Midwest Highrise Construction
 

here's a roundup of all the 300+ ft. projects under construction and proposed in midwest cities (excluding chicago).

please correct any errors or omissions.



Midwest 300+' Highrise Projects:


Under Construction:

MILWAUKEE | NML Tower | 550 ft. | 35 floors

http://media.bizj.us/view/img/107946...lrendering.jpg




MILWAUKEE | 777 N Van Buren | 387 ft. | 34 floors

https://www.northwesternmutual.com/~...450.ashx?la=en




MINNEAPOLIS | 365 Nicollet | 334 ft. | 32 floors

http://2w5swnzapmf232d0u3vwgc1u.wpen...3388-754-0.jpg















Site Prep/Demo:


MILWAUKEE | The Couture | 537 ft. | 44 floors

https://s17.postimg.org/h2hqg3o0f/Cy...SUQAAsel_T.jpg














Proposed:

DETROIT | Hudsons block | 734 ft. | 52 floors

http://imgur.com/JwJ6kxth.jpg



CLEVELAND | nuCLEus | 647 ft. | 54 floors

http://image.cleveland.com/home/clev...07c6c5a88a.jpg




MINNEAPOLIS | The Gateway | 530 ft. | 35 floors

http://i.imgur.com/SLFwFJg.jpg




MINNEAPOLIS | 200 Central | 483 ft. | 41 floors

http://i.imgur.com/gVhwPSF.jpg




GRAND RAPIDS | 10 Ionia | 418 ft. | 40 floors

http://image.mlive.com/home/mlive-me...ad5bbadd14.JPG




ST. LOUIS | One Hundred | 385 ft. | 36 floors

https://c3.staticflickr.com/1/170/30...eec95b84_b.jpg




CLAYTON | Centene Tower II | 380 ft. | 28 floors

https://nextstl.com/wp-content/uploa...1314008514.png




CLEVELAND | Weston Tower A | 360 ft. | 30+ floors

http://image.cleveland.com/home/clev...cb5065c47d.jpg




CLEVELAND | 515 Euclid | 338 ft. | 28 floors

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us..._Beacon_01.jpg




MILWAUKEE | BMO Harris Financial Center | 335 ft. | 25 floors

http://i.imgur.com/3CmG0o9h.jpg




DES MOINES | 701 Walnut | ~330 ft. | 33 floors

http://www.urbandsm.com/images/proje...ackbird_26.jpg




ST. LOUIS | BPV2 | 320 ft. | 29 floors

https://nextstl.com/wp-content/uploads/BPV-II_4.jpg




DES MOINES | The Fifth | ~320 ft. | 32 floors

http://www.urbandsm.com/images/proje...th_walnutb.jpg




MINNEAPOLIS | 333 E Hennepin l | 318 ft. | 28 floors

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5805/...44f361e8_b.jpg
333Henn by grant.simons, on Flickr

Boy, before long... we're going to have to exclude the twin cities from this list as well. :D

I suppose to add on, Dayton has a CareSource Tower (which site preparation is u/c as we speak) and is well over 300 feet as well. No rendering but...

The building would rank as the fifth largest office tower in downtown Dayton, larger than Fifth Third Center, which has 295,000 square feet of leasable space. The Kettering Tower is the largest tower at 441,000 square feet. Construction on the proposed building is scheduled to begin in January 2007 and completed by October 2008.

FYI, the Fifth Third Tower is 328 feet, I believe, and the lot sized of the CareSource Tower is smaller, thus it'll be taller.


Columbus has a Hyatt Regency expansion (which is pushing 300 feet, if not over) on the drawing boards as well.

And of course, Covington has the Nike Swoosh...err...Ascent @ Roebling (which is well over 300 feet) and Newport has fourish 300+ footers proposed (Overture, SouthShore Condos, etc).

When I get exact heights, I'll tell ya.

Nothing in the Bottle District under construction.

really? the SSP database lists the first one as being "under construction". so, the database is incorrect?

I have no idea why Emporis has Ascent @ Roebling listed at 293, as it has been said it will be the tallest building in Covington (as Covington's tallest is currently 308 feet).

Thanks for making this!

More from Minnneapolis

Approved:

Pillsbury A Mill Building E
27 stories | 324 ft

Proposed:

Loring Park/Eitel Building
38 stories | 432 ft

Pacific Flats Condominiums
28 stories | 305 ft

Edit:
I wasn't sure if 30 stories was the limit even if it's supposed to be 300+ feet.
Looks like you've already got the Loring one as well. So this was probably a useless post haha.

I will throw out a few changes/ additions to the St. Louis list.

1st, none of the Bottle District is under construction. It's future is up in the air, with Ghazi out and no clear direction. The images shown last year of future towers will likely not happen.

2nd. The Rennaisance on Euclid has been cut way back, to like a 8-10 story building I belive, so it should be removed from the list.

3rd. No new info on the MW Tower. Maybe with the Ballpark Village financing for phase 1 done, maybe we will hear some new info on it.

