Wilson Avenue Theater Redevelopment Gets Refined, Filed
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. 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...
A Closer Look at the Uptown TOD Coming to the Wilson Avenue Theater
Late last month the Chicago Plan Commission approved the redevelopment of the old Wilson Avenue Theater (1050 West Wilson Avenue), a vaudeville playhouse that has seen better times. The project also includes building a seven-story residential addition on the east side of the old building, currently a surface parking lot. The project by Cedar Street Companies is right across the from the CTA’s Wilson Red Line Station, so it...