A four-story building with six condo units is now cleared for construction at 3045 N. Western Avenue in Roscoe Village, after the city issued a full building permit for the site. The project will replace an existing one-story frame building and a rear one-story brick structure on a midblock lot between W. Nelson Street and W. Barry Avenue, clearing the way for general contractor Titan Builders and Construction to begin work through completion.
The permit issuance is the final regulatory step in a process that started with a City Council rezoning of the property from M1-2 Light Manufacturing to B2-2 Neighborhood Mixed-Use District, according to Urbanize Chicago. That legislative approval, passed in August 2025 under zoning ordinance #22750-T1, was required because light-manufacturing zoning does not permit residential construction. Developer Marat Liavitskyi planned the development, which was designed by Hanna Architects.
What's Going Up on Western Avenue
The completed building will stand roughly 51 feet tall and hold a mix of unit types spread across its four stories, per Urbanize Chicago's reporting. Two four-bedroom duplex-down units will occupy the ground floor and basement, two three-bedroom homes will sit on the second floor, and two four-bedroom duplex-level homes will top out the third and fourth floors. Parking is built in too, with six spaces serving the six residential units through a mix of one-car and five-car garages at the back of the property.
On the outside, the design leans into a mix of textures and materials: a gridded front facade with white stacked brick coursing, Chicago common brick infill panels, and black spandrel panels and window frames, with inset balconies breaking up the facade. Lead architect John C. Hanna of Hanna Architects has designed dozens of multi-family infill buildings across Roscoe Village, Pilsen, and Lakeview, and the firm's work tends to specialize in three- to eight-unit multi-story residential structures, according to background reported by Chicago YIMBY.
A Companion Project Next Door
The 3045 N. Western building isn't going up alone. Liavitskyi is simultaneously building an adjacent sister project at 3047 N. Western Ave., a four-story, three-unit residential building designed by the same project team, per the outlet's reporting. Combined, the two buildings form a nine-unit residential cluster on what was previously a single 0.07-acre parcel occupied by light-industrial garages and commercial storage facilities built in the late 20th century, the site's history shows.
Demolition permits for the old structures at both 3045 and 3047 N. Western were issued by the city on June 3, 2026, naming Builder Luxury Inc. as the demolition contractor at an estimated cost of $25,000 per permit. City permit filings list the self-certified new construction permit for 3045 N. Western at a reported construction cost valuation of $954,592, the same account notes, with Titan Builders and Construction working alongside Hanna under the city's self-certification program that lets licensed architects expedite permit approvals.
No Affordable Units Required
Because the 3045 N. Western building contains six residential units, it falls below the ten-unit threshold that triggers mandatory affordable set-aside obligations under Chicago's Affordable Requirements Ordinance. As a result, all six units are expected to be sold or rented at market rate. By splitting the assemblage into a six-unit building and a separate three-unit building next door, the development sidesteps the inclusionary housing mandate that would otherwise apply to a single larger structure on the combined site.
The project sits on an arterial stretch of North Western Avenue near the southern border of Roscoe Village, a corridor that carries an estimated 35,000 vehicles a day and links the neighborhood to Avondale and Logan Square. It's also part of a broader wave of industrial-to-residential conversions moving through Roscoe Village over the past year, with commercial corridors along Belmont and Western avenues seeing repeated B2-2 rezonings for multi-unit condo buildings. Hoodline previously reported on a similar six-condo teardown along Belmont, and also covered the neighborhood's church-to-mansion conversion that fetched a $6.5 million price tag.
