CHICAGO | General Developments

[r18tdi]

Originally Posted by BruceP

I stopped going when the owner started vomiting out his right-wing opinions leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

The free market has spoken.

[west-town-brad]

Originally Posted by BruceP

Bella Luna wasn't the owner of the building.

there is also a dry cleaner operating in the building....

[r18tdi]

Originally Posted by west-town-brad

there is also a dry cleaner operating in the building....

Not any more!

[ithakas]

Does anyone know anything about this project? I don't think I've seen any renderings or news on it.

1723 S Michigan will soon be home to a 13 Story apartment building with 149 Units and ground floor retail.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl_XSRArnWt/

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by ithakas

Does anyone know anything about this project? I don't think I've seen any renderings or news on it.



Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl_XSRArnWt/

Saw this the other day but forgot to post it on here. He's right. There's a pending permit for it that has been active of late, but not issued (still pending). This will count as a high rise.

"2019 CBC: DIRECT DEVELOPER SERVICES: FOUNDATION & PARTIAL SUPERSTRUCTURE (1ST-2ND FLOOR AND TO THE TOP OF CORE AT LEVEL 4 AND CAST-IN-PLACE CONCRETE STAIRS AND WALLS AT STAIR AND ELEVATOR CORES UP TO THE UNDERSIDE OF LEVEL 6) FOR A NEW 13-STORY, 149 D.U."


There's nothing for zoning changes either, so I'm pretty sure it's an as-of-right project. Based on my research and going about 4 LLCs deep, this is land/building owned by CMK, who also developed the 33 story building across the street from this and multiple other South Loop high rises in the area.

[Rizzo]

Originally Posted by marothisu

There's nothing for zoning changes either, so I'm pretty sure it's an as-of-right project. Based on my research and going about 4 LLCs deep, this is land/building owned by CMK, who also developed the 33 story building across the street from this and multiple other South Loop high rises in the area.

LOL, had to get the PIN, then the deed, then at about the 2nd LLC on cyberdrive to get to CMK, all on a phone of course. Looking forward to this and I'm also assuming it's as of right as well

[Randomguy34]

Bobby Rush's bill to designate much of the South Side as a National Heritage Area is set to be signed by the president. Rush said the designation will help "preserve over 200 historical assets" across the South Side and receive $1 million annually towards preservation efforts.

There are so many building's and sites I would love to see preserved, number one of course being The Forum.


https://chicagoyimby.com/2022/01/bill-in...-bronzeville-national-heritage-area.html

[Gedung Tinngi]

This would be fantastic! I live in the designated boundaries. SO many historic structures to be preserved and celebrated.

Originally Posted by Randomguy34

Bobby Rush's bill to designate much of the South Side as a National Heritage Area is set to be signed by the president. Rush said the designation will help "preserve over 200 historical assets" across the South Side and receive $1 million annually towards preservation efforts.

There are so many building's and sites I would love to see preserved, number one of course being The Forum.


https://chicagoyimby.com/2022/01/bill-in...-bronzeville-national-heritage-area.html

[marothisu]

Another good day for gobbling up vacant lots for new buildings this week. It's been a nice early Christmas and happy Hanukkah LOL. 2 more buildings permitted yesterday for Phase 3B of Roosevelt Square near UIC. 1257 W Roosevelt was permitted on 12/7 already to build a new 6 story, 70 unit building also on a vacant lot.

1) 1002 S Racine - This is on Taylor St and the site has been vacant for at least 15 years. Will become a new 6 story, 67 unit + retail with 33 parking space building.

Rendering via https://chicagoyimby.com/2022/02/city-co...-roosevelt-square-in-near-west-side.html


2) 1357 W Roosevelt - On the corner of Loomis. Will become a new 6 story, 70 unit + 40 parking space building. This site has also been vacant for at least 15 years.

Rendering via https://chicagoyimby.com/2022/02/city-co...-roosevelt-square-in-near-west-side.html

[west-town-brad]

kinda funny after interstate highway construction and urban renewal.... trust us, this time we know what we are doing!

Originally Posted by Randomguy34

Bobby Rush's bill to designate much of the South Side as a National Heritage Area is set to be signed by the president. Rush said the designation will help "preserve over 200 historical assets" across the South Side and receive $1 million annually towards preservation efforts.

There are so many building's and sites I would love to see preserved, number one of course being The Forum.


https://chicagoyimby.com/2022/01/bill-in...-bronzeville-national-heritage-area.html

[Halsted & Villagio]

Originally Posted by west-town-brad

kinda funny after interstate highway construction and urban renewal.... trust us, this time we know what we are doing!

Yes, 1 million will definitely break the bank… and will lead to cost overruns on par with highway construction and urban renewal. Lol. That is, if this was year 1950.

I hardly think we need to clutch pearls over 1 million dollars.

It’s a worthy cause… let’s give it a shot. Have a little Christmas spirit.

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by marothisu

2 more buildings permitted yesterday for Phase 3B of Roosevelt Square near UIC. 1257 W Roosevelt was permitted on 12/7 already to build a new 6 story, 70 unit building also on a vacant lot.

F'n finally. I assume if they paid their landscape deposit and got the permit released, they have the funding in place to start construction on all three buildings.

It takes so long to get funding for these mixed-income deals, you have a capital stack of 8, 10, maybe 15 funding sources, each one operating on a different approval and award timeline with different requirements. If even one drops out, you're screwed unless you find more money somewhere. Utterly insane how this system is ever supposed to provide housing for more than just a few lucky families.

1) 1002 S Racine - This is on Taylor St and the site has been vacant for at least 15 years. Will become a new 6 story, 67 unit + retail with 33 parking space building.

It looks like this site used to have the Eisenberg Boys and Girls Club, a single-story 1960s community center to serve residents of the ABLA projects.

