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[ardecila]

Originally Posted by k1052

The Broadway upzone passed the Zoning Committee yesterday. City council passage possibly this week.

Apparently a number of cranky homeowners had to be kicked out of the committee meeting for being disruptive.

Really speaks to the success of the YIMBY movement both in Chicago and nationally. The alders who represent this area know they can count on reliable support from Abundant Housing IL and other YIMBY groups.

Also, it's great to see this happen directly next to CTA's newest rail stations and guideway. This is how the city can start to recoup its significant investment...

[sentinel]

Originally Posted by k1052

The Broadway upzone passed the Zoning Committee yesterday. City council passage possibly this week.

Apparently a number of cranky homeowners had to be kicked out of the committee meeting for being disruptive.

Good! Then deserved to be kicked out.

[Steely Dan]

Perhaps once they are cast into perpetual, eternal shadows by "towering" 7 story buildings along broadway a decade or so from now, the lakewood-balmoral people will finally come to realize that they in fact do not live in Winnetka.





Who am I kidding.

[k1052]

Originally Posted by ardecila

Really speaks to the success of the YIMBY movement both in Chicago and nationally. The alders who represent this area know they can count on reliable support from Abundant Housing IL and other YIMBY groups.

Also, it's great to see this happen directly next to CTA's newest rail stations and guideway. This is how the city can start to recoup its significant investment...

It has been most gratifying to watch the increasing success of the pro-housing orgs as the younger Xers and Millennials obtain political sway through organizing and actually obtaining political office. Hopefully this also can spread to the state legislature too.

[left of center]

Originally Posted by k1052

It has been most gratifying to watch the increasing success of the pro-housing orgs as the younger Xers and Millennials obtain political sway through organizing and actually obtaining political office. Hopefully this also can spread to the state legislature too.

State legislature is the best way of bypassing local alder opposition. Its such a headache and a drain on recourses to have to fight tooth and nail for single lots or blocks, instead of allowing developers to more easily build housing in this city/state. There are several proposals working in the state assembly that I am aware of that would beef up Chicago zoning, as well as several other municipalities in IL. We need to make 4 flats legal by right city-wide!

[Randomguy34]

The Catholic Bishop of Chicago is selling off their rectory building at 2409-11 W Congress Pkwy, which will be replaced with a 5-story, 58 unit building


https://chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov/Matter/?matterId=508EDA72-07AA-F011-BBD2-001DD80B7FF7

[cloudbod]

629 West Lake Street on Tuesday. Looks like this wacky steel thing is topped out!

[Randomguy34]

Originally Posted by Randomguy34

The Catholic Bishop of Chicago is selling off their rectory building at 2409-11 W Congress Pkwy, which will be replaced with a 5-story, 58 unit building

^ The main church at 2401 W Congress Pkwy will also be converted into 52-unit rental. So that's 110 units in total for this site

https://chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov/Matter/?matterId=E441D6C4-D0AA-F011-BBD2-001DD80FF047

[ardecila]

The rectory is a beautiful Italian Renaissance-style building. The Archdiocese seems to be hell-bent on tearing all this stuff down.

There's plenty of room on the site to build new housing without a teardown; 3/4 of the site is a parking lot.

[left of center]

Agreed. I'm happy that at least the 3 story corner building is getting preserved with this plan. The city really needs to require developers to preserve historic buildings/facades wherever feasible. Giving them density bonuses as an incentive for adaptive re-use or incorporating parts of older buildings into new developments would be a good start.

[Randomguy34]

10 story, 140 ft, 188 unit building proposed for 3611 N Halsted. We'll probably more developments like this along the upzoned stretches of Broadway



Proposal: https://www.46thward.com/zoning-development
article: https://chicagoyimby.com/2025/10/mixed-u...th-halsted-street-in-lake-view-east.html

[arCHItecture_]

Haven't seen this on any of the threads yet but there's a new development at California and Melrose with two five-story residential buildings with townhomes in between

https://chicago.urbanize.city/post/multi-building-development-proposed-3265-n-california

[BVictor1]

There's a survey by the city at the link below. Everyone who posts here should be checking it out and filling out that survey.

This is a 6 1/2 mile opportunity.

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/moving-archer-forward/home.html

Moving Archer Forward

Moving Archer Forward is the Chicago Department of Planning and Development's (DPD) study of Archer Avenue between Halsted Street and Cicero Avenue. The initiative launched in spring 2025 to evaluate land use, zoning and development opportunities, with a focus on transit access and Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (eTOD) opportunities near CTA Orange Line stations.

[BVictor1]

Grand & Aberdeen

10.26.25

[cloudbod]

^ gorgeous masonry. Really hoping this one inspires copycats.

Walked by 871 N Franklin (North Union) and it's got a nice new lighting scheme:



Huge glow-up for this area already. Here's what it looked like in 2021:

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by cloudbod

^ gorgeous masonry. Really hoping this one inspires copycats.

I don't know if we need copycats exactly, but it's a great facade design that works as a bookend for that great string of historic brick buildings along Grand.

It's unfortunate that IDOT tore down half the street in the 60s for the massive/oversized Ohio Feeder interchange, just to replace it with a bunch of unused grassy areas.

[mh777]

For sale, according to Crain's.

Crain’s reported at the time, and has spent $2 million on preparing the site for construction, according to CBRE. It’s not clear why it’s looking to walk away from the site now, and Lennar and Quarterra didn’t respond to requests for comment on the listing.

The zoning underlying the site is DX-16, the city’s densest designation, and allows up to 399 market-rate residential units to be built on the site, with no affordable housing requirement, according to CBRE. Developments built as of right, meaning projects that don’t require a zoning change from the City Council, don’t need to comply with a city ordinance that requires most new apartment developments to have at least 20% of the units set aside as affordable housing.


The site's zoning also permits hotel, office, medical and retail uses, according to CBRE.

[dreamy-developer]

Originally Posted by mh777

For sale, according to Crain's.

Strange, they released fresh new renderings for this project back in June. Curious what fell through.

Updated Renderings Revealed For 424 South Wabash Avenue In The Loop

[cloudbod]

Originally Posted by dreamy-developer

Strange, they released fresh new renderings for this project back in June. Curious what fell through.

Updated Renderings Revealed For 424 South Wabash Avenue In The Loop

That's a different site (424 S Wabash) just south of this one (410 S Wabash).

The one that's up for sale has been a silent dirt patch for the last two years, so this is probably good news.

[dreamy-developer]

Originally Posted by cloudbod

That's a different site (424 S Wabash) just south of this one (410 S Wabash).

The one that's up for sale has been a silent dirt patch for the last two years, so this is probably good news.

Dang, you're right - There's like, 3 different projects in the pipeline on Wabash - my bad lol