A demolition permit was issued by the city to demolish a one-story commercial building and greenhouses at 5338 South Mason Avenue in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood near Midway Airport. According to the permit, which was issued on April 4, All Concrete Contractors of Bridgeview is named as the demo contractor, at a reported cost of $10,000.
The first pre-cast concrete panels have been erected for the forthcoming TimeLine Theatre at 5035 North Broadway in Uptown. General Contractor Bulley Andrews began the installation work in mid-March at the front of the site. As progress proceeds, the newly-built portion will to connect to the five-story remainder of the former W. C. Reebie and Brother storage building.
A demolition permit was issued by the City of Chicago on March 18 to tear down a small retail plaza at 4313 North Lincoln Avenue in the North Center neighborhood, making room for a proposed residential development from Mangan Builders. They have a pending permit in the Chicago Data Portal for a four-story, 12-unit building on the site, addressed as 4309 North Lincoln.
A caisson permit was issued Friday for Bally’s Chicago Casino, marking the official start of new construction at the former Chicago Tribune Freedom Center site in River West. Though considered a big gamble by many, the casino can now get moving, with equipment already occupying the sprawling lot, and rebar cages and iron tubing waiting to be lowered into the ground.
The Chicago Tribune Freedom Center has been scraped from the earth, but activity continues on the River West site of Bally’s Chicago Casino. As we keep an eye out for the first construction permit to be issued by the city, rebar is already being bent and curled into cages to be lowered into caissons to support the building.
