East Lincoln Park grey-stone sells for $2,200,000, will be demolished

438 West St. James Place is scheduled for demolition (All photos Eric Rojas, Broker, Kale Realty)

Another East Lincoln Park vintage grey-stone will be torn down. 438 West St. James Place was purchased in 2019 for $2,200,000. A demolition permit was issued at the end of last month and I noticed the fences up yesterday. I do not see any building permits yet for the address. The 33'x146' lot size with RM-6 would allow for a large new construction home. I could also see a high-end four-flat developed here.

The home is adjacent to a large multi-unit to the west and the Mansueto mansion garage entrance to the east. 

The vintage grey-stone was fully renovated circa 2000. The desirable lot sits between the vintage multi-unit building to the west and the newer build Mansueto mansion to the east. Here's a post I did about that house and the area in 2015. The house was sold to Dio Realty LLC... I'm a bit surprised Mansueto did not buy the property (assuming Dio Realty is not associated but I could be wrong).

The Mansueto mansion takes up half the block.

The modern colossal sit among mostly vintage homes on St James Place.

400 block of West St. James Place neighbors

OK Boomer's! New development begins on long shuttered Lincoln Square nightclub site

Photos of the Boomer's demolition taken today.  All photos Eric Rojas, Broker, Kale Realty

The infamous and long vacant Boomers nightclub property in Lincoln Square has been torn down this week. We first broke the story about the potential development in 2018. 5015-5039 N Lincoln Avenue that WAS home to the shuttered club, a Pizza Hut take-out and MRI facility was issued a demolition permit early this week. The developers wasted no time in tearing down the one story retail.

40th Ward Alderman Andre Vasquez provided an update yesterday on the development. 24 residential units are coming to the site. 

The good old days? I would have loved to save that sign!!

The median price of a sold condo on this strip (attached unit including town houses) from 4800 N Lincoln to 5200 N Lincoln is about $500,000 over the last 12 months.

Demolished "workers cottage" in Gold Coast sold for $1.5 million, still empty lot

1241 N State Parkway in Gold Coast is to be redeveloped as a new construction three story home. (All photos Eric Rojas, Bob DePalma - Kale Realty)

Photo of 1241 N State Parkway from the Cook County Assessor office. The exterior of the  home had since been painted but was not in good living condition. What a great house though!

We passed the site of 1241 N State Parkway today. The "140 year old" worker's cottage property was purchased for $1.5 million last year and torn down with some controversy. Some folks would have liked this home (and similar structures) preserved and I tend to agree in this case. One preservation group would like to landmark the greater Gold Coast.

1241 N State Parkway from the alley.

Construction has not started yet.  It is possible the developer will look for a design and build client or still working on the details for a speculation build.

25 East Cedar and Gold Coast home sales

We've watched this Gold Coast house location for many years.  The original property was torn down and tied to Frank Lloyd Wright as a personal residence.  The newly built property took a few years or so to finally complete. It looks fairly natural in it's surrounding area.

25 East Cedar is adjacent to a high-rise to the east and another larger, recent build single family home to the west.

17 single family and row homes have sold in the last twelve months in the Gold Coast neighborhood. The median price is about $2 million.  One notable sale last year was a rare remaining cottage at 1241 N State Parkway.  It sold for $1.5 million and was to be torn down by the developer/ purchaser. 
A demolition permit was issued in October of last year.

Sad! Lincoln Park vintage stunner on Wrightwood gone forever

We always stopped for a second look while passing 1117-1119 West Wrightwood in Lincoln Park. The vintage building was recently torn down. (All photos Eric Rojas, Broker, Kale Realty)

Oversized lot 48 x 124.5. Sale is not on MLS but the recorded deed has an amount of $2,435,000.

@_GXM     https://twitter.com/_GXM  tipped us off on the demo delay list and demo permit.

Crain's looks at top Chicago neighborhoods for demolition permits

A former Children's Memorial office building is torn down at West Fullerton and North Orchard in Lincoln Park.  A new, almost identical looking Senior housing building will go up in it's place. Homes and entire buildings, large and small, have been demolished for development or safety reasons at seemingly a record pace over the past few years. (Photo Eric Rojas, Kale Realty)

We are no stranger on these pages to discussing demolition and development around Chicago as it pertains to our day to day dealings.  Chicago has had a frantic three year run of demolition. It's the most active period of tear down and development I've witnessed in my lifetime on the North Side of the city.  But demo permits are high in some South Side neighborhoods as the data show (but for different reasons).  

Crain's real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin uses data from a great resource Chicago Cityscape to look at demo (and building) permits in several of the most active neighborhoods. West Town (Ukrainian Village, Wicker Park, Bucktown etc...) and West Englewood  lead in demo permits but are complete opposites in construction permits.  Check out the story and graphic here.

Demo, demo, demo at old Children's Memorial in Lincoln Park

You have to visit the site to get the full effect of the eerie Children's Memorial demolition in the heart of a busy Lincoln Park neighborhood. I took a few more photos last week after visiting 444 West Fullerton. The large hospital structure is almost entirely gone and the site lines driving west up Fullerton are striking.  Here's a look at the over-all development plan.

I can't help but double take when I approach the open space at the corner of West Fullerton and North Orchard in Lincoln Park.  The tedious demolition of the former Children's Memorial Hospital nears completion.

This terra cotta structure at Fullerton and Lincoln is the latest victim of the re-development plan of the multiple sites at Children's Memorial. 

It will be a relief when this part of town is put back together.