A Chicago developer will try again to win city approval to replace an old garage at the If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Now complex with several hundred new residential units.

Equity Residential wants to replace a 650-unit garage and small one-story building next to it with a 46-story tower housing 482 apartments or condos - its application doesn't say which - and an 842-space underground garage. In 2011, the BRA basically rejected plans for two smaller towers with 500 units.

The new building, designed, of course, by Elkus Manfredi, would would add an extra acre of open space to the parcel.

Equity Residential says it will only build studios and one- and two-bedroom apartments. It said the experience in the neighboring complex was that most three-bedroom units were not actually occupied by families.

Of the parking spaces in the garage, only 150 would be set aside for residents. Equity Residential says it's expecting a lot of residents won't bother to own a car, given the building's proximity to both North Station and the Science Park/West End Green line stop. ZipCar will also have spaces in the garage.

BRA filings.