Permits issued on September 3 allow the demolition of the former North Side United Pentecostal Church in Edgewater and the construction of its residential replacement. The demolition permit for 1527 West Edgewater Avenue, which will be carried out first, entered the data portal on July 7, 58 days before its issuance with a reported cost of $60,000. Tir Conaill Concrete is named as the demo contractor.
Nearly five years after a caisson permit was issued to begin construction on a seven-story Edgewater condo building, a new developer has received permission to try again on the same parcel. On July 17, Variable Properties LLC got a permit for a five-story, 24-unit residential project at 6027 North Kenmore Avenue, where a 2017 demolition laid waste to one of the last surviving homes by John Lewis Cochran. The permit had been pending in the Chicago Data Portal since March 13, and it came through with a reported cost of $2.7 million.
Revised plans have once again been revealed for the proposed redevelopment of the Emmanuel Congregation campus at 5959 North Sheridan Road in Edgewater. Sitting right on the coast of Lake Michigan and surrounded by high-rises, the project has seen multiple rounds of iterations over the past few months, with the last update coming this past May.
Foundation work has begun for the residential development at 6143 North Kenmore Avenue in Edgewater. Concrete forms have been placed at the front of the construction site, while excavating sand and tearing out the remnants of the previous asphalt lot used by the now-demolished Kindred Hospital continue. As we’ve come to learn, that sand is ubiquitous on sites this close to the lake front, and with a 40-car garage planned for the basement level, digging it out and hauling it off will take some time.
Excavation and foundation work has begun for the residential development at 6150 North Sheridan Road in the Edgewater neighborhood. Steel sheets have been driven into the ground along the east and north perimeters as digging continues. That follows on the heels of site prep we saw a couple weeks ago, when an excavator tore up the asphalt from the existing surface lot.
