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harryc · #**42288** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 10:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by bnk

JHC

I can't even imagine how expensive it would be to re retro fit that old hospital.

...snip...

Only the front remains - pretty much a facadectomy.

Having run cable in NMH's Wesley and Passavant I can attest that old hospitals don't upgrade gracefully.

2011

2014

sentinel · #**42289** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 2:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by spyguy

Other good preservation news - some renderings of what the old Cook County Hospital will look like when complete

Looks wonderful!! Thanks spyguy - any chance you have larger versions of these images?

Jim in Chicago · #**42290** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 3:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by TimeAgain

Huge news for the south side. The Shulze baking factory has finally been acquired by CIM, who have stated that they will start construction in the next 60 days to convert it into a data center. Something that's been planned for 13 years. With the garfield station nearby getting rehabbed, and new developments by UofC two blocks east, this is continued business for this site.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/reale...e-baking-plant

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Originally Posted by Busy Bee

Excellent news

I'm glad it will finally be rehabbed, but really, data centers are a suck for any neighborhood. They employ very few people and create zero pedestrian traffic. They sit there just blank and empty space. They also have a million cooling units and create tons of noise pollution. I live across from one. The noise is unbearable 24x7x365 and the city will do nothing despite many attempts by frustrated neighbors.

Via Chicago · #**42291** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 3:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by SolarWind

nice infill

honestly, i like these faux warehouses a lot. preferable to the cheap Mies wanna-be boxes IMO

Notyrview · #**42292** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 4:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by spyguy

Other good preservation news - some renderings of what the old Cook County Hospital will look like when complete

Whoa it's like Versailles

LouisVanDerWright · #**42293** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 4:55 PM**

You heard it here first, IMD is the new Versailles!

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

Belmont is the beast on the north side, as far as urban commercial corridors. I mean, it’s wall to wall for miles, and keeps getting better.

I don’t think there is another street outside of downtown that quite compares to it. Does it have a bus that gets high ridership? If so, it would be worth considering to add to Rahm’s proposed list of bus routes that get TOD zoning

Belmont canyon has jumped the river in earnest now with multiple new six-12 unit buildings going up in East Avondale (between River and Kennedy) and one under construction West of Kimball with a few more approved or in the pipeline West of the Freeway.

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

^ Even thought it's gonna be a data center, it's a beautiful building and I'm so glad they are renovating it.

If they are spending $150 million on the south side to restore this just to be a data center, then I'm all the more optimistic for the Uptown Theatre's prospects...

Data centers almost always make money and historic theaters usually do not.

Kenmore · #**42294** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 5:05 PM**

yeah looks sick

k1052 · #**42295** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 5:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by Via Chicago

nice infill

honestly, i like these faux warehouses a lot. preferable to the cheap Mies wanna-be boxes IMO

Generally I agree even if there are some head scratchers on a few buildings. The design guidelines mostly doing a good job. 811 Fulton looks to pretty much adhere to the historic district design requirements even though it's outside the boundary.

F1 Tommy · #**42296** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 6:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by spyguy

Other good preservation news - some renderings of what the old Cook County Hospital will look like when complete

Really nice. Getting this building in that condition again will be very important for the city and will become a tourist destination.

Busy Bee · #**42297** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 6:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by spyguy

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A little taste of what Burnham envisioned for much of the city.

Near North Resident · #**42298** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 6:50 PM**

looks to me in the rendering like they are stripping all the ornate details off the façade of the CCH and will be replacing all that limestone with ugly yellow precast panels... blech

Via Chicago · #**42299** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 7:17 PM**

i sure hope youre wrong about that. what reason would they even have to do so? the limestones already there. plus if theyre getting historical preservation tax credits, i assume there are limits to what they can do?

Notyrview · #**42300** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 7:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Near North Resident

looks to me in the rendering like they are stripping all the ornate details off the façade of the CCH and will be replacing all that limestone with ugly yellow precast panels... blech

Nah i think that's just the restored limestone. I agree the yellow in the rendering is unsettling, but that's not how real limestone looks in person.