You Can’t Build That — Park View Flats
July 3, 2024
Our twelfth entry in the You Can’t Build That Here series takes us to a turn of the century small apartment building in Highland Park .
For our twelfth entry in our “You Can’t Build That Here!” series we depart Dover Gables, head north on Negley Ave to Centre Ave, and catch the 71A to the Euclid stop in Highland Park.
We’re looking at 1401 N St Clair, formerly known as the Park View Flats. It’s a four story brick building with 16 two bedroom apartments and beautiful balconies. As its name suggests, this building is right next to Highland Park.
Each entry in our series highlights a currently existing building that would be illegal to build under our broken zoning code. We need to get busy fixing the zoning code to allow great buildings to be built in our most desirable neighborhoods.
A two-bedroom-two-bathroom apartment in the Park View flats is currently listed for rent at $1850 which is slightly less than the median rent reported by rentometer. It’s a bit hard to get a true median rent since rentometer stopped letting you manually select the distance from the address that it analyzes. As you can see below, rents in Aspinwall, East Liberty, Garfield, Morningside, and Shadyside are included in the analysis. Based on the number of lower rent markers from other neighborhoods, the median rent is likely higher than indicated in Highland Park, making this apartment more affordable than most Highland Park 2 bedroom units.
It’s unclear when the Park View Flats were built but they first show up in the 1903-1906 historical maps.
Highland Park was once connected to the rest of the city via . Those days are over, but it is now served by three bus lines. Two of those lines have a stop directly in front of the Park View Flats. The 71A to Oakland and the 71B to Downtown.
