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spyguy · #**16301** Posted **Aug 8, 2012, 3:34 PM**

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/artic...pital-projects

Advocate proposes pair of hospital projects
By Kristen Schorsch August 07, 2012

Advocate Health Care is moving ahead with a pair of hospital projects totaling $455 million in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood and in south suburban Oak Lawn, as the giant hospital network looks to tap record-low interest rates.

...Meanwhile, on the North Side, the nonprofit health care system with $4.4 billion in revenue is planning a three-story Center for Advanced Care at Illinois Masonic Medical Center, 836 W. Wellington Ave. The roughly 140,000-square-foot building would treat outpatients with digestive diseases and cancer, among other illnesses.

k1052 · #**16302** Posted **Aug 8, 2012, 4:29 PM**

Finally that damn surface parking lot between Barry and Nelson is going away.

MayorOfChicago · #**16303** Posted **Aug 8, 2012, 4:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by k1052

Finally that damn surface parking lot between Barry and Nelson is going away.

I haaaate that lot every time I go by on the Brown Line.

BWChicago · #**16304** Posted **Aug 8, 2012, 6:13 PM**

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Sorry, I haven't been around here that long, but I found this tiny picture without it and assumed it was fairly new.

Did someone doctor that photo then? Is it even a photo? It's too small to tell, but it made me assume that there was a period when the sign didn't exist.

Yeah, I assumed that was photoshopped: http://www.nbportal.com/img/imgtrhotels/132396.jpg

Here's a closeup from 2002: http://chicagouncommon.com/photography/gallery/214/

Buckman821 · #**16305** Posted **Aug 9, 2012, 1:30 AM**

This is kind of a shot in the dark but does anyone know what is going on on the very large lot bounded by Chicago Ave, Spaulding Ave, Christiana Ave and the Metra tracks?

The site has been totally cleared in the last year and there is now a lot of digging going on.

This sort of straddles the Garfield Park and Humboldt park areas. Hopefully it's not another strip mall.

EDIT: Did a little extra research and it appears that the Salvation Army acquired the site in January so I doubt this will be anything worth celebrating.

the urban politician · #**16306** Posted **Aug 9, 2012, 3:07 AM**

^ I think it's worth celebrating.

Last I checked, the Salvation Army doesn't build strip malls

ardecila · #**16307** Posted **Aug 9, 2012, 3:44 AM**

Salvation Army (skyline's misleading)

source

Buckman821 · #**16308** Posted **Aug 9, 2012, 3:55 AM**

^ wow nice find. Skyscraperpage continues to amaze, I never thought that would work.

TUP I guess you were right, this is indeed cause for celebration and will be great for the area. Looks to be some sort of office facility.

My only complaint would be that the parking seems to front Chicago ave, which makes no sense since the back of the lot runs into a train embankment. O well, beggars can't be choosers and this area is definitely begging.

Mikemak27 · #**16309** Posted **Aug 9, 2012, 11:11 AM**

New plans for Roosevelt Square: 2 apartment buildings totaling 120 units proposed at 1255 and 1355 West Roosevelt by Related Midwest. TIF money is involved since 80% is market rate and 20% CHA public housing.

https://www.chicagojournal.com/News/...osevelt_Square

OrdoSeclorum · #**16310** Posted **Aug 9, 2012, 2:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Buckman821

This is kind of a shot in the dark but does anyone know what is going on on the very large lot bounded by Chicago Ave, Spaulding Ave, Christiana Ave and the Metra tracks?

Oh, man. Just last year there was an old soap factory there that was being used as a giant scrap-yard/rummage sale. You wouldn't believe the stuff that was in there. Old motor homes, giant piles of old business phones, ancient PCs, drum after drum of 10-year old soap and hand lotion.

It went on acre after dystopian indoor acre. It had a bunch of glass arcade-style ceilings that were badly damaged in that huge hailstorm. It basically totaled the building.

woodrow · #**16311** Posted **Aug 9, 2012, 2:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Buckman821

^ wow nice find. Skyscraperpage continues to amaze, I never thought that would work.

TUP I guess you were right, this is indeed cause for celebration and will be great for the area. Looks to be some sort of office facility.

My only complaint would be that the parking seems to front Chicago ave, which makes no sense since the back of the lot runs into a train embankment. O well, beggars can't be choosers and this area is definitely begging.

uggh. Salvation f*cking Army. Good luck with that. Look at the shit show they have created in Lakeview. Amongst the many autrocities the a**holes are responsible for, there is a block long parking lot fronting Halsted and they very recently built an abomination fronting Addison. They do NOTHING to engage the street.

ardecila · #**16312** Posted **Aug 9, 2012, 9:42 PM**

On the plus side, Salvation Army's current facility at Ashland/Monroe will become available. It's a beautiful Georgian building with solid bones and a great urban feel to it. I really hope it can be renovated into apartments or offices.

Ch.G, Ch.G · #**16313** Posted **Aug 10, 2012, 12:05 AM**

At one point, Salvation Army was poised to build something truly great:

ChicagoChicago · #**16314** Posted **Aug 10, 2012, 5:14 PM**

Does anyone know what is going on with the Ambers Hotel in Lakeview? I used to live around the corner and it was always a source of drugs and prostitution. I've heard that it closed and will be renovated into condos.

MayorOfChicago · #**16315** Posted **Aug 10, 2012, 5:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by ChicagoChicago

Does anyone know what is going on with the Ambers Hotel in Lakeview? I used to live around the corner and it was always a source of drugs and prostitution. I've heard that it closed and will be renovated into condos.

I see they shut down the Sheffield Hotel or whatever it was called on Sheffield a little north of Wrigley. Looks like they're rehabbing it. I always liked the building.

Now if we can only shut down the Hotel Chateau

pyropius · #**16316** Posted **Aug 10, 2012, 7:19 PM**

^ Hopefully the Bradley/Halsted project will push up property values and help displace the Hotel Chateau.

J_M_Tungsten · #**16317** Posted **Aug 10, 2012, 8:59 PM**

It looks like something is going into the old, old town brasserie just south of 1225 wells project. Any ideas?

Mr Downtown · #**16318** Posted **Aug 10, 2012, 9:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by ardecila

Salvation Army's current facility at Ashland/Monroe will become available. It's a beautiful Georgian building with solid bones and a great urban feel to it. I really hope it can be renovated into apartments or offices.

Unfortunately, I don't know how realistic that is. It's a sprawling complex, only four to six stories, with widely spaced modest windows. I'm having a little trouble visualizing how apartments would lay out in floorplates so long and narrow. Except for seniors housing, I don't see anyone getting more excited by the existing building than they do by that amount of vacant land.

At least it will be out of Fioretti's ward before he can turn it into a park.

ardecila · #**16319** Posted **Aug 10, 2012, 11:14 PM**

We're not talking about some landmark-grade level of preservation. I could imagine a single-loaded corridor running along the street-facing facades, with apartments looking out into interior greenspaces.

The openings on the interior walls can be enlarged; they're just basic common brick. It worked at Fulton House.

I do agree that it's a very idiosyncratic building to re-use with its serpentine shape and all the little annexes and dependencies at the base.

i_am_hydrogen · #**16320** Posted **Aug 11, 2012, 1:18 AM**