Bridgeport Village: TND in Chicago

[mendelman]

Checkout the development overview: Bridgeport Village

It is a development (at build-out) of approx. 350 single-family homes in the Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport. This location is about 4 miles southwest of the Loop and is built on old industrial land adjacent to Bubbly Creek (a tributary of the South Branch of the Chicago River).

It is one of the best examples of TND that I have seen. It is built right into the existing street grid of the neighborhood and has alleys with actually functional rear yards. unlike many TNDs with attached garages off alleys that completely kill the rear yards.

My understanding is that the houes are selling easily and going for over $600,000 for even the smallest units.

An aerial of the development site from 2002. The site is the area within the red lines:

Here are some photos I took recently:

Here are some the existing housing across the street from the development:

This picture acutally shows how intergrated the development is with the existing neighborhood.

[Recchia]

Interesting. Do you happen to know how many units per acre the site is being developed as?

[mendelman]

Interesting. Do you happen to know how many units per acre the site is being developed as?

It's probably somewhere beteen 11-15 units/acre.

[Recchia]

Not bad; well integrated, adjacent to already urban development, on a former brownfield. What kind of transit hook up does it have?

[Jacob Norlund - KC]

Looks nice. 11-15 is pretty dense.

Any commercial development?

[mendelman]

Not bad; well integrated, adjacent to already urban development, on a former brownfield. What kind of transit hook up does it have?

There is the Ashland stop of the Orange Line EL Stop about 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile away to the north.

Any commercial development?

No, this is simply a single-family detached house development. There is sufficient existing commercial in the surrounding neighborhoods.