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Fri, May. 24th, 2019

176 building permits posted
17 new construction permits posted
0 building violations posted
331 violation hearings to be held

Latest blog post Friday, May 17, 2019

Apartments & condos are banned in most of Chicago
by Steven Vance

The discussion of whether to allow zoning districts that ban multi-family housing is still hot across the United States, but no hotter than in conversation around SB50 in California. SB50 is a proposed legislation that would prevent municipalities from places limits on housing density below a certain amount near train and ferry stations and some bus routes. The legislation would also implement several protections to prevent displacement of people who rent their homes while also giving certain communities time to adopt their own legislation instead of SB50.

Part of the discussion, however, includes the role of limiting who can live in a community, and where, because of the prevalence of single-family zoning.

In the bulk of CA, it's illegal to build any type of housing other than single family homes. #SB50, the...

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Johnston Marklee (Los Angeles, CA) teamed with UrbanWorks Architects (Chicago, IL) to enter this design to the UIC Center for the Arts Competition.
Chicago is selling two city-owned lots at 435-447 E. 43rd Street to Food Matters, LLC (owned by Ellington Ellis), to "build an $8.2 million office, residential and retail complex, with a greenhouse. It will offer incubator space as well as public programming on nutrition and entrepreneurship".
Convert two buildings in the historic Chicago Manufacturing District into housing and commercial uses.
301 W Huron Street is a proposed new construction office building, part of a development with an addition to 308 W Erie Street. The building would be 186 feet tall, have 140,729 s.f. of office space, 8,385 s.f. of retail space, and 130 car parking spaces.

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New construction permits pulled in Chicago in the last 2 months since Sunday, March 24th, 2019

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