2) 1357 W Roosevelt - On the corner of Loomis. Will become a new 6 story, 70 unit + 40 parking space building. This site has also been vacant for at least 15 years.

This site was never part of ABLA, but it was a row of dilapidated mixed-use buildings along the south side of Roosevelt. Many were vacant/abandoned around 2000 when they started tearing down ABLA, and they were seized by CHA as part of the new Roosevelt Square. Sad that they could not be renovated...

[marothisu]

Building permits issued for an Invest S/W project in Auburn Gresham (Chicago)

- 753 W 79th St - 5 story, 30 unit bldg w/1st floor restaurant/office space. Vacant lot for 10 years

- 838 W 79th St - 3 story, 28 unit bldg w/1st floor office space. Long time vacant lot

[Randomguy34]

Great to see! With the rehab of 839 W. 79th St, the U/C Metra stop, and new restaurants opening up, there's a lot happening on this stretch of 79th St. The city also has plans in the works for developing the vacant lots around Auburn Park Lagoon.

[ardecila]

The Metra project is not U/C yet, despite (two?) groundbreaking ceremonies.

[marothisu]

Happy new year! For 2022, I made a map of all the residential up and down conversions I could find via permitting. In total, the net of unit count in these throughout the entire city is +320, though maybe a few less as I couldn't get an original unit count on a few down conversions. There were 121 multi unit buildings converted to SFH as well. I didn't do a count by community area/neighborhood yet.

Realistically this could be closer to +400 but I counted the Belden-Stratford apartment conversion in this (-69 units technically..). There's also 3 convents being converted to multi unit housing that I counted.


https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid...&ll=41.83828678790482%2C-87.6713478&z=10

Biggest up conversions
1. 4714 W Irving Park Rd - Old Sears conversion from 0 units to 202

2. 2219 N Hamilton Ave - Convert convent to 23 units

3. 4640 N Western Ave - Convert commercial/storage building (0 units) to 18 units

4. 1356 W Chestnut St - Convert church to 18 units

5. 2407 N Kedzie Blvd - From 7 units to 22. Some sort of addition, I think

6. 1218 W Lexington St - Convert convent to 14 units.

7. 4637 N Ashland Ave - Convert from convent to 14 units.

8. 2344 E 70th Pl - Add 12 new units to existing 16 story high rise a little east.

9. 4504 N Clark St - Add a 4 story addition to existing 1 story building for 12 new units

10. 1810 N Wells St - Convert from 8 to 18 units

[west-town-brad]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/1/2/23...park-bucktown-lincoln-yards-sterling-bay

nothing new here but pulling together all the planned projects heading northwest from the loop to create the story of where future growth is heading

[Bombardier]

Originally Posted by BruceP

Bella Luna wasn't the owner of the building. The "Rock Center" building owners, so the story goes, kept turning down bigger and bigger offers until Rock Center finally told them to go get screwed. Likely, the OCS developers did the same. Those 2 properties likely aren't worth much - given the prime location - since you can't do much with them given their small floorplates. I used to live near Rock Center and the best they could ever do was rent the 1st 2 floors to some retail store or restaurant with the top 2 floors vacant. The Bella Luna site is worth even less. I used to go to Bella Luna 5 or 6 times a year because the food was OK and the prices not bad, but they were never even half full. Being that they were never anything to write home about and the location was crap, COVID probably finally did them in. I stopped going when the owner started vomiting out his right-wing opinions leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

Agreed. The owners of the building dropped the ball big time and will not get anything near what JDL offered them originally so they could consolidate the block for OCS. Fortunately JDL was able to design around them and now they are left with a less valuable property. Also regarding Bella Luna, I heard the owner loudly complaining in blatant racist terms about someone playing hip hop on the Touchtunes. That was the last time I went there but rarely ever saw more than a few people in there. I always thought it was there for money laundering as I can't see how they could have turned a profit. Maybe I've just watched Ozark a bit too much.

[oshkeoto]

Very interesting!

How did you identify these permits?

And does this just include rehab, not units lost/added via teardowns?

Originally Posted by marothisu

Happy new year! For 2022, I made a map of all the residential up and down conversions I could find via permitting. In total, the net of unit count in these throughout the entire city is +320, though maybe a few less as I couldn't get an original unit count on a few down conversions. There were 121 multi unit buildings converted to SFH as well. I didn't do a count by community area/neighborhood yet.

Realistically this could be closer to +400 but I counted the Belden-Stratford apartment conversion in this (-69 units technically..). There's also 3 convents being converted to multi unit housing that I counted.


https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid...&ll=41.83828678790482%2C-87.6713478&z=10

Biggest up conversions
1. 4714 W Irving Park Rd - Old Sears conversion from 0 units to 202

2. 2219 N Hamilton Ave - Convert convent to 23 units

3. 4640 N Western Ave - Convert commercial/storage building (0 units) to 18 units

4. 1356 W Chestnut St - Convert church to 18 units

5. 2407 N Kedzie Blvd - From 7 units to 22. Some sort of addition, I think

6. 1218 W Lexington St - Convert convent to 14 units.

7. 4637 N Ashland Ave - Convert from convent to 14 units.

8. 2344 E 70th Pl - Add 12 new units to existing 16 story high rise a little east.

9. 4504 N Clark St - Add a 4 story addition to existing 1 story building for 12 new units

10. 1810 N Wells St - Convert from 8 to 18 units

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by oshkeoto

Very interesting!

How did you identify these permits?

And does this just include rehab, not units lost/added via teardowns?

These are only renovation/alteration permits of existing buildings (which some do include some additions to them to add units sometimes). Tear downs are a completely different story. I'm sure there could be things happening without permitting but I just looked at those permits. There's many indications via the language used in the permit to identify them.