A Private Golf Club, 70 New Condos, and a 494-Unit Tower on the Horizon: Near West Side's Fall Development Slate Keeps Stacking
By Socialhood News · Near West Side ·
Near West Side neighbors, the neighborhood's development pipeline just posted another busy week — and this time the headlines reach beyond the restaurant corridor. Three distinct projects have cleared key milestones or broken into public view in recent days, spanning a boutique private golf and co-working club arriving on one of Fulton Market's most-watched blocks, a freshly approved 26-story condo tower on Sangamon Street, and a 32-story residential tower that just took a major visual step toward its 2027 opening. Taken together, they paint a picture of a neighborhood adding new layers well into autumn.
Start with the most unexpected: The Wayman, a private indoor golf club with co-working space, private event rooms, a clubhouse, and a rooftop restaurant, is coming to a five-story building on the block bounded by Fulton Street, Sangamon Street, and Peoria Street — the same block that housed the former Time Out Market food hall before it closed earlier this year. The building is joining what Chicago YIMBY describes as "the wave of new members-only clubs in the city," becoming The Wayman, a private indoor golf club with co-working space, private event rooms, a clubhouse, and a rooftop restaurant. With the completion of The Fulton across the street — which brought new outposts from Equinox and Gibsons — the block's owner is actively repositioning its remaining buildings to match the corridor's elevated profile. For a stretch of Fulton Market that lost a high-profile anchor when the food hall went dark, The Wayman's arrival signals that demand for activated ground-floor tenants on this block has not slowed — it has just shifted formats.
A block away on Sangamon Street, a different kind of milestone was recorded at the City Council level. City Council approved a revised development at 23 S. Sangamon, with the 26-story tower set to deliver 70 condos. For-sale condominiums are a notably different product type from the rental apartments that have dominated Fulton Market's residential pipeline in recent years — and 70 units at 23 S. Sangamon adds a homeownership option to a corridor that has been heavily weighted toward renters. The Sangamon Street address places these units squarely in the walkable core of Fulton Market, steps from the restaurant row and the transit access that has made the district one of Chicago's most sought-after places to live. No construction start date has been announced following the Council vote, but approval clears the final major regulatory hurdle and puts the project on a direct path toward permitting.
Also moving through the approvals pipeline: City Council approved a mixed-use development at 169 N. Morgan, a five-story building that will deliver 20 units and ground-floor retail. At five stories and 20 units, 169 N. Morgan is a quieter addition than the towers dominating the Fulton Market skyline — but it is precisely the kind of mid-scale infill that fills in the gaps between the neighborhood's landmark projects, adding residents and retail activation to a Morgan Street address that is already one of the most pedestrian-active stretches in the district.
Looking further ahead, the largest residential project currently under construction in Fulton Market is also inching closer to the finish line. Pearl Fulton Market just took a big visual step toward completion: the 32-story shell at 370 N. Morgan has started shedding its construction crane, with crews removing the tower portion as the project shifts from heavy exterior lifts to facade and interior finishing. Developer VISTA Property and general contractor Skender topped out the tower in March; the project is a 539,000-square-foot building that will bring 494 rental units, including 99 income-restricted apartments. The development's official site lists leasing beginning in 2027, with the building anchoring the high-profile corner of Morgan and Kinzie. At 494 units — nearly 100 of them income-restricted — Pearl is one of the more significant affordable housing contributions to arrive in Fulton Market in the current development cycle.
For Near West Side residents, the practical meaning of this week's milestones is cumulative. The Wayman brings a new activation to a block that needed one. The 23 S. Sangamon approval puts 70 for-sale condos into the pipeline. The 169 N. Morgan approval adds 20 more households and street-level retail to Morgan Street. And Pearl's crane coming down means 494 apartments — including 99 affordable units — are on track to open their doors next year. None of these projects exists in isolation; each one is another answer to the same underlying question the neighborhood keeps asking: what does Fulton Market look like when it fully matures? This week's approvals and construction milestones are part of that answer taking shape in real time.
Keep following Socialhood as The Wayman moves toward an opening date, the 23 S. Sangamon condo tower enters permitting, and Pearl Fulton Market begins its final push toward a 2027 leasing launch — and let us know in the comments which of these projects you're most watching.
Sources:
1. https://chicagoyimby.com/2026/05/projects-ongoing-for-entirety-of-fulton-market-block.html
2. https://chicago.urbanize.city/neighborhood/fulton-market
3. https://hoodline.com/2026/05/west-loop-giant-gets-clipped-as-pearl-fulton-market-crane-comes-down/