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marothisu · #**40561** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 12:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by bnk

Any investigational journalists out there?

http://kval.com/news/local/amazon-sp...ts-from-eugene

Amazon 'Spheres' building in Seattle features roots from Eugene Oregon.

http://www.structure1.com/portfolio/

Klamath Falls
 (541) 850-6300
 (541) 850-6233
 mt2@structure1.com
250-A Main Street
Klamath Falls OR 97601

The website you sent for Precision Structural Engineering is who is on the permit for the dome in Chicago. Is that why you linked to it? I don't think they have anything to do with Amazon..

bnk · #**40562** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 12:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by marothisu

The website you sent for Precision Structural Engineering is who is on the permit for the dome in Chicago. Is that why you linked to it? I don't think they have anything to do with Amazon..

Well the builders of Amazon's Seattle domes are from the same state, different city, that being Eugene Oregon which is not that far from Klamath Falls. I'm sure there is some shared engineering "talent" between the two of them. They are not that close but I could see some of Eugene's draftsman moving down south in the same state.

But this is pure speculation. But two dome builders from the same state one doing Amazons domes and another doing Chicago's seems more than just a chance.

marothisu · #**40563** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 1:02 AM**

^ PSE has a lot of big name clients so I'm not surprised - however it does seem a bit overkill for a dome that is apparently housing an ops center that nobody in the public is going to care about/see ....apparently. I'm pretty sure there's more than just 1 or 2 in Chicago who can design the same thing......they've done domes for CNN, NatGeo, Burning Man, Coachella, etc though.

HomrQT · #**40564** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 2:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by Fvn

Jose E Giron/Hello South Loop! - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...8616377&type=3

What the heck is that?

harryc · #**40565** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 2:24 AM**

Must be a German restaurant - cause they are sure vandalizing my building.

Press conference

Does anyone know who these 2 are ?

Fvn · #**40566** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 2:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by HomrQT

What the heck is that?

It's that stage thing being built on The 78

Kumdogmillionaire · #**40567** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 3:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by UpThere

Nice, concrete. Now do the entire loop like that.

Mods, ban this sinner

marothisu · #**40568** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 3:23 AM**

Are they doing anything with utilities there? I mean if it's an ops center then they've got to have adequate power at least going there right? I'd imagine there would be a permit for that.....??....... (there isn't and there's not one pending that I could find).

marothisu · #**40569** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 3:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by UpThere

They have been working under the stage area.

All the connections for the news cameras obviously

LOL

HomrQT · #**40570** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 4:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by KWillChicago

Some pictures of demo and, I think new, renders of the Belmont flyover via Trib.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...togallery.html

My heart is going to be broken for a long time at Johnny O'Hagan's going away. A lot of really good memories in that place.

aaron38 · #**40571** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 4:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by 10023

Hopefully Amazon has deep enough pockets to buy out Dearborn Park and tear down that abortion of a neighborhood too.

If you look at that image carefully, what you want is for all the land surrounding Dearborn Park to tower above it. Then it can be replaced with a true park, open space surrounded by towers.

Skyguy_7 · #**40572** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 2:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by bnk

Any investigational journalists out there?

http://kval.com/news/local/amazon-sp...ts-from-eugene

Amazon 'Spheres' building in Seattle features roots from Eugene Oregon.

Too coincidental, but like everyone else, I am trying to not get my hopes up.

Although, if this is indeed Amazon-related, there are two options here. Either:
1. Related has pulled out all the stops and commissioned Amazon's own dome designer in order to woo them, or -
2. Amazon is involved in Related's sales pitch to Amazon?

maru2501 · #**40573** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 2:58 PM**

it's for a movie or something?

Busy Bee · #**40574** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 3:38 PM**

^Fuller Fuller House

Take your time...

sentinel · #**40575** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 4:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by Busy Bee

^Fuller Fuller House

Take your time...

Also, you deserve all the applause

Busy Bee · #**40576** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 4:34 PM**

Thanks, I'm here all night. Try the mojito.

Kumdogmillionaire · #**40577** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 5:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by UpThere

A lions meow instead of a roar is good for my property values. And for businesses across the loop.

You know what isn't good for property values? Killing the city's history. I would be disgusted by the city if they removed the tracks. All in the name of another dollar though, huh? There are things more important in life than money...

Baronvonellis · #**40578** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 6:05 PM**

Maybe the dome is for an operations center for the development. But instead of a bland temporary trailer, they decided to make a dome to help woo Amazon with the idea that Amazon will be coming to visit in the next few months, and make a sales pitch and a press event there onsite with the skyline as a backdrop.
For a big corporation this kind of thing just comes out of the marketing budget, it's peanuts to them to help woo a massive whale of a customer.

Amazon could decide to start out in the post Office building as that would be ready to go for them by next year, and then while they are moving in they could also start construction on the related site and build out a larger campus there, a totally blank slate right near downtown. Although new construction would take a couple years. So they could have the speed to move in right away with the flexibility of new construction down the road. Win win.

sentinel · #**40579** Posted **Mar 13, 2018, 8:15 PM**

Maybe it's just one of these:

https://www.archdaily.com/890079/nor...ughest-weather

gebs · #**40580** Posted **Mar 15, 2018, 5:48 PM**

Potentially huge residential development coming to Goose Island:

1,000 apartments for Goose Island? Crain's

"Onni Group is lining up a deal to buy an eight-acre maintenance facility site from bus company Greyhound on the southern tip of Goose Island, according to multiple sources.

The agreement still could fall apart, and a spokesman for Onni and Greyhound's broker declined to comment. But one source familiar with the prospective buyer's vision said Onni is mulling building as many as 1,000 residential units on land known for its long industrial history."