Illinois

BELLEVILLE, Ill. — The Southwestern Illinois Development Authority (SWIDA) and Bywater Development Group have completed construction of Lofts on the Square, an affordable housing community in Belleville, a suburb of St. Louis. The $14.2 million project was a historic rehabilitation of a 90-year-old building downtown Belleville’s public square. The property’s 47 units were fully preleased before the opening. The asset also features more than 3,000 feet of street-level commercial space that remains available for lease by retailers and restaurants. The six-story building opened in 1931 as the Hotel Belleville. It …

BELLWOOD, Ill. — Evergreen Real Estate Group has broken ground on Bellwood Senior Apartments, an 80-unit affordable rental community in the western Chicago suburb of Bellwood. The $30 million project will replace a former Walgreens with a four-story, 73,228-square-foot residential building. Professionally operated by Evergreen’s in-house management team, Bellwood Senior Apartments will offer 76 one-bedroom and four two-bedroom independent living apartments for seniors age 62 or older, with incomes at or below 60 percent of the area median income. Evergreen will begin accepting applications for the apartments in spring 2023, …

EVANSTON, Ill. — Evergreen Real Estate Group and the Council for Jewish Elderly (doing business as CJE SeniorLife) have opened Ann Rainey Apartments, a 60-unit affordable seniors housing community in Evanston, a northern suburb of Chicago. The $25 million project is next to the existing CJE SeniorLife Adult Day Services center, which provides programming and socialization opportunities for seniors who require supervision during the day. The new residential community is named for Ann Rainey, who served as alderman of Evanston’s 8th Ward for more than three decades and is credited …