Construction is underway at Ivy Hall, the third and final phase of the 68-acre mixed-use community University Village, located adjacent to UIC on the Near West Side. Ivy Hall adds more than 160 condos, 30 townhomes and 36 single-family homes to the Village, boosting its total housing count to about 900 units. In its September issue, New Homes Magazine looks back on the development’s five years of progress.
Indeed, driving south from Roosevelt Road on Halsted Street, past the new shops, UIC dormitories and brick homes of University Village, it’s difficult to remember how desolate this strip was — and the leap of faith it required from early buyers. Buyers at Ivy Hall, the community’s final stage, don’t need that sort of imagination.
Read all about it in “Maxwell Street makeover.”