CHICAGO | General Developments

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Exactly this

Thanks for the updates!

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[pip]

Jstange059 - in your transit pics what does RPM stand for?

[dreamy-developer]

Red Purple Line Modernization

https://www.transitchicago.com/RPM/

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Jstange059 - in your transit pics what does RPM stand for?

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[Urbannizer]

Goose Island site for sale as Hines’ timber office project stalls

A historic lumberyard on Chicago’s Goose Island is up for grabs, casting doubt on a proposed mass timber building that had been in the works for years.

The 2.1-acre property at 1017 West Division Street, formerly home to the Ciral family’s Big Bay Lumber business, is for sale, CoStar reported. CBRE’s Tom Svoboda and Phillip Golding are marketing the property, though an asking price has not been disclosed.

The Ciral family had collaborated with Hines, a Houston-based developer, for the past seven years to transform the site into a six-story, mass timber office building.

The project was to be part of Hines’ T3 series, a line of sustainable buildings constructed using timber, transit-friendly designs and cutting-edge technology. Similar T3 buildings have already been erected in Minneapolis, Toronto, Denver and Austin.

[pullmanman]

Via Roland Solinski and BuildingUpChicago on Twitter

(12) 6-flats with 72 units total, 65 parking spaces, and 4 small retail spaces facing ashland.

it looks awesome, very urban. just what this area needs after decades of suburban style crap (costco, jewel, helipad etc)

Former Urban Prairie Waldorf School and Moses Montefiore Academy at 1310 South Ashland got a demo permit yesterday. Half a dozen new construction permits for the site have been issued over the past week or so on 13th and on Hastings

There was no news about this ahead of time (at least that I was aware of) because the planned development, PD30, allows residential. So the city just needed to do an administrative site plan approval in April, not any rezoning. Here's the link to it.

Looks like a substantial improvement to comparable projects in the area.

[left of center]

Wow, yeah a very nice dense project in an area that's otherwise little more than a sea of parking. Nice design, and 72 total units is nothing to sneeze at either. The city needs to make it as easy as possible for more housing to come online. Increases density, vibrancy, population, and reduces housing costs. Multiple birds with one stone.

[west-town-brad]

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that looks to be a former public school site as recently as 2018. I wonder what the city was able to get for that property.

[pullmanman]

Originally Posted by west-town-brad

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that looks to be a former public school site as recently as 2018. I wonder what the city was able to get for that property.

$2.1 million dollars when it was sold as a school in 2018

Source: The Chicago Reporter

The Urban Prairie Waldorf School will open on the Near West Side in the former Moses Montefiore Specialty School, which was the last district-run elementary school meant for students with severe emotional and behavioral disabilities and was controversially emptied of students in 2015. The school was purchased for $2.1 million.

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by left of center

Wow, yeah a very nice dense project in an area that's otherwise little more than a sea of parking. Nice design, and 72 total units is nothing to sneeze at either. The city needs to make it as easy as possible for more housing to come online. Increases density, vibrancy, population, and reduces housing costs. Multiple birds with one stone.

Zoning is an issue sometimes, but Chicago's bigger problems are high interest rates, high construction costs and inconsistent demand. It's tough to make things pencil.

In this specific area, there was a really sleek 5-story elevator building that was approved a few years ago, but there's been no motion on it. Meanwhile this new plan on the Moses Montefiore site is already U/C before they've even torn the school down, they're building like they've got a fire under their ass. One project pencils, the other one doesn't. Not much the city can do in that situation.

I should also mention that this is really poor planning on the city's part. They approved a helipad, which is one of the few genuinely noxious uses, and now they are permitting housing around it. Really there should be a buffer of light industry/commercial, which should have been planned from the second the helipad was announced.