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New construction projects in Chicago since Monday, March 18th, 2019

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Chicago stats today
Mon, Mar. 25th, 2019

0 building permits posted
0 new construction permits posted
1 building violations posted
402 violation hearings to be held

Latest blog post Friday, March 22, 2019

Oak Park adopts a TOD and inclusionary housing rule
by Steven Vance

Update 3/22/19 20:06: A Village planner graciously emailed me to point out some misinterpretations and a mistake in the map. Those have been corrected.

Last week the Village of Oak Park’s board of trustees adopted a Transit-Oriented Development and inclusionary housing/zoning ordinance to require affordable housing in new apartment buildings in its newly established TOD areas. If you know the Affordable Requirements Ordinance (ARO) in Chicago, the rules in Oak Park will look familiar.

If a proposed development has 25 or more apartments and needs a zoning change from the village, then the development has to comply. Ten percent of the units in that development must be affordable to a household that earns 60 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI), which is the same rule as in...

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A new theater from Steppenwolf that would occupy a surface parking lot. The theater designer is Charcoalblue from the UK
Updated renderings that show the new (2nd) location of a proposed CTA Red Line station. Originally was proposed at the SE corner of 15th/Clark (3rd Ward), and now proposed at the SW corner of 15th/Clark (25th Ward).
A proposed 47-story mixed-use building with hotel, residential, and retail components that would replace an existing 4-story masonry building. To be developed by Sterling Bay and Magellan, designed by bKL Architecture. The 47-story structure includes a 523-foot shared residential- and hotel-tower over a retail podium. Two basement levels below Upper Michigan Avenue would house the building utility and parking functions, including 26 parking stalls and 48 bike parking stalls. There would be 280 hotel rooms and 290 dwelling units. The DX-16 zoning district allows an FAR of 16.0, and the developers are going to purchase 9.9 more FAR points for a total of 25.9.
A proposed 18-story office building that would replace the John R. Morreale Meat warehouse at 820 W. Fulton Market, the old Isaacson & Stein Fish Company building at 800 W. Fulton Market, and the former home of the The Mid nightclub.

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New construction permits pulled in Chicago in the last 2 months since Friday, January 25th, 2019

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