A long-vacant seven-story office building on Superior Street is finally getting a second act, with a new permit clearing the way for its conversion into 88 apartments.
The plan leans hard into reuse: the existing central courtyard stays, two three-story corner additions get tacked on, and the ground-floor retail hangs on. What you will not see is on-site car parking. Instead, the project boosts bicycle storage, signaling that anyone moving in here is expected to be more pedal power than horsepower. H&S Remodeling Inc. is listed as the general contractor, and developers say interior work can begin even as a formal schedule is still being hammered out.
As reported by Urbanize Chicago on Feb. 27, 2026, architect Kennedy Mann’s adaptive-reuse design will carve the old office space into 88 residential units wrapped around roughly 5,500 square feet of ground-floor retail. The lineup calls for 29 studios, 40 one-bedrooms and 19 two-bedrooms.
Residents are slated to get a basement amenity level with a fitness room, saunas and a multipurpose space, plus a rooftop deck up top. Plans also show four apartments oriented toward the alley at the rear of the property and 88 bike parking spaces taking the place of any private vehicle stalls.
Permit Paperwork And Contractor
Industry permit trackers show that a renovation permit for the address has officially been issued, clearing interior demolition and residential buildout to move forward. According to BuildZoom, H&S Remodeling Inc.'s permit log includes an issued entry for 56 E. Superior under permit number 101066583, signaling that the project has cleared the initial city reviews needed to start work.
Developer Timeline And Buy
Honore Properties, working with partner Peerless Development, bought the Superior Street building earlier this year for about $5.7 million. Honore founder Michael Shenouda told the Chicago Sun-Times that demolition and prep work are already underway inside the structure.
The Chicago Sun-Times also reports that the development team is aiming to wrap construction in spring 2027. A formal construction schedule has not been posted, and the timeline could still shift depending on permitting and broader market conditions.
Where This Fits In River North
Preservation-minded observers have framed the Superior Street conversion as a win for reuse, especially compared with the previously floated high-rise concept for the same block. In their view, keeping the existing masonry structure while layering in new housing threads the needle between adding density and maintaining some neighborhood character.
Chicago YIMBY traces the property’s long-running development saga and situates this latest plan within a broader wave of office-to-residential conversions sweeping across River North and the Near North Side.
