Demolition of the Edgewater Medical Center campus could begin this week, allowing developer MCZ Development to maintain its summer target date to redevelop the long-vacant property into apartments. The demolition will commence with a four-story worker housing building at 1619 West Edgewater (shown), according to DNAInfo Chicago.

MCZ Development partner Todd Mullen revealed plans at a community meeting last April to convert Edgewater Medical Center, which has been empty for 15 years, into 141 apartments. Work on redeveloping the main building is supposed to begin this summer, if demolition and cleanup is complete. The 1619 West Edgewater building went through asbestos removal and passed its clean air tests.

An adjacent building at 1621-25 West Edgewater is undergoing asbestos removal and rat extermination and could soon follow. MCZ sold part of the campus to the city last January. That will be redeveloped into a public park. MCZ will set aside 10% of the units it builds for affordable housing, per Chicago's Affordable Requirements ordinance.