A storefront on Leland Avenue in Uptown, near the Clark Street blocks next to Chase Park. Photo: Warren LeMay from Chicago, IL, United States, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A six-story, 95-unit apartment building has been proposed for the old counseling-center property next to Chase Park, at 4730-52 N. Clark St., and it would need a zoning change from 47th Ward Ald. Matt Martin before it can proceed.
Block Club Chicago reported in July that Raftery Construction is asking for that change to build 95 apartments and 7,600 square feet of commercial space. Plans shared by Martin’s office called for 20 one-bedrooms, 70 two-bedrooms and five three-bedrooms, with 40 off-street parking spaces and 95 bike spaces. Nineteen apartments would be affordable under the city’s Affordable Requirement Ordinance, for households earning less than 60% of area median income, or $51,060 for a one-person household, the alderman’s office said.
Because the site borders Chase Park, 4701 N. Ashland Ave., the developer would work with the Park District to turn the south part of the east-west alley into publicly accessible green space, according to Martin’s office. The two-story commercial building on the lot used to be a Community Counseling Centers of Chicago location and is closed. Raftery had applied for a demolition permit, Block Club wrote, but the permit had not been granted as of that report.
Martin’s office was collecting online feedback and planned to take the request to the 47th Ward Zoning Advisory Council in August, then schedule a community meeting. Uptown Update, which first noted the pending sale of the former C4 property, published renderings by Hanna Architects and described a building that would cover most of the lot, with trees along the east and south sides. Until the zoning change is approved, it remains a proposal, not a construction start.
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