A demolition permit has been carried out on a single-story commercial building at 3650 North Ashland Avenue in Lake View. The permit was issued on January 27 of this year to raze the shuttered Capt’n Nemo’s sandwich shop, with Precision Excavation performing teardown duties. A visit to the site on June 15 shows nothing remaining but rubble and salvaged bricks.
Bricks are being salvaged from the former commercial building at Wilson Avenue and Dover Street in Uptown, as the beginning of construction work nears for a new residential development. A permit to get underway was issued back in March, so it is expected the new building will begin post haste once the site is cleaned up completely. Icon Property Management is the developer here, and their construction permit cites a reported construction cost of just over $5 million.
A demolition permit has been issued by the City of Chicago to remove the single-story commercial building at 1412 West Belmont Avenue in Lake View. The Alverna Group LLC is the recipient of the permit, which came through on June 3rd. It names L. Kearney Inc as the demo contractor and cites a reported cost of $15,000.
A demolition permit has been issued for a two-story masonry building at 1118 West Fullerton Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. It was the former home of Branko’s Sandwich Shop, a DePaul campus stalwart for almost 50 years. The restaurant closed in 2024, and the building, erected in 1908 and owned by the Branko family, sold earlier this year for $1.1 million, according to real estate records. The permit, issued June 11th, names Precision Excavation as the demolition contractor, at a reported cost of $29,500.
A single-family residence at 1847 North Mohawk Street in Lincoln Park has been purchased by a developer, and a demolition permit has been issued to knock it down. The three-story home, sold in April for $2.1 million, was built in 1988. The permit to raze the structure and its detached frame garage was issued on June 2nd, with the Carlos Group named as the demolition contractor.
