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Old Posted Aug 15, 2017, 11:52 AM
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Then what is responsible for "slow zones" for CTA trains? I'm just trying to figure out what they do to speed up transit in Chicago, because that needs to happen.
Bad ties or overworn track, usually.

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How much does moving a building like that cost?

I wonder if one could make a viable business of moving rowhouses with great bones to more desirable locations.
Wish they'd move those three townhomes on Dearborn south of Chicago Ave to Dearborn just north of Lawson House. Just plopping them there would be fine, but ideally something like pulling Pearson through to Dearborn as a historic-looking, brick-paved pedestrian alley as wide as the sidewalk currently is so that it's something like a mini-plaza/park like Burton Place in Old Town, then the townhomes south of that. Lawson would lose something like 40 parking spaces, but if that were done in coordination with developing those surface lots they could be replaced with a garage and, developed well, that whole block that is currently a terrible mish-mash could turn into something really special for the area, maybe even a mini-quad for that Loyola Campus with porus borders for pedestrians, an interior mini-quad, underground parking and classrooms and student housing or whatever.
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Old Posted Aug 15, 2017, 12:30 PM
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12 story office building at 210 N Carpenter (Carpenter and Lake) was issued its first building permit yesterday. Say GOODBYE to another vacant lot (https://www.google.com/maps/place/21...!4d-87.6536615)

http://www.210northcarpenter.com/
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Old Posted Aug 15, 2017, 5:35 PM
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12 story office building at 210 N Carpenter (Carpenter and Lake) was issued its first building permit yesterday. Say GOODBYE to another vacant lot (https://www.google.com/maps/place/21...!4d-87.6536615)

http://www.210northcarpenter.com/
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Old Posted Aug 15, 2017, 5:46 PM
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Site Prep appears to be fully underway at Renelle. Walked by yesterday evening and saw that the trees in the plaza were taken out an that scaffolding fully encompassed the site.

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Walked past this site this evening and saw scaffolding up along Wabash. Looks like site prep is about to begin, on top of the parking garage. The website (www.renellechicago.com) states 3- and 4-bedroom condos starting at $1.3 million.



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Old Posted Aug 15, 2017, 10:34 PM
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How much does moving a building like that cost?

I wonder if one could make a viable business of moving rowhouses with great bones to more desirable locations.
This was apparently an extremely common thing in the earlier days of the city. We just finished renovating a 2-flat that was once relocated from a different site a few blocks away, then jacked up to build an additional story underneath. This was probably a lot easier in a time when immigrant labor was dirt cheap, and there were no overhead wires.

Also, hundreds of miles of streets were widened in the city, often by jacking up buildings and shifting them back, or just shaving the fronts off of buildings.
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Old Posted Aug 15, 2017, 10:38 PM
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^incredible. Thanks for that link.
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Thanks Solar. From afar, the structural elements appear to be painted white. Not sure if that's the final product or a coat of primer.



...That leaves with at least 100 options. Cmon Bvic, or else we'll start making guesses, starting with the letter A. Antunafish?
Nope, not him.
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NOPE! Not for the 'tower' at least.
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Old Posted Aug 17, 2017, 2:34 AM
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Hoxton Hotel - 200 N Green

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Old Posted Aug 17, 2017, 11:14 AM
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Sheraton Grand Chicago owner settles with Marriott over Starwood merger

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The owner of the big Sheraton in Streeterville ... controlled by Tishman Realty ... has settled a lawsuit with Marriott International over the hotel giant's 2016 merger with Starwood Hotels. ... In return, Marriott no longer has to abide by a non-compete clause in Starwood's management contract for the hotel ... A Tishman venture sued Starwood in May 2016, alleging that 18 Marriott hotel properties - including ... the soon-to-open Marriott Marquis Hotel at McCormick Place ... would breach the territorial restrictions in that contract.

The non-complete clause precludes Starwood affiliates from owning, franchising, operating or managing a hotel within two miles of the Sheraton Grand Chicago other than specific pre-existing ones; a W hotel within four miles of the Sheraton, and any hotel within 15 miles of the building with 750 guest rooms or more or 35,000 square feet or more of meeting space ...
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The non-compete terms have made it an unusually strong agreement for Tishman that has prevented other hotel developers and investors from using Starwood hotel brands around the city, said Hans Detlefsen, president of Chicago-based hotel consultancy Hotel Appraisers & Advisors. "It has definitely affected hotel development planning over the course of the past couple of decades" ...
I wonder if the non-compete had the upside of pushing developers to flag new hotels under (unaffiliated) boutique brand names.
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Old Posted Aug 17, 2017, 3:18 PM
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1136 S Wabash from the 5th-floor amenity deck of 1250 S Michigan

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Old Posted Aug 18, 2017, 12:08 PM
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^ Nice photo.



Not-Prentice, taken yesterday 8/17
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Old Posted Aug 18, 2017, 5:27 PM
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Daniel Schell is reporting that cassions are being drilled for 808 W. Van Buren. Here's a refresher for the project:


Source: Building Up Chicago
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Old Posted Aug 18, 2017, 5:51 PM
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Brick being dropped off a few minutes ago at 725ish randolph, and no one using it as a parking lot. I would love to believe it is for batting (is that the correct word?)

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Old Posted Aug 18, 2017, 6:03 PM
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Daniel Schell is reporting that cassions are being drilled for 808 W. Van Buren. Here's a refresher for the project:


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Great news!
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Old Posted Aug 18, 2017, 9:10 PM
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There's also talk of a midrise hotel or apartment building next to the old "New Jackson Hotel"


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Old Posted Aug 22, 2017, 7:52 AM
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There's also talk of a midrise hotel or apartment building next to the old "New Jackson Hotel"


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This is a surprisingly good example of adaptive reuse and fine-grain urbanism for Chicago. More, please.
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Old Posted Aug 22, 2017, 7:53 AM
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I would be interested in hearing the views from the Chicago thread's resident experts on this:

https://www.economist.com/news/busin...iciency-eludes
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Old Posted Aug 22, 2017, 9:31 AM
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Yeah, Viceroy turned out amazing. If anyone goes on a tour there take some pictures from the inside. I'd like to see what that tilted glass looks like from inside of a hotel room.
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