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We love lists: One more time with the townhouses

Posted 8/27/2008 by Joseph Askins

Lake Park Crescent, North Kenwood-Oakland, Chicago

In the final installment of my three-part list of Chicago's townhouse projects, I turn to the West, Southwest, and South sides of the city. There, most of the townhouses you'll find are part of large, mixed-income community projects that combine public housing with market-rate homes, although a few developments appear to be more of the smaller-scale infill variety.

Buyers who don't mind a long drive from downtown can find two-bedroom townhouses for as low as the $200s in Washington Heights or three-bedrooms starting in the $260s in West Elsdon. The most expensive homes on the South Side are found at Lake Park Crescent in North Kenwood-Oakland (above), where four-bedrooms start in the $690s, and in Bridgeport, where the biggest three-bedroom remaining at 33rd Street Square is priced in the $670s.

Unlike a lot of the homes on my prior townhouse lists, these developments have their share of question marks. A lot of these projects are stuck in their first phases, and although they have space to expand, they aren't exactly booming with activity. Others are still in the marketing phase could have a hard time seeing the light of day.

Are you familiar with any of the following projects? Click the "rate and review" link next to any of them to post your thoughts on NewHomeNotebook.com.

Bridgeport:

Bronzeville:

Calumet Heights:

East Beverly:

The Gap:

Kenwood:

Lawndale:

McKinley Park:

North Kenwood-Oakland:

Washington Heights:

West Elsdon:

- See our list of Loop / downtown townhouses.
- See our list of North Side townhouses.

Comments

8/27/08

milly said:

Arbor Park has been abandoned for some time, are they re-starting the development?

8/28/08

Joseph Askins said:

milly:

I pulled together my list from our NewHomeNotebook.com files, so this may be a case of us having an outdated listing. As I said above, a lot of these projects are moving at a slower pace — if at all — than the ones in my other lists, and we usually leave projects in our database until they've been abandoned for good, instead of just put on hold. (The project's Web site is still up and running, for example.)

I see that we haven't written anything about the project since October, so it's certainly worth an update. If I learn anything either way, I'll post it up on Yo.

8/29/08

milly said:

Thanks, my mom lives in the neighborhood. I've told her to ask the alderman about it, as it's turning into an eyesore with no work being done.

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