Construction will top out soon for the residential redevelopment of the Arandas Tires & Rims shop at 1501 North Ashland Avenue in the Pulaski Park neighborhood of West Town. Block work has risen to the fifth and final floor on all four sides of the building, and textured brick covers much of the west and south façades facing Ashland Avenue and West Le Moyne Street.
Major changes are underway for an entire city block at the heart of Fulton Market. Bound by West Fulton Street to the south, North Sangamon Street to the west, and North Peoria Street to the east, three different projects are underway at various stages of planning, with the last remaining piece now going up for sale by its current owner.
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.
The Chicago Plan Commission has approved plans for a new multi-building development at 3265 North California Avenue in Avondale. Sitting just north of the intersection with West Belmont Avenue, the proposal has been in the works for over a year now, with the current downsized iteration having been brought forward in February.
The tower crane that will build Loyola University’s Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences building has been erected and is doing heavy lifting. A visit on May 13 showed only the base planted on the site, but a Purple Line Express ride on Thursday of last week revealed a complete crane. One enormous street crane was still on site when we passed by, but we can’t say for sure which days it worked on assembly the full rig.
