With its proximity to I-94, the Chicago Avenue El stop and six of Chicago’s most bustling neighborhoods, 863 N. Orleans Street has a lot of untapped potential as a development site.

BlitzLake purchased the vacant land in August of 2015, which was zoned for a two-story commercial building, and worked with neighborhood groups, the Alderman, and the City of Chicago to upzone the land to accommodate a six-story mixed use building.