WICKER PARK — Two proposed developments — a 30-unit residential building near the Wicker Park/Bucktown Milwaukee strip by 'The 606' and a hotel in Noble Square at the corner of Ashland and North avenues that would replace a Shell gas station — will be introduced to the public on Wednesday.
Set for 6 to 8 p.m. at First Lutheran Church, 1649 W. Le Moyne St., the meeting will center on the proposed residential building at 1665 North Milwaukee Avenue and the proposed hotel at 1551 West North Avenue (North & Ashland Ave.)
Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) announced the meeting on Monday in his weekly e-newsletter.
Hopkins said that the meeting is being held in collaboration with members of the Wicker Park Committee and Noble Square Homeowners Association, two neighborhood groups that would be impacted by the projects.
The hotel was first introduced last July as a 7-story, 99-unit structure that was tabled after a community meeting. On Wednesday, the developer is expected to show updated and amended plans to what was first pitched, a spokesman for Hopkins told Our Urban Times.
The proposed apartments were first introduced in March 2014 as a 8-unit luxury condo building. An "upzone' was granted for that project, but the condition of the long boarded-up building that would have housed the homes had since worsened, and it was demolished over the summer.
Now, the owners want to create a higher-density 30-unit apartment building on the site, according to Ed Tamminga, chairman of the Wicker Park Committee's Preservation and Development Committee.
The building at 1665 N. Milwaukee Ave. that was torn down and what could replace it. [LG Construction]
A note on a building expressing an opinion about the new 30-unit apartment plan. [DNAinfo/Alisa Hauser]
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