revealed for the residential conversion of the existing church at 2625 N Talman Avenue in Logan Square. Located just north of the intersection with W Logan Boulevard, the church was most recently the home of the Bethel International Full Gospel Korean congregation. Efforts for the redevelopment, dubbed Talman Lofts, are being led by Mo2 Properties.
Concrete blocks abound at 3605 North Ravenswood in Lake View, as this future 52-unit residential TOD starts to show above street level. Those cinder blocks are beginning to form a core, from which the rest of the building will soon begin to rise.
The city has issued a pair of new construction permits to develop two three-story, three-unit residential buildings at 6220 and 6222 South Martin Luther King Drive in Washington Park. The permits came through on January 24 and January 27 respectively, and they are identical.
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.
