Zia announced via Facebook that their last day is October 3, 2021. The space located at 3817 N. Ashland Avenue will be replaced by a Transit Oriented Development (aka, TOD). Rumors are still swirling they may take over the former Blue Bayou space on Southport.
Continue reading “Zia’s Lago Vista’s last day is October 3, 2021”Tag: New Construction
Touring Chicago’s Southport Corridor – Addison to Grace Street
A tour around Lakeview’s Southport Corridor neighborhood in Chicago during the Early Fall of 2021
Tour Time! Shopping, eating and playing between Addison and Grace Streets along Southport Avenue during the early Fall of 2021.

The Guild 
5411 Empanadas 
Ayman Hair Studio – Kid Create Studio 
Ayman Hair Studio – Kid Create Studio 
Bentley Pet Stuff – 2×10 Nails 
Big City Optical – Big City Dental 
Blaine Elementary School 
Bodega Sur 
Bombastic Cafe – The Former Blue Bayou 
Bombastic Cafe 
Cafe Tola 
Candyality 
Click Shoes – Baby Dolls 
Coalfire Pizza 
Ouizi Mural – CVS Pharmacy 
Ouizi Mural – CVS Pharmacy 
Dairy Queen 
dog-a-holics 
Tango Sur – 312 Estates – Bodega Sur- Cafe Tola 
Dona Tola 
El Marcado Food Mart 
European Wax Studio 
Fifth Third Bank 
Mercury Theater and Venus Cabaret 
Growing Smiles 
Jewel-Osco 
Julius Meinl 
Julius Meinl 
Massage Envy – Bank of America 
Mercury Theater and Venus Cabaret 
Music Box Theatre 
Music Box Theatre 
New Development 
New Retail coming from Chris Irwin 
Steingold’s Bagels 
Sushi Mura 
Suvarna – Sushi Mura 
312 Estates 
The Former Blue Bayou 
The Former Blue Bayou 
TS Organic Nails – Subway 
Two Penny Blue 
Unique Brow
This is what is coming to Goose Island in Chicago

Demo Permits Issued For Howard Brown Health Clinic At 3501 N. Halsted Street In Boystown
Howard Brown Health at 3501 N Halsted Street. Rendering by Architrave
From Chicago Yimby, “Demolition permits have now been issued for two single-story masonry buildings, clearing the way for a new Howard Brown Health Clinic to be located at 3501 N Halsted Street in Lake View’s Boystown neighborhood. The five-story mixed-use structure will comprise of 7,600 square feet of ground-level retail, two floors of clinic space, and three floors of Howard Brown administrative office space on the remaining levels.
Continue reading “Demo Permits Issued For Howard Brown Health Clinic At 3501 N. Halsted Street In Boystown”Former Sears store set to be replaced by six-story residential building
The mixed-use project calls for commercial space and parking topped by 207 apartments
From Urbanize Chicago, “A proposal from developer Novak Construction to redevelop the former Portage Park Sears location into a mixed-use complex won the crucial support of the Chicago Plan Commission. The $90 million project would reuse the commercial structure at 4730 W. Irving Park Road in the Six Corners shopping district, which has sat vacant since closing in July 2018.
Continue reading “Former Sears store set to be replaced by six-story residential building”Preservation Group Fights To Save Lakeview Bank

Construction has started at 3179 N. Clark Street for the Lakeview Connection. This is currently the site of Fifth Third Bank’s drive through and will include a smaller version of the branch, with several more retail spaces available. Rumors that Amazon Fresh is the signed grocery tenant are still swirling.
Continue reading “Preservation Group Fights To Save Lakeview Bank”Here is what is coming to 3415 N. Ashland Avenue
Another day, another new transit-oriented development (TOD) – this time on Ashland Avenue.

From Alderman Tunney’s Website:
Contemporary Concepts, in partnership with Wildwood Investments, an experienced Chicago-based multifamily investor (together, the “Sponsor”) is proposing to develop the property located at 3415-25 N. Ashland in the West Lakeview neighborhood. The project is currently zoned commercial; however, given the size and location of the lot, the Sponsor is proposing to rezone the project as multifamily and build a four-story, 53-unit masonry elevator building with a mix of studio, one and two-bedroom apartments. The property will include five affordable units.

Former Southport Lanes space for lease
Southport Lanes is officially closed, and the auction of items has ended. Signs have begun to be taken down and the property is for lease.
Southport Lanes has been liquidated and the space is now for lease.

The listing from Mid-America Commercial Real Estate includes a mixed-use retail space. See the listing in the photos below.

Optima Lakeview in final stages of construction
Optima Lakeview, a seven-story retail and apartment development is located at 3460 N Broadway

From Chicago Yimby: “Facade installation is now in its final stretch for Optima Lakeview, a seven-story retail and apartment development by Optima Inc. Located at Lakeview East‘s 3460 N Broadway, the new development will yield a total of 14,000 square feet of retail and 198 apartments, ranging from one-bedrooms through three-bedrooms.

Here is what is coming to 3347-49 N. Southport Avenue
It’s been close to a year since this abandoned building has been torn down for a new Transit-Oriented Development.
Two years ago, proposed plans came out on a new TOD development replacing an abandoned building at 3347-49 N. Southport. The original proposal was not received too well by the community, and the developer came back with a new plan, going from 6 floors down to 5 back in November, 2019.

1118 W. Patterson Avenue ready to rise by Wrigley Field
Building permits are good to go for 1118 W. Patterson Avenue
This is what is coming to 3714 N. Southport Avenue
Construction is continuing at 3714 N Southport Avenue in Lake View.
“Filed under owner Charles Stewart, the development will yield one commercial unit at ground level, with three residential units above. Parking will include three outdoor spaces in the rear of the building. The new structure is set to replace a two-story masonry building with one additional level of below-grade retail.

Possible design for 3714 N Southport Avenue. Rendering via 42floors