4th. The Lindell Condominuims Tower should be included, as its height is expected to reach 28 stories and progress has been made on the applicaiton.

5th. The Ballpark Village is moving forward, with an announcement today that funding has been finalized for phase 1, which will inlcude a 22-25 story Condo tower in phase 1. If the market demands it, phases 2 and 3 will include two more towers, both of which are belived to be taller than the phase 1 tower.

so, with the project all up in the air with no clear future, should all of the "proposed" bottle district towers be removed for now? i'm incline dto think so.





it will be included if it's height is determined to be over 300', otherwise, i'm only inlcuding buildings 30 stories or taller if the heiight figure is unknown.

^ Fair enough. We should hopfuly know more in the near future about the Lindell Condos.

As for the Bottle District, I think it is a contentious topic amoung St. Louis forumers. I fall on the side of those who think the project is dead in the water, at least in the forum proposed in the past year (condo towers). The ower of the site fired Ghazi and is now in talks with HRI and some other developers, as per a recent STL Biz Journal story. The site has been cleared, but there has been no other progress. There have been updates that the nessisary aldermatic legislation is being passed, but no other info. So no one know what is going on, only that the folks who produced the past renderings, including Ghazi and Forum Studios are out and some new folks are in, which means new renderings of what might happen are likely. I say it should be gone, but I am sure there are many others who would disagree.

Great idea for a thread!

Just to contribute a bit of information:

Grand Rapids River House (the tower on the left)
http://www.gftforex.com/temp/joestuf...-house-pic.jpg

Grand Rapids' JW Marriott - as of September 04, 2006. River House will rise on the far left right next to Bridgewater Place.
http://downtownmotown.8k.com/North/2...-04_060046.jpg

http://downtownmotown.8k.com/North/2...-04_060015.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...romBridge2.jpg

There's a few cranes on site at the Greektown Casino, Detroit drilling the foundation, but it still doesn't look much different than this photo:
http://downtownmotown.8k.com/Detroit..._16_060025.jpg
Sept. 16, 2006

http://downtownmotown.8k.com/Detroit..._29_060043.jpg
Sept. 29, 2006

Greektown Hotel
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...nrendering.jpg

that to me sounds like it's a no-go for now, at least in the previously envisioned plan, so i'm taking the bottle district towers off the list. if something else pops up there with skyscrapers, that would be great, and i'll add those towers if and when they become known.


thanks to everyone else for the images. keep 'em coming, i'd like to get an image for every single project on the list. cincy, indy, st. paul and omaha, i'm looking at you.

Carlyle rendering:

http://www.minnescraper.com/content/..._rendering.jpg

Carlyle recent construction shot:

http://www.minnescraper.com/content/...g_3187_190.jpg

From http://www.minnescraper.com/

^ thanks for the better carlyle rendering navin.

Colday, what about the Eden Park Tower, how many feet is that?

http://www.theoverlookatedenpark.com...rlook-lake.jpg

South Shore Condos:
http://k53.pbase.com/o4/73/280873/1/...horeCondos.jpg

The Ascent:
http://k53.pbase.com/o4/73/280873/1/...kindAscent.jpg

Queen City Square Phase I & II:
http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/cmgr/im...gr_img9220.jpg

the 401 Residences was revised to this:

http://www.colinkulow.com/twincityscape/401hotel.jpg

but it's on hold now until the market catches up, so it's not clear if it will even get built.

Here's Omaha's forthcoming 373 foot residential tower... second from left...

http://204.26.90.252/gallery/develop/163/pic2.jpg

I'm pretty sure that the Ascent @ Roebling and the tallest of the South Shore condos are over 300 feet.

Is south shore going on the Kentucky side, or the Ohio side of the border?

South Shore.

This is an awesome thread.

Another Carlyle update construction photo. Taken 10/27/2006.
http://static.flickr.com/106/280890153_95a221751b.jpg

One Market Square's status is still in the air, due to poor sale (for a variety of reasons), they've been given until Thanksgiving to come up with a new or revized plan.

There's another proposal for Indianapolis, the InterContinental Hotel. It's 44 stories and is expected to be the city's second tallest (so it's over 530 ft.).

A few renderings from IndyBob over at SSC

http://www.oongawa.com/dt/ic3.jpg

http://www.oongawa.com/dt/ic4.jpg

http://www.oongawa.com/dt/ic1.jpg

http://www.oongawa.com/dt/ic2.jpg

I'll try to dig up the day time rendering, it's around here somewhere.

This is an incredibly good idea for a thread, Steely.

Just curious, though--why are you using 300 ft as a cutoff here as opposed to the 12 story cutoff you're using in the Chicago superthread? Also, I noticed you put an Evanston highrise on the list. Does that mean we should include Chicago suburban highrises here as well?

KC's biggest projects are all under 300 feet.

