RD Precision is building three distinctive new luxury single-family homes in the 2400 block of Greenview, just a block from Lincoln Park‘s popular Wrightwood Park.
Two of the 5-bedroom, 3 ½ bath homes are under contract and the third, at 2435 N Greenview, is priced at $1,549,900. The homes all have RD Precision’s signature dramatic staircase, high ceilings, craftsman finishes and multiple, large outdoor spaces, including a rooftop bar and front and rear decks.
The home has a two-car garage with a roof deck accessed from a deck off the family room.
Sergio & Banks’ Izabela Sloma has the listing and is our tour guide in the sponsored video.
What was demolished to make way for these?
Google Earth shows a 2 1/2-story residential builiding flanked on either side by vacant lots. My guess – and it’s only that – is that the only demo was the building on the middle lot.
Why would it matter?
“Why would it matter?” Always so abrasive. It was just a question.
And, curious to know what prompted the inquiry, I posed “just a question” in response, Jack.
I was only curious if this was filling in previously vacant lots.
Do a google “street view” search for 2435 Greenview.
Vacant lots and old frame building.
Up until the last five years or so the 2400 block of Greenview had the last remaining grouping of ugly ass frame unrenovated buildings in Lincoln Park. There was also a single monstrosity of ancient block that disappeared relatively recently. It was a throwback to the Lincoln Park of the sixties and seventies where Appalachians and people with strong Shh Caw Gah accents predominated.
Since that was essentially the last section of Lincoln Park to gentrify it makes sense that the last unrenovated grouping of buildings would be there.
I think there are two ugly ass ancient frame buildings with lime green siding still standing a few blocks northeast of there. I could be wrong. They look like 3 flats. They may have disappeared in the last few years. Even with the real estate downturn there was a surprising amount of small scale new construction and renovation going on in Lincoln Park and Lakeview. Small builders staying busy.
You’re taking me down memory lane, IP.
I once had an option to buy the old Milwaukee Road building on the east side of Southport north of Fullerton. The west side of the block was rent-a-mattress operations populated by Appalachians and Mexicans – not a friendly mix. Six or more mattresses in a room, rented in 8-hour shifts.
The area had Appalachian gangs, bad-to-the-bone teenagers who had been abandoned by their parents. They used to tear off pieces of the terra cotta coping on the roofline of the Milwaukee Road building and drop them toward passersby on the sidewalk. The empty building had electrical transformer equipment worth a lot of money that was wrecked for a few bucks worth of copper.
The pool hall just west of the Burger King at Southport and Fullerton seemed to spawn a murder a month, at minimum.
The area was so bad that the Kaiser family reportedly built Lakeshore Athletic Club out of pocket since none of their lenders would fund it.
This part of Lincoln Park’s not missing the 80s.
I’ve been past the 2433 – 39 Greenview site a dozen times in the past year because Montana Row was a client – whatever was on that site certainly wasn’t memorable.
Thanks Joe and Pirate, that’s what I wanted to know.
Hey. Do You know which architects have designed this building?
I don’t. Try following up with the real estate agent.