Foundation work is done, and construction is now underway on the first floor of the five-story, 32-unit residential development at 936 West Leland Avenue in Uptown. Concrete block has shaped the stair and elevator cores through the center of the site, and the front wall in underway at ground level. Along the alley, work on the north wall is just getting started.
A portion of another surface parking lot has disappeared, never to be parked on again, as site prep gets underway for The Clifton at 4725 North Clifton Avenue in Uptown. A site visit during the final week of May showed most of the old asphalt scraped away, with only a few marked parking spaces still visible at the south end of the site. The Clifton’s construction will include no parking, so once those last few spaces are banished, this will be a car-free space.
The foundation is in the ground for the fast-moving residential development at 4650 North Magnolia Avenue in Uptown. Little more than a month ago, there was an 1890-built frame residence on this lot. But that was dispatched within a week’s time after a demolition permit came through on April 6, and the site was excavated immediately for new construction.
As a pair of demolition permits await approval, the first of three new residential buildings for the 1300 block of West Foster Avenue in Uptown has been cleared for construction. A three-story plus basement, six-unit residence was permitted by the city on April 27 for 1351 West Foster. It will be bookended by two more multi-unit buildings once demolitions are carried out.
A foundation and superstructure permit issued by the city on April 24 allows construction to begin on The Clifton, a five-story, 40-unit residential development at 4725 North Clifton Avenue in Uptown. Developer CEDARst Companies and general contractor Method Construction Services are the recipients of the permit, which entered the Chicago Data Portal on June 23 of last year.
