Wilson Avenue Theater Redevelopment Gets Refined, Filed

Wilson Theater redevelopment diagram

The people who want to turn the old Wilson Avenue Theater in Uptown into new residences have filed the necessary paperwork with the city for its bureaucrats and politicians to ponder its approval.

Wilson Avenue Theater (Courtesy of Building Up Chicago)

The project would restore the theater building, designed by Henry L. Ottenheimer, while at the same time putting up a pack of pads for the rapidly improving neighborhood. The neighborhood will also benefit from a freshly rehabbed community theater right across the street from a major transit station.

When we last visited this project, the developer planned to take advantage of Chicago’s recently renovated Transit Oriented Development rules and leave out much of the the parking, save for 16 ever-so-precious spaces. The current plan, filed with the city a few days ago, has increased the parking to 44 spaces in an inside garage.

It’s also increased the number of residences from 110 to 197. 155 of them will be efficiencies.

Lots of other details have been refined since June, and so we supplement June’s garden hose with one of the full 50-foot, 400 PSI attack variety:

• Address: 4601 North Broadway
• Address: 1056 West Wilson Avenue
• Address: 4616 North Winthrop Avenue
• Developer: Broadway and Wilson LLC
• Architecture firm: MX3 Architects
• Current zoning: B3-2 Community Shopping District
• Requested zoning: B3-5 Community Shopping District
• Maximum height: 104½ feet
• Length: 171 feet, seven inches
• Width: 144 feet, eight inches
• Net site area: 30,012 square feet
• Floor space: 149,730 square feet
• Floor Area Ratio: 5.0
• Retail space: 11,550 square feet
• Residences: 197
• Parking spaces: 44
• Car sharing spaces: 3
• Bicycle parking: 20 spaces on the sidewalk, 153 inside
• Loading docks: 2
• Loading dock access: via stub alley off Winthrop Avenue
• Divvy station on south side of building
• Green roof alert! 10,148 square feet

Stacking:

• 10: Common space
• 4-9: Residential
• 3: Residential, Common Space
• 2: Parking
• 1: Lobby, Retail, Parking

from Chicago Architecture http://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2016/07/26/wilson-avenue-theater-redevelopment-gets-refined-filed/