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[marothisu]

Originally Posted by r18tdi

Same project?

https://chicago.urbanize.city/post/c...r-wellness-hub

Yup. I didn't know they had renderings but I like that a bit.


A few more new zoning apps to go along with the 2 I've reported on already:

1) 1887 N Milwaukee Ave. Construct a new 4 story, 15 unit building with a day care on the ground floor level. Currently a 2 story vacant building that used to be an auto body shop. This is a block or 2 from the Western Blue Line stop and it only calls for 2 parking spots.



https://chicago.legistar.com/Legisla...vanced&Search=

2) New 6 story (70 foot tall), 8 unit building at 453 W Briar Pl in Lakeview East, just south of Belmont and just east of Broadway. Replaces at least 1 2 story 2 unit building (maybe 2 of them)

https://chicago.legistar.com/Legisla...vanced&Search=




3) A new 4 story (50 foot tall), 25 unit building with 8 parking spots at 6301 S Western Ave. It's currently a vacant 3 story building

https://chicago.legistar.com/Legisla...vanced&Search=

4) A new 4 story, 7 unit + retail building at 1912 W Division St. This is currently a small surface parking lot next to that Red Square bathhouse which has been a parking lot for at least 15 years.

https://chicago.legistar.com/Legisla...vanced&Search=

5) Lubavitch Mesivta of Chicago wants a build a new 3 story (almost 40 feet tall) Yeshiva/high school at California & Pratt. The site they purchased is currently a 1 story strip mall with a surface parking lot.

https://chicago.legistar.com/Legisla...vanced&Search=

Rendering from https://www.lubavitchmesivta.com/tem...ng-Project.htm

[Jibba]

Originally Posted by marothisu

2) New 6 story (70 foot tall), 8 unit building at 453 W Briar Pl in Lakeview East, just south of Belmont and just east of Broadway.

What on Earth.....

How many times can a front elevation be divided up in an idiotically desperate attempt at obfuscating the size of something.

Lakeview East Neighbors are like, "Fits the character of the neighborhood." LMAO.

[Toasty Joe]

Originally Posted by marothisu

2) New 6 story (70 foot tall), 8 unit building at 453 W Briar Pl in Lakeview East, just south of Belmont and just east of Broadway. Replaces at least 1 2 story 2 unit building (maybe 2 of them)

https://chicago.legistar.com/Legisla...vanced&Search=

odd - those structures appear to be in good shape and the house on the left could easily fetch $1.5M in this neighborhood...

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by Toasty Joe

odd - those structures appear to be in good shape and the house on the left could easily fetch $1.5M in this neighborhood...

At 8 units over 6 stories and a structure this wide, I am guessing the new units will be over $1M each.

[BVictor1]

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/comm...-market-center

December 14, 2022 12:33 PM UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Developer buying CTA's Fulton Market control center, building new one on West Side
DANNY ECKER

The Chicago Transit Authority has tapped Chicago-based Farpoint Development to build it a new control and training center in the Garfield Park neighborhood, part of a larger deal that will allow Farpoint to buy the CTA's current facility in the Fulton Market District and redevelop it with what could be a massive new project.

The CTA's board today unanimously approved an agreement with a Farpoint venture to develop a roughly $158 million, 150,000-square-foot complex on CTA-owned land near the intersection of Lake Street and Pulaski Avenue in Garfield Park, where it will consolidate its control center and a training center operations for CTA employees. Farpoint is expected to begin work on the project in 2024 and complete it in 2026, according to a CTA statement.

As part of the deal, Farpoint will buy the three-story building at 120 N. Racine Ave. that houses the existing CTA control center on its top floor.

The sale of the existing facility tees up what could be another major development project in the trendy Fulton Market neighborhood.

could ultimately demolish the existing building at the southwest corner of Racine Avenue and Randolph Street and develop a project larger than 1 million square feet, based on the size of the site and existing zoning rules.

They could build 1,000,000 sq ft AS OF RIGHT... And with possible bonuses

[streetline]

Originally Posted by BVictor1

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/comm...-market-center

December 14, 2022 12:33 PM UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Developer buying CTA's Fulton Market control center, building new one on West Side
DANNY ECKER












They could build 1,000,000 sq ft AS OF RIGHT... And with possible bonuses

It's not completely clear from the article, but if it includes the parking lots this could be even bigger than it sounds.

