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Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 8h

Coming soon: a smaller warehouse at the western edge of the Near West Side.

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Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 12h

Across the street from the XS Tennis facility, a proposed development with two buildings; one would ...

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Across the street from the XS Tennis facility, a proposed development with two buildings; one would be a Hyatt Studios with 125 rooms and the other would be a residential building with 51 affordable dwelling units, sharing 72 car parking spaces.

Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 1d

they are!
the website says appointment only for now

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The Garfield-Clarendon Model Railroad Club is a Chicago based HO scale model railroad club. We meet in the Clarendon Park Community Center in the Uptown neighborhood.

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Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 1d

thank you! this will be fixed in future tweets

Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 1d

Uptown’s Clarendon Park Community Center Reopens After $13 Million Renovation

The community cente...

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Uptown’s Clarendon Park Community Center Reopens After $13 Million Renovation

The community center, built in 1916, was once threatened with demolition, but neighbors advocated for its preservation.

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Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 2d

This garage – with the name Polonia Dairy Co. inscribed – and its coach house are subject to a demolition permit issued this week. buff.ly/Gzm5Nml

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Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 2d

Find exactly the properties in Chicago or Cook County that you're looking for by using our exclusive filters: incentives, TOD, and government-owned land, and more. Start here: buff.ly/jUrVxQ1

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

Huge Development site hit the market in Edgewater. Right on Sheridan, just south of Loyola, couple blocks from the redline. Demolition in progress on the old hospital. Asking $6M for the entire site. Can the market support a new highrise again finally? www.loopnet.com/Listing/6130...

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Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 2d

Over in East Garfield Park a new 3-flat was permitted on a vacant lot – buff.ly/6r3Glwn

Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 3d

Both of these "office buildings" are going to be converted to single-family houses.
Learn about those and more Proposed Projects -> buff.ly/Er8RUDy

Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 3d

we're trying to track every commercial-to-residential conversion project buff.ly/FfKUVm0

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Audrey Wennink @awennink.bsky.social · 3d

The transit reform bill gives communities more tools to shape their communities around their transit stations. We need more people living and working near transit so more people can ride it. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/o...

Juan Sebastian Arias: Transit reform bill strengthens local decision-making on development

This is not about taking control away from communities. It is about giving them more tools to shape growth around transit.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 3d

we have several ways to try before you buy!

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graphic with text inviting to "try before you buy"; there are also three photos of construction projects in Chicago

Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 3d

Your article makes it clear that suburban residents have a lot to gain by reforming transit in the region

Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 4d

that’s some TOD
One block from an L station with two lines

49 homes, permitted by right - www.chicagocityscape.com/permit/10100...

Photo of an apartment building under construction and taken from across the street

Photo of the same apartment building under construction, taken on the sidewalk on the narrow side of the building

Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 4d

Our Chicago zoning map 🗺️ has been updated, with the city's edits made through September 23.

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Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 4d

I wonder how many parking spaces it had

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 5d

The Gladstone Hotel; then and now. Look at how dense Woodlawn used to be!

Postcard showing an 8 story hotel on a corner lot

old postcard showing an aerial view of Woodlawn in maybe the 1940's?

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Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 5d

Check if your property is eligible for any of 40 financial & development incentives that are geographically-based.
Review the list and look up an address: buff.ly/z3cvmQa

screenshot of Incentives Checker feature

Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 5d

our ADU lookup tool has been updated to show future eligibility info

www.chicagocityscape.com/address.php?...

An apartment building in Chicago, and text indicating its current and future eligibility to have an ADU

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 6d

Something I missed about Rachel Herzog's report in Crain's on the Pittsfield Building office-to-residential conversion is that the plan includes an observation deck at the top.
www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-r...

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Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 6d

It looks like the building that had the former Hero's Sub Shop is sticking around a little longer, after this renovation permit was issued. Read about the new tenant -> buff.ly/fjplftI

google street view image of a small 1-story commercial building

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Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 6d

A new building with 40 homes in Albany Park was permitted. See where -> buff.ly/iGCr2wl

Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 7d

why's that?

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Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com · 7d

Lakeview?