New Homes, New Neighbors: McKinley Park Lands $4.4M 'Missing Middle' Housing Investment
By Socialhood News · Il/Chicago/Mckinley Park ·
McKinley Park is getting a major boost to its housing stock — and it could reshape the neighborhood's residential landscape for years to come. Earlier this year, the City of Chicago selected McKinley Park as one of the target neighborhoods for its next phase of the Missing Middle infill housing initiative. A $4.4 million project led by Urbanism LLC will bring five new two-flats to the 2400 block of West 34th Place, adding owner-occupied, multi-unit housing to a stretch of the Southwest Side that's hungry for exactly this kind of neighborhood-scaled investment.
The McKinley Park project is part of a larger $35.5 million wave of infill development planned across three Chicago neighborhoods, with 35 multi-unit buildings and 99 total housing units in the pipeline. The homes are designed to be sold to owner-occupants earning up to 140% of the area median income — making them accessible to the working families that have long been the backbone of McKinley Park's community. New two-flats replacing vacant City lots on 34th Place means more neighbors, more density done right, and a healthier, more resilient block.
This housing win layers on top of everything else already in motion on the Southwest Side — from the $2.5M commercial corridor investment on 35th Street to the Quartermaster Depot rehab — cementing McKinley Park's reputation as one of Chicago's most exciting neighborhoods to watch. Want to stay informed as these projects break ground? Follow the developments and weigh in at mckinleypark.news.
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1. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dcd/provdrs/ec_dev/news/2026/february/new-missing-middle-residential-projects-selected-garfield-park-mckinley-park.html