Do you bleed Cubbie blue? Have you conveniently called in sick any afternoon this week? Does your team pride play a central role, or any role at all, in your search for a new home?
If you’ve answered yes to one or more of these questions, consider this: Instead of cramming into a Red Line car with a bunch of drunkards, spending hard-earned hot-dog money on a parking spot, or pedaling your way along Clark or Addison like the person above, you could just walk to Wrigley Field to catch a game. It’s not that hard to find something in or around Wrigleyville, if you know where to look. (And you do – that’s why you’re here.)
You’ll want a place within stumbling distance of the Friendly Confines, of course. (I’m sure some folks drink Diet Coke at a baseball game, but I haven’t met any.) In that case, let’s limit our search to about five blocks in any direction from the stadium. I found eight new-construction homes and rehabs within that radius.
They are:
- Racine Flats, 3424 N Racine Ave: 13 two- to three-bedrooms in the $330s to $440s
- 3539 N Reta Ave: Six condos from the $330s
- 3546 N Reta Ave: Eight three-bedrooms in the $590s
- Sheffield Condo Living, 3808 N Sheffield Ave: 31 one- to two-bedrooms in the $190s to $370s
- Waveland Place, 733 W Waveland Ave: 13 three-bedrooms from the $390s
- 740 W Addison St: One-bedrooms from the $210s
- Park View East, 828 W Grace St: 140 two- to three-bedrooms in the $240s to the $380s
- 837 W Newport Ave: Two- to four-bedrooms in the $540s to the $890s
You can pick up another dozen projects just by expanding that search by another block or two. To find information on all of those developments, you’ll have to skim the North Side Quick Guide in the latest New Homes Magazine. Find a copy at any of these locations.