A house on Castlewood Terrace in Buena Park, in southern Uptown. Photo: Alanscottwalker, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A small condo building is already three stories up at 4650 N. Magnolia Ave., on a lot where a frame house from 1890 stood until this spring.
Chicago YIMBY reported on Aug. 9 that brickwork had reached the third level of a three-story, four-unit building there. A construction permit issued April 15 covers two duplex-down units on a lower level, with simplex units on the second and third floors, a private roof deck and a rooftop stair penthouse, YIMBY wrote. Parking is four surface spaces on a pad, with no garage in the current permit. Chf Prop LLC bought the property in December 2025 for $740,000, received a demolition permit on April 6, and had the old house down within days. N.L.I.E. Construction is the general contractor, and Stoneberg + Gross Architects designed the building. YIMBY wrote that sales listings for the four condos had not yet appeared.
The site is in the blocks around Lawrence and Wilson, a quieter residential street than Broadway or Clark, and a reminder that not every new Uptown project is a 90-unit mid-rise. Four units will not reshape the neighborhood’s rents, but they do replace a demolished house with new condos, and the roof deck and fourth parking pad will be the details buyers will see when the listings finally go up.
