United Center Owners Pull $177.3M Permit for 1901 Project Venue

United Center Joint Venture pulled a $177.3 million building permit at 1904 W Adams St on Chicago’s Near West Side, the City of Chicago Building Permits dataset shows. Permit #101084976, issued October 28, 2026, covers a new two-story building with a mezzanine and no basement, for mixed occupancy spanning assembly, business, mercantile and storage uses under Type 1-B construction. The permit’s own work description notes it follows an earlier caissons-only permit, #101074704, on the same site, meaning this is a later construction stage of a project already underway. James McHugh Construction Co. is the general contractor and Carlos S. Salvado is the architect of record. The property identification number is 1718210033, in Ward 27.

Why it matters

1904 W Adams sits immediately west of the United Center, inside the footprint the arena’s owners have been clearing for the 1901 Project, a redevelopment of the surface parking lots around the stadium. United Center Joint Venture is the arena’s actual ownership entity, controlled by the Wirtz and Reinsdorf families rather than a disposable property LLC, so naming it as the developer here reflects who holds the asset. A two-story structure with a mezzanine is an unusual shape to carry a $177 million valuation, pointing to a large-footprint building rather than a residential or office tower.

The numbers

1. Declared construction cost: $177,300,000.
2. Building: 2 stories plus mezzanine, no basement, Type 1-B construction.
3. Occupancy groups on the permit: A-1, A-3, B, M, S-1 and S-2, non-separated.
4. Prior permit on the same parcel: caissons-only, #101074704.
5. PIN: 1718210033. Ward: 27. Community area: 28.

What’s next

Public reporting on the 1901 Project describes a roughly $7 billion, multi-phase plan to redevelop about 55 acres around the United Center, with phase one centered on a music venue and a retail-wrapped parking structure near Damen and Adams, the same corner as this permit. That phase broke ground in mid-2026. Urbanize Chicago reported a foundations-and-superstructure permit for the music hall followed the caissons permit, consistent with this filing, as reported context rather than the primary record. The City permit itself does not name a tenant or operator, and its description stops at “foundation-superstr[ucture],” so the finished use is not yet confirmed in the primary record. The next milestone is whether a full building permit for 1904 W Adams follows with more detail. More Chicago development coverage as this advances.