The CTA building at 120 N. Racine is ironically heavy on surface parking; the building and Lot A take up the full block it's on, and Lots B&C&D take up half of the block to the east all the way from Randolph to Washington. That's room for multiple towers on multiple blocks.

Also, I'm amused that even parcels south of Randolph are now called "Fulton Market" not "Randolph Fulton Market" or just "Randolph"; it wasn't too long ago that Fulton was the afterthought in that title.

[SolarWind]

November 1, 2022

[SolarWind]

December 8, 2022

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by marothisu

3) A new 4 story (50 foot tall), 25 unit building with 8 parking spots at 6301 S Western Ave. It's currently a vacant 3 story building

This one hurts... why tear down a perfectly good building to put up another one of the same size?

https://www.remax.com/il/chicago/hom...85711073394884

The existing building is pretty deep floorplate for residential, but you could cut out a light court that also gives you the 8 parking spaces and an elevator tower.

[Jibba]

Originally Posted by SolarWind

November 1, 2022

This is handsome, well-proportioned; the brick is nice. But that cornice is... unrefined. It needs relief, like a cove or cyma or something. Looks like money was spent -- why stop at the cornice? Sticks out like a sore thumb.

[left of center]

Originally Posted by BVictor1

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/comm...-market-center


They could build 1,000,000 sq ft AS OF RIGHT... And with possible bonuses

Wowza! Anyone want to give Chase a call?

[marothisu]

Lakeview Lutheran Church, at 835 W Addison - near the Addison Red Line stop and a few blocks west of Halsted, is going to be torn down to build a new 6 story, 37 unit (affordable) building. City Council approved it yesterday although the zoning change was approved in 2020.

From the looks of it, maybe half of the existing surface parking lot may be built on. The design looks too suburban to me but if I had to take a positive away..I guess from a density and increase of height perspective it's good.

More current situation:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/83...!4d-87.6509619

https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/12...ts-new-church/

[west-town-brad]

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/rest...wpub-salt-shed

the original location of the Goose Island Brew Pub is relocating to 1200 W Blackhawk to be part of the Salt Shed development

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by Jibba

This is handsome, well-proportioned; the brick is nice. But that cornice is... unrefined. It needs relief, like a cove or cyma or something. Looks like money was spent -- why stop at the cornice? Sticks out like a sore thumb.

Because any real sculpted profile would get very expensive. It looks like they just did what they could with flat slabs of limestone.

So at the very least, it's a nice natural material that will patina nicely instead of cast stone or GFRC.

[untitledreality]

Originally Posted by marothisu

The design looks too suburban to me

It will fit in perfectly with the garbage police station and parking garage that permanently trashed (at least vacant lots have potential) that stretch of Addison a decade ago.

[Jibba]

Originally Posted by untitledreality

It will fit in perfectly with the garbage police station and parking garage that permanently trashed (at least vacant lots have potential) that stretch of Addison a decade ago.

It's possible the final design will look a little different/better(?) -- Blockclub article mentions that they updated some aspects of the design after the TOD ordinance was expanded, and that rendering is very old.

[r18tdi]

Don't remember seeing this one before. Pretty damn suburban (which is on par for Austin), but better than nothing:

Closed Sears Site In Austin To Get $100 Million Medical Facility, Grocery Store, Townhomes And Apartments, Neighbors Told

https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/12...eighbors-told/

[OrdoSeclorum]

Originally Posted by r18tdi

Don't remember seeing this one before. Pretty damn suburban (which is on par for Austin), but better than nothing:

Closed Sears Site In Austin To Get $100 Million Medical Facility, Grocery Store, Townhomes And Apartments, Neighbors Told

https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/12...eighbors-told/

I'm not sure if this is what anyone would think of as "Austin". Probably more Galewood. You can walk to Dominican University from here. It's west of the Frank Lloyd Wright studio in Oak Park.

But right now it's an empty mall parking lot.

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by OrdoSeclorum

I'm not sure if this is what anyone would think of as "Austin". Probably more Galewood. You can walk to Dominican University from here. It's west of the Frank Lloyd Wright studio in Oak Park.

But right now it's an empty mall parking lot.

Galewood is a neighborhood of Austin.

[Randomguy34]

Originally Posted by r18tdi

Don't remember seeing this one before. Pretty damn suburban (which is on par for Austin), but better than nothing:

Closed Sears Site In Austin To Get $100 Million Medical Facility, Grocery Store, Townhomes And Apartments, Neighbors Told

The residential component from the old plan is back, with 125 apartments and 25 townhomes