It is not easy to find affordable apartment rentals in Chicago. It’s been quite a challenge just to get them built. The pace of new multi-family housing construction hasn’t been fast enough to meet the demand.
Chicago’s planners, neighborhood committees, and designers spent long hours to get the 1611 West Division building project off of the ground in this rental-starved market. 1611 West Division was previously the address of a one-story Pizza Hut built in 1983. After it was demolished in 2012, developers Paul Utigard and Rob Buono, decided to construct an impressive 11-story, metal-and-glass, LEED-silver compliant apartment building on the site.