Demolition has rendered mostly unrecognizable the shops and apartments that used to occupy 917 through 925 West Belmont Avenue in Lake View. Permission to tear down the building came in on July 18, with the rear lot having been fenced off well before the demo permit came through. As of July 29, progress had reached the facades along the street front.
Permission has been granted by the city to construct a residential and office mixed-use building at 3422 South Morgan Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood. Showing an application date of December 5, 2024, the permit came through on July 29 with a reported cost of $1.5 million.
Three tower cranes added to Chicago’s workforce over a three-week span from late June to mid-July have boosted our count into double digits as we enter the month of August.
A pending permit in the Chicago Data Portal dated July 22nd could be a sign of the residential tower at 410 South Wabash coming back to life. The South Loop project underwent site prep and had caissons sunk into the ground back in 2021 but has been dormant since then.
After decades of sitting idle amid hopes for adaptive reuse, the Damen Silos are being torn down at Damen Avenue and 29th Street in McKinley Park. Long a favorite for urban explorers and rave parties, the silos had become a popular landmark along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and the Stevenson Expressway.
