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Originally Posted by marothisu
New construction permit was issued a few days ago for the bad looking parking lot that's directly south of where that new 7 story, 63 unit building at the corner of Warren & Ashland was permitted a month ago. This one will be for 3 stories and 12 units - unfortunately I think there will be a 12 spot surface parking lot there after- but that little area should see a big improvement as far as erasing vacant land/surface lots go for sure.
Current: https://www.google.com/maps/place/11...!4d-87.6667291
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This is Heartland Alliance's low income housing project. The site plan includes the midrise and lowrise portions. 12 spaces in a surface lot, 7 spaces in the midrise. 19 spaces total is not bad for a 75 unit project. Plus the parking lot will be screened from the Madison St side and no curb cut, all access is from the alley.
Overall this project is so much better than the Michigan Ave Real Estate Group schlock that is infesting this area. No blank walls! The midrise will have amenity space on the ground floor with windows, but the lowrise will weirdly have ground floor residential. I know they're trying to serve elderly/disabled people, but jeez, this is one intersection where you don't want to live at grade...
OEMC owns the lot next door facing Ogden. Hopefully one day OEMC can move out of the West Loop, they're sitting on so much developable land and just using it for parking. And the permanent street closures are bad also. At least the Police Academy and
their ridiculous parking lots are going away soon...