Pro membership sale through Monday

Cool new zoning tool

Zoning Assessment, featured in this screenshot, is a great site selection tool for developers and architects. Open your target neighborhood and search for keywords like “apartment” or “mixed-use” and the map will change in real-time to show where those building types can be built as of right.

For CTA and Metra stations, it shows the zoning districts within a 10 minute walk or bike shed. Look at the Morgan Green/Pink Line station, for example.

Neighborhood news

• The Cook County Land Bank Authority has rehabbed its 200th house (actually, they employ local developers and contractors to do the actual renovations) (Crain’s) — view their current properties for sale
• CityLab highlights seven buildings across the country whose owners renovated them by taking advantage of the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit, including the Wrigley Building in 2012 — the credit could be gutted by Congress
• PullmanArts, Artspace, and Chicago Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) intend to break ground on the Pullman Artspace Lofts in the Pullman community area in the spring
• Keep up with the issues and fears about the impacts to residents that the Obama library may bring; not everyone in Woodlawn/Jackson Park thinks a community benefits agreement is ideal (Chicago Reporter)
• Trianon Lofts in Woodlawn is supposedly the first market rental apartment building in 40 years (Curbed)