New demolition permits were issued earlier this week to remove a multi-unit masonry residence and a detached garage located at 1936 W Belmont Avenue in the North Center neighborhood. The owner is listed as Sustainabuild LLC. This demolition comes on the heels of permits issued for the neighboring parcel at 1938 W Belmont Avenue, which we’ve previously reported.
DAC Developments is now disassembling the tower crane at 808 N Cleveland Avenue, a 23-story mixed-use tower in Near North Side. The topped-out high rise is taking the place of an overgrown trapezoidal piece of land. Programming will include 7,500 square feet of retail space, 20,000 square feet of leasable offices, and 200 for-rent apartments.
A new lifestyle hub has opened at 839 W 79th Street in Auburn Gresham after many years of work and community outreach. Located just west of the intersection with S Halsted Street, the new project revitalized an abandoned existing commercial building that was once home to a department store. Led by the Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation, it was originally introduced in 2020 with local firm McBride Kelley Baurer (MKB) responsible for the design of the development.
New permits were issued this past week for a new three-story residential building at 1362 W Hubbard Street in West Town. The permit owner is filed under Sean Walsh, and according to plans, the development will consist of three units, a basement, a rooftop deck, and a detached three-vehicle garage. The new structure will replace an existing two-flat.
The penultimate addition to our Dead by Design series of cancelled Chicago projects is a gargantuan 2011 proposal oriented around the nine-story Old Chicago Post Office. The original post office was a smaller mail terminal designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst and White. Having completed in 1921, the Art Deco structure was expanded in 1932 to bring its total square footage to 2.5 million square feet. While shuttering its mail operations in 1996, the building was inducted into the National Registry of Historic Places in 2001, then would be sold by the city to Bill Davies of International Property Developers in 2009 for $24 million.
