A Decade After The Fire, Building Permits Issued For Rental Building To Be Built On Empty Lot

4914 N. Clark rendering (Axios Architects)

Current view of 4914 N. Clark (Google)

Building permits have just been issued for a long-empty lot at Clark and Ainslie, a year and a half after the local block club approved the plan, and nearly a decade after the auto repair shop on the lot burned to the ground.

A one-story building that once housed a now-closed auto body shop immediately north of the empty lot will be demolished for the project.

The new development will be a four-story residential rental mixed-use development, with retail on the ground floor. There will be 54 apartments (five designated as affordable under the city's Affordable Requirements Ordinance), in a combination of studios, 1-bedrooms and 2-bedrooms. It will have 29 parking spaces and 27 bike parking spaces, two elevators, and a rooftop deck.

Construction is expected to take a year.

You can see complete plans on Ald. Pawar's 47th Ward development page.