A vacant lot across the street from Dvorak Park and just north of Cermak Road in Pilsen will soon be improved with a three-story plus basement, two-unit residential building. A permit was issued for 2130 South May Street on January 21, five months after its application date of September 30, 2025. It came through from its 113-day wait with a reported cost of $520,000.
Interior build-outs are nearly complete for the residential conversion of the former Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church at 509 West Elm Street in Cabrini Green. Located on the corner of North Cleveland Avenue, the project has been in the works for several years and is just one of multiple developments set to redevelop the entire block.
When we stopped by 629 West Lake in the West Loop late last month, we surmised that the presence of an excavator a block south at 135 North Desplaines Street might indicate the beginning of another construction project. Nailed it. A follow-up visit on February 3 showed a crew on site, not only prepping the lot, but doing excavation work and driving piles along the parcel’s south lot line.
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) have launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) for their site at 12 East 95th Street. Located on the corner of South State Street along the Dan Ryan Expressway, the large lot sits across the street from the CTA Red Line’s 95th Street intermodal station and Abbott Park.
Two permits issued within a week’s time will allow a pair of projects on the same Lincoln Park block to complete large-scale renovations of existing buildings. Each includes the transformation of hospitality spaces to residential use, with one a shuttered hotel, the other Single Room Occupancy building.
