More change along Belmont: 3133 N Lakewood Ave gets gutted
Posted 7/29/2007 by Sheila Burt
We posted recently on the wave of development along Belmont Avenue. Here's yet another new project: a conversion at 1243 W Belmont Ave, which is being marketed with the building's address on the intersecting street, 3133 N Lakewood Ave.
The building will be gutted to make way for 25 condos and two retail spaces, says Denise Wilbur, a sales agent with Sudler Sotheby's International Realty, which is marketing the project. A fourth floor is being added to the east side of the building for two new-construction penthouses, she says.
"This is one of the last vintage buildings in the Lake View area that they are preserving," she says. "It's not your typical new-construction."
Five of the units - including the new-construction penthouses - have sold, she says. Condos will have one to four bedrooms and one to four baths, she says. Prices range from the $280s to the $680s, according to Wilbur, and garage parking costs $25,000.
Features will include 42-inch cabinets, granite countertops, Brazilian cherry floors and stainless steel appliances. Deliveries are expected in November 2007, according to Wilbur.
Comments
7/29/07
Joe Zekas said:
Some questions, Sheila.
You say "The building will be gutted …" The building was recently gutted. Is it being gutted again?
There are two separate buildings in this project. The new construction is, I believe, being added to the east building, not to the "east side of the building."
Work on this project began early in the year, so it's not news to those of us who've been passing it for the last 6 months.
the urban politician said:
Is this an apartment to condo conversion or a warehouse/commercial to condo conversion?
BWChicago said:
It was a rather derelict warehouse space.
irishpirate said:
"rather" is being generous. Ratty would be a better word.
7/30/07
the urban politician said:
The building to the left of it looks like it deserves to stick around. Does anybody know what the story is on that one?
Lee said:
I heard that this site housed a mask factory before it was vacated.
Carter said:
on Lakewood just south of Belmont there was (is?) an operation that bought scrap metal, copper wire, aluminum cans and so forth, that wouldn't be this, would it?
irishpirate said:
Methinks you are correct, Carter.
I say that with a high degree of certainty.
Carter said:
the photo is actually Belmont looking south, right? I think that is/was the place, I remember having a childhood dream squashed rather quickly when my brother & I found out that gathering soda and beer cans wasn't going to bring about instant wealth.
Joe Zekas said:
Carter,
The photo looks southeast along Belmont. The place you're thinking of was, if memory serves, just west of there and was called (?) Lakeview Recycling.
Back when we had a weekly newspaper a lot of our papers would end up there, collected by the homeless from our news boxes. And sometimes just sold there by dishonest distributors.
9/15/08
john said:
i hate the fact that lakeview changed i remember when their would be a lot of hispanics and africans americans, and then in the 90's the city changed and started doing their changes and all my people had left the neighborhood forcing them to move to neighborhoods like pilsen or the suburbs or at extremes homeless….. i hate everything about this neighborhood now!!! nothing but rich snobby people who at times can be racist.
i remeber the lakeview recycling center across the street from this building that made masks, and on lakewood and fletcher there would be a factory that made candies and a train used to come from wrightwood ave. head north on lakewood ave to belmont….. good times
it use to be dangerouse in this neighborhood… i remember on the corner of barry and lakewood their would be gun fights between the PBC 13 gang and Familia Stones gang…. back in the day……
and there would be Gangster Dicsiples on Belmont and Racine……….
i miss thoughs days…..