{"id":517262,"date":"2026-03-11T15:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517262\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:19:19","slug":"casa-yucatan-reaches-eighth-and-final-floor-in-pilsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517262\/","title":{"rendered":"Casa Yucatan Reaches Eighth And Final Floor In Pilsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Precast concrete panels have been lifted to the eighth floor of the Casa Yucatan affordable housing development at South Ashland Avenue and West 16th Place in <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagoyimby.com\/category\/pilsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pilsen<\/a>. There\u2019s a ways to go before this one tops out though, as only a handful of the pieces are in place on the top floor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-05.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rear of the building from 21st Place. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-06.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Setting a precast panel in place. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-07.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-08.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p>The Resurrection Project is developing project and Design Bridge is the architect. The Blackwood Group and Crane Construction are sharing general contracting chores. The 98-unit building will feature a mix of 38 one-bedroom, 34 two-bedroom, and 26 three-bedroom apartments, all of them designated as affordable housing. There will be 20 parking spaces available in a surface lot. Tenant amenities include a multi-purpose room, training center, reading room, bike storage, and a courtyard with a children\u2019s playground.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Casa-Yucatan-02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3126\" height=\"1786\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendering of Casa Yucatan by DesignBridge<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Casa-Yucatan-04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3126\" height=\"1909\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendering of Casa Yucatan by DesignBridge<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-10.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">North fa\u00e7ade. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-11.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" 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-88703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-14.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-15.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-16.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p>All permits have used the address of 1609 West 21st Place. A caisson permit for the development came through on December 17 2024, but work didn\u2019t begin on the site until last summer. The full permit was issued on May 9 2025 with a reported cost of #39 million. Presumably waiting until all the concrete panels are locked in place, a hoist permit awaits in the Chicago Data Portal as of December 22. Once that\u2019s installed. windows can go in and interior work can begin in earnest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Casa-Yucatan-05-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3126\" height=\"4386\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Floor plans of Casa Yucatan by DesignBridge<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-79017 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-site-05.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Yucatan March 2026 construction update\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">May 2025, waiting for site prep to begin. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-17.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-18.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking northeast from Blue Island Avenue. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-20.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" 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-88709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-21.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"937\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The south fa\u00e7ade. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-02.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-03.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phot by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-04.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/casa-yucatan-march-2026-19.jpg\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a distance. Photo by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Google-Maps-03-09-2026_07_59_PM.png\" alt=\"All permits used the address of 1609 West 21st Place.\u00a0\" width=\"849\" height=\"572\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Site context of Casa Yucatan, via Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Casa Yucatan is rising across the street from Benito Juarez High School, one block north of the busy intersection of Ashland Avenue, West Cermak Road, and South Blue Island Avenue. CTA Route 9, X9, 21, and 60 buses all have stops here. The 18th Pink Line and Damen Pink Line stations are both available within about a half-mile walk. For suburban excursions, the Cermak bus and the Western Avenue #49 can be used to connect with the Western Avenue BNSF Metra station about a mile and a quarter northwest.<\/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\/pilsen\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pilsen<\/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":"Precast concrete panels have been lifted to the eighth floor of the Casa Yucatan affordable housing development at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-517262","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\/517262","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=517262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}