A pair of buildings once home to the Royal George Theatre on North Halsted Street in Lincoln Park are now being demolished for redevelopment. Demolition permits for 1633 and 1649 North Halsted Street were issued October 31, and now that process is underway. The property contained the two-story theatre building, a parking structure, a restaurant space, and a four-story office/commercial building.
Permits have now been secured for all four single-family residences to be built on the site of the vacant church and school on North Richmond Street in Logan Square. Both of those structures are now being demolished ahead of the lot’s redevelopment.
Three demolition permits issued for West Lake Street in the Fulton Market District signal the beginnings of a new residential tower from developer CedarSt Companies. 1332 and 1338 West Lake, which comprised the Hindman Auction complex, were cleared for razing over a four-day period earlier in November.
Campion Hall on the Loyola University campus in Rogers Park is mostly rubble now, with only remnants of the east and south walls still remaining. Heneghan Wrecking is on site clearing the block-long property for Loyola’s future six-story nursing, forensic sciences, chemistry, and biochemistry facility for the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences.
A demolition permit was issued on October 29 to tear down a three-story residential building at 2724 North Lehmann Court on the northern edge of Lincoln Park. That will clear the site for a new development from Contemporary Concepts.
