{"id":332,"date":"2015-02-19T18:55:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T18:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartgroupbuilders.com\/news\/?p=332"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:40:38","slug":"smart-builders-tear-downs-are-rising-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartgroupbuilders.com\/news\/smart-builders-tear-downs-are-rising-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"SMART Builders &#8211; Tear-downs Are Rising In Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-339\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/house_teardown_2.jpg\" alt=\"house_teardown_2\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>Less than a decade ago, no house seemed safe from the tear-down wave that flattened sweet but small homes in favor of &#8220;McMansions&#8221; throughout the affluent northern and western suburbs. The real estate bust stopped that trend cold, but as pocketbooks have recovered, so, too, has the march for big new houses.<\/p>\n<p>Wilmette, for example, saw 48 tear-downs last year. That\u2019s way up from the 15 to 20 the North Shore town experienced annually from 2009 to 2011. \u201cWe\u2019re almost back to the old average of 50 a year,\u201d says John Adler, Wilmette\u2019s community development director. \u201cAnd the resurgence is attributable to developers getting involved again on the speculative side\u2014not just people of means building their dream homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See the full article here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagomag.com\/Chicago-Magazine\/February-2015\/Teardowns-Are-Rising-in-Chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chicagomag.com\/Chicago-Magazine\/February-2015\/Teardowns-Are-Rising-in-Chicago\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a decade ago, no house seemed safe from the tear-down wave that flattened sweet but small homes in favor of &#8220;McMansions&#8221; throughout the affluent northern and western suburbs. 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