{"id":449035,"date":"2026-02-04T19:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/449035\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:15:17","slug":"windows-installed-at-629-west-lake-in-west-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/449035\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Installed At 629 West Lake In West Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first windows have been installed on the south end of the residential construction at 629 West Lake Street in the <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagoyimby.com\/category\/west-loop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">West Loop<\/a>. Soon, the palletized windows stacked just inside the outer walls will be added to the facade as well.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-story, 49-unit development from Continuum Real Estate Brokers topped out in December. As window installation progresses, crews from Chicago Common Construction will be able to begin work on the interiors once they\u2019re sealed off from the elements. The Axios Architects-designed project will have two parking spaces and 2,000 square feet of retail at ground level, plus spaces for 49 bicycles. A single penthouse unit and the building\u2019s amenities will be located on the top floor, with the bulk of the apartments located on the second through seventh floors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/629-west-lake-january-2026-02.jpg\" alt=\"629 West Lake Street glass added\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresh glass adorns the south end of 629 West Lake. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/629-west-lake-janu-2026-006.jpg\" alt=\"629 West Lake Street glass added\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/629-west-lake-janu-2026-007.jpg\" alt=\"629 West Lake Street glass added\" width=\"1250\" height=\"937\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">More windows await. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-05-at-3.37.11-PM.png\" alt=\"629 W Lake Street\" width=\"1598\" height=\"1138\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendering of 629 West Lake Street by Axios Architects<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/629-west-lake-january-2026-04.jpg\" alt=\"629 West Lake Street glass added\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the alley at the south end of the building, were two garage spaces will be accessed. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/629-west-lake-january-2026-05.jpg\" alt=\"629 West Lake Street glass added\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/629-west-lake-janu-2026-005.jpg\" alt=\"629 West Lake Street glass added\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/629-west-lake-janu-2026-004.jpg\" alt=\"629 West Lake Street glass added\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/629-west-lake-janu-2026-001.jpg\" alt=\"629 West Lake Street glass added\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking south down Desplaines Street. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/629-west-lake-janu-2026-002.jpg\" alt=\"629 West Lake Street glass added\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p>Just one block south, this same three-player team will soon begin construction on a nine-story, 50-unit building of similar design at 135 North Desplaines Street. That project received its <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagoyimby.com\/2026\/01\/permission-granted-for-50-residential-units-at-135-north-desplaines-street-in-west-loop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">full permit on January 15<\/a>, and will replace a surface parking lot at the corner with West Randolph Street. A site visit on the 17th showed the parking lot had already been enclosed by construction fencing, and by January 26 an excavator had been delivered to the lot, indicating that site prep could get started any day.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid Update:<\/p>\n<p>Yes, site prep is underway. A site visit Tuesday morning showed not only work to tear up the parking lot and start digging, but also steel piles driven into the soil on the south side of the lot, next to the existing CTA\u2019s building at 127 North Desplaines. Photos of that coming soon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/135-north-desplaines-01.jpg\" alt=\"135 North Desplaines Street construction imminent\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">135 North Desplaines Street, January 17, 2026. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/135-north-desplaines-02.jpg\" alt=\"135 North Desplaines Street construction imminent\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/135-north-desplaines-03.jpg\" alt=\"135 North Desplaines Street construction imminent\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">135 North Desplaines Street with the excavator on site, January 26, 2026. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/135-north-desplaines-04.jpg\" alt=\"135 North Desplaines Street construction imminent\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p>No opening date has been made public for the units at 629 West Lake, nor is it clear if a crew will begin construction at 135 North Desplaines now, or wait until their first building is complete.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/g_VSUf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> to YIMBY\u2019s daily e-mail<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/yimbygram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow<\/a> YIMBYgram for real-time photo updates<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YIMBYFB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like<\/a>\u00a0YIMBY on Facebook<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yimbytweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow<\/a> YIMBY\u2019s Twitter for the latest in YIMBYnews<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chicagoyimby.com\/category\/west-loop\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Loop<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first windows have been installed on the south end of the residential construction at 629 West Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-449035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}