Alison Victoria is preparing for a brand-new season of her hit HGTV present — and a brand new trailer hints that there is drama forward.
Within the sneak peek of Windy City Rehab, Victoria is getting ready for an additional season of onerous work renovating and constructing additions for Chicago properties.
“Nothing I do is straightforward, however each single one in all them feels prefer it’s a bit of me,” she says in a single clip, referring to the inside design work she does.
The trailer, shared solely with PEOPLE forward of subsequent week’s premiere, reveals her struggling via development setbacks and difficulties with purchasers as she works to rehabilitate tons of historic properties, together with all the pieces from brownstones to bungalows.
“It begins off optimistic — after which it simply will get darkish,” Victoria continues within the trailer, teasing the development and design difficulties to come back this season — which appear to incorporate a flooded house, an anxious shopper and disagreements over who will get design management.
Regardless of the drama, she appears to be like ahead to tons of efficiently redesigned properties in her hometown, and the the trailer reveals a few of the lighthearted moments too — together with singing, taking Christmas images and extra.
“Rising up in Chicago, driving round with my dad, taking a look at all the attractive greystones and brownstones and carriage homes and bungalows — there is no different metropolis prefer it,” she finishes.
The brand new episodes of Windy Metropolis Rehab come only one 12 months after Victoria instructed PEOPLE that she was making an attempt to have a “recent begin,” following her former enterprise companion and co-star Donovan Eckhardt’s exit from the present in 2020 after his alleged mishandling of firm funds in addition to the loss of her father in January 2021.
“For me, it is such a recent begin after going via a lot and feeling … this breath of recent air,” she mentioned in Might 2023, including that she and her former enterprise companion now not communicate.
“They’ll see the model of me that I’ve all the time been, that sadly was fully clouded by the stress and anxiousness of a number of lawsuits and a pandemic and never realizing what was going to occur subsequent,” she continued.
Over the course of his ultimate season on the present, Eckhardt had his general contractor and developer licenses suspended by the town of Chicago over violations.
He and Victoria additionally confronted down stop-work orders and serious legal troubles — together with a lawsuit from the homeowners of a home featured on Windy Metropolis Rehab who attempted to freeze her financial assets amid a grievance claiming defective work on a home they renovated collectively. Eckhardt additionally filed a lawsuit claiming defamation and emotional misery on account of his portrayal as a fraudulent “villain” on the second season of the present.
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Regardless of the controversies, Victoria instructed PEOPLE in 2023 that she was able to get again to work and do the renovation work that she loves.
“After I stroll within the properties, a lot of the historical past has been stripped out. For me, it feels prefer it’s my job to place it again in,” she mentioned on the time. “And so it is like taking these actually historic items from wherever I discover them, respiratory new life into them after which in flip respiratory new life into the areas and creating a brand new historical past for the items.”
“I like having the ability to present individuals find out how to push via and persevere and to simply be affected person, which is one thing I’ve discovered,” she added. “I wasn’t essentially the most affected person particular person on the planet. I spotted via all the pieces I went via that I can solely give attention to the issues I can management.”
The brand new season of Windy Metropolis Rehab premieres Tuesday, Sept. 24, on HGTV at 8 p.m. ET/PT.