Development plans that include the rebirth of a historic building are underway in Logan Square, where two summers ago, Pearl Properties had a proposal on the table to build up to 12 stories on top of the Granary structure at 411 N 20th St. Some members of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA) were not into that, and it was back to the drawing board.

From the south

However, LSNA recently approved a preliminary plan for a project at that site for 120 rental-units with underground parking with 147 spots, that would revive the site that was first a grain elevator constructed during the Civil War. In 1924, after an explosion destroyed the original elevator, architects designed and erected the structure as we see it today. The building, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, will…