CHICAGO | Optima Phase II | 588 FT | 57 FLOORS - Page 22

chrisvfr800i · #**421** Posted **Feb 13, 2017, 2:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hayward

^ the first photo by harry shows an exposed section with a taller floor. That looks to be the top level.

The high floor is level 52. There are a few floors above that.

LouisVanDerWright · #**422** Posted **Feb 13, 2017, 7:44 PM**

I counted 2 or 3 floors left today while I was waiting for someone in cityfront plaza. This one is becoming quite visible from the Kennedy coming in. If there's really another 5 floors, you'll see it poking above just about all other buildings in that section of the skyline.

BVictor1 · #**423** Posted **Feb 17, 2017, 7:46 AM**

Two floors to go until topping off.

danielschell · #**424** Posted **Feb 17, 2017, 2:03 PM**

I appreciate them numbering the floors. So much easier to count that way

LouisVanDerWright · #**425** Posted **Feb 17, 2017, 4:52 PM**

Geeze, so they are only working on 52 right now, 5 more floors plus mechanical penthouse is going to make this thourouhgly visible from the NW. Will be a nice little emerald sitting atop the beige forest of river north.

teohwp85 · #**426** Posted **Feb 19, 2017, 1:47 PM**

February 18, 2017

SolarWind · #**427** Posted **Feb 20, 2017, 3:47 AM**

February 15, 2017

SolarWind · #**428** Posted **Feb 26, 2017, 8:15 AM**

February 22, 2017

BVictor1