Grand Boulevard

A local developer building a pair of three-flats on South Vincennes Avenue in Grand Boulevard now has permission to add six more units to the site. A permit issued on May 14 allows McBrearty Construction Company to erect a four-story building with a basement at 4437 South Vincennes. The permit came through just 13 days after its application start date of May 1, and it includes a reported cost of just over $2.1 million.

A Vernon Hills developer has received their second permit in the past four weeks to construct three-flat residences on South St. Lawrence Avenue in Grand Boulevard. Square Construction landed the first permit, for 4844 South St. Lawrence, on March 18, following that up with an identical permit on April 13 to build at 4842 South St. Lawrence. Both permits show application start dates of January 29, and they each came through with reported costs of $500,000 apiece.

Just two months after three adjacent lots on South Prairie Avenue were approved for three-flat construction, another vacant parcel on the block will get three new residential units. On February 10, the City of Chicago granted approval for a three-story, three-unit building at 4623 South Prairie Avenue in Grand Boulevard.

A developer from Bridgeview, IL has added another permit to their collection of three-flats for the city’s Grand Boulevard and Bronzeville neighborhoods. APMW Development Corporation got permission to erect a three-story, three-unit residential building at 4840 South Calumet Avenue on January 9, four months after filing a construction application. At $440,000, the reported cost is in line with other three-flats they’re delivering on the South Side.