Nothing proposed for Cleveland?

because i had to make a cut-off somewhere and i didn't feel like keeping track of every 15 story marriott suites proposal in suburban bumblefuck midwest. 300' is incredibly arbitrary, but it's a height that i feel seperates skyscrapers from mere highrises in most midwest cities and i'm really only interested in seeing what the tallest projects in the region are.




i included the evanston proposal because evanston doesn't get enough credit for itself being so completely hidden under the chicago shadow. if there were any other suburban chicago proposals that were 300+'/30+ floors, i would have included them as well, but currently no such projects exist.

Wow Minneapolis has some great proposals

The only thing that is really vertical proposed for downtown Cleveland is 515 Euclid Avenue. Which at 26 stories would be in the 300+ ft range.

http://www.desman.com/hotproperty/ta...59/Itemid,168/

Most everything else is clusters of residential or mixed use collections of buildings being built in phases one at a time in the 5-15 story range.

Pretty cool to see Milwaukee has the second tallest buliding under construction in the Midwest, right now.

I hadn't until now seen renderings of the Greektown;
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...nrendering.jpg
But the first thing to pop in my mind was this:it reminds me of a waterd down version of the Ruvin proposal for Milwaukee, even though Greektown's design likely came first.
http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphic...1798_large.jpg
http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphic...1792_large.jpg

A few notes on buildings listed.

In Minneapolis:

The Carlyle is 469 ft/41 floors. This information comes directly from blueprints, and is revised down from 473 as originally published.

Two Twenty Two is 375 ft. This comes from the documentation submitted to the Minneapolis Planning Commission, which was approved. That rendering is the version that was approved, by Durrant Architects. They've since changed architects, but no rendering has been released

Eitel Hospital should be renamed. That elevation drawing is of the residential tower approved for 1368 LaSalle Avenue. The adjacent block contains the old hospital and is being renovated into apartments by the same developer.

In St. Paul:

The Penfield is 33 floors.

The Westin St. Paul is estimated around 364 ft. This comes from the Urban Areawide Review Mitigation Plan submitted in December 2004 to the State of Minnesota and City of St. Paul, and approved by the FAA (the site is moderately close to Holman Field, St. Paul's downtown airport, but not under a runway).


In Covington:

The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge in Covington is 293 ft. This comes from the project superintendent at Danis Building Company, the GC.

Damn, Indy is getting some nice towers. So is Minneapolis.

The Lindell aka Lindell Condominiums will be 310'. It will be 26 floors above grade and 2 below. $93 million in cost. I have all the info on it that you could ever possibly want from a meeting last year between opponents and the alderwoman for the area. Some NIMBY's from the surrounding streets tryed to get it cancelled, but lost. I got a front row seat during an internship with the alderwoman for the area.

http://upload.pbase.com/citylover/im...3960/large.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/citylover/image/58726520.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/citylover/image/58726985.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/citylover/image/58726987.jpg

OMG, OMG, OMG! :hyper: It's the Cafe Wall illusion!! On a highrise!!! I'm so excited!!!! :ahhh: :hyper: :rock: :leek: :eeekk:


[/optical illusion nerdity]

^ Has that started contruction yet? In my past several visits to STL I always saw signs for that but wondered when it would start.

That's a great development for the CWE

^From what I understand, they are working on final details. The variance for the historic district has been granted, and that was the biggest hurdle. They seem to be wrapping up loose ends at this point. The schedule they released when these renderings came out had them wanting to start work in March or April 2007. I think this may get pushed back a couple of months because Opus has said that they want to start the Park East lofts project next to the Park East tower before they start The Lindell. The Park East Lofts are going to start construction once the staging area for the tower is cleaned up, because it is being built on this lot. The tower is nearly finished, and the some people are now moving in.

While I'm guessing that large highrise announcements are fairly infrequent in the greater midwest, this thread has the potential to be pretty significant, and I'd hate to see it have to get bumped all the time (esp since people may not know about its existence). This is skyscraperpage after all. Any thoughts about getting it stickied?

^ i suppose i could sticky it if enough people felt that such a move is warranted. who agrees? disagrees?

^is this a strict u/c thread or are we going to post every tom dick and jane proposed/approved 300-footer?

^ Well, there's already a 'proposed' section on page one, if that answers your question

the latter. as urb said, see the first post on page 1.

You have any other info on the Hyatt expansion to share? I had not even heard of this.

Here's a rendering of the Westin St. Paul that Steely asked for. It's obviously the taller tower on the right. It's part of the massive Bridges of St. Paul project.

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/6...tpaul02vv1.jpg

Here's another of the Westin.

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/2...tpaul03xj7.jpg

There is a Four Seasons hotel currently under construction on the St. Louis riverfront and I understand that it's going to be over 300 ft.

There is a thread about it at UrbanOhio's P&C forum. It along with two other condo towers currently u/c (though I don't know their heights, they are atleast pushing 300).

^ Any renderings?

The renderings are below. It will be 25 floors, so it could be tall enough. I can't find an actual height.

http://www.boomtownneworleans.com/im...nderingDay.jpg
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/6...mecityl0vq.jpg