First Visit: Northwestern Medicine Bronzeville Outpatient Center

Rendering from Lamar Johnson Collaborative.

There’s a 237-stall parking garage with a tower crane stabbing through it, and now it’s on to the healthcare portion of Northwestern Medicine’s new facility at 4822 South Cottage Grove in the Grand Boulevard Community Area of Chicago.

The Bronzeville Outpatient Center will be a 120,000 square foot building containing an immediate care center, a cancer center with chemotherapy services, primary and specialty care services, and a pharmacy, among other features. Expected to treat over 50,000 patients each year, its anticipated opening is Fall 2025.

The rest of the construction team includes:
Lamar Johnson Collaborative — Design Architect
Power Construction — General Contractor
UJAMAA — General Contractor
Adjustable Concrete Construction — Concrete Contractor
As always, links to those team members will provide a wealth of information on the new development.

To date, Northwestern Medicine has received building permits for:
Foundations — Issued 03/30/2023
Tower Crane — Issued 09/21/2023
Full Building — Issued 01/30/2024

Photos from a short visit on Monday, Feb 26 (shout-out to the Power Pro I talked to briefly):

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Construction on Northwestern Medicine’s Irving Park healthcare facility ramps up

At 4445 West Irving Park, work on the parking-deck ramp is pun-derway.

The team of Power Construction and UJAMAA Construction have been hard at work getting the new Northwestern Medicine healthcare facility above street level at 4445 West Irving Park. This one’s only going up to four stories, as CannonDesign creation will top out relatively soon-ish, with just three more levels to go.

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Beneath the surface, work for Northwestern Medicine at 4445 W. Irving Park continues

The tower crane at 4445 W Irving Park

Ride the #80 bus past 4445 West Irving Park Road and you won’t see many new signs of construction on Northwestern Medicine’s 4-story facility. But get off the bus and take a peek into the abyss and you’ll see there’s a lot going on below street level. The block-long site still looks like a deep excavation, but not nearly as deep as the first visit back in April.

Compare those April photos to the gallery below, and you’ll see how far the tag-team of Power Construction and UJAMAA Construction has come on the CannonDesign facility.

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Northwestern Medicine digs in at 4445 W Irving Park Road

Northwestern Medicine is putting up a four-story building at 4445 W Irving Park.

There’s a very large, very organized hole in the ground at 4445 West Irving Park Road in Irving Park. Soon, a new four-story building for Northwestern Medicine will rise from it, bringing medical offices and lots of parking.

Power Construction is on the build, with an assist from UJAMAA Construction. CannonDesign is the design architect.

You can find a wealth of information at this link from Lukas over at Urbanize Chicago.

Currently, this is Chicago’s northernmost and westernmost tower crane.

Permits were issued for:
overall construction on 12/21/21
the tower crane on 10/28/21
demolition of 4441 W Irving Park on 07/17/20
demolition of 4447 W Irving Park on 07/16/20
demolition of 4457 W Irving Park on 07/16/20

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