A residential building on Kenmore Avenue in Uptown, a few blocks east of Clark Street and Leland Avenue. Photo: Warren LeMay from Chicago, IL, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Anderson, a five-story rental building at the northeast corner of Clark Street and Leland Avenue, was finished this year and has brought 36 new apartments to the blocks just east of Chase Park.
Chicago YIMBY, photographing the site in mid-March at 4713 N. Clark St., wrote that exterior work was nearly done and that Root Realty was marketing the apartments for a May opening, with rents starting at $2,095 for one-bedrooms and $2,950 for two-bedrooms as of that report, and a garage for 18 cars. Platinum Homes is the developer and general contractor; 360 Design Studio designed the building. A Byline Bank branch had stood on the corner until it was demolished more than three years earlier. Construction started after a permit on Jan. 6, 2025, YIMBY wrote.
By July, Block Club Chicago was referring to The Anderson as a completed building that had “recently brought 36 apartments to the neighborhood,” across from Chase Park on the Clark Street corridor. The Route 22 bus stops at the lobby; the Wilson Red and Purple Line station is a short ride or a longer walk east.
Those advertised rents, if they held, put the building in the same expensive new-construction bracket neighbors have come to expect on Clark. Lisa, a commenter on the YIMBY post, put the objection simply: “We need affordable housing, single people cannot afford 2000+ rent.” The building is up either way, and it is now part of the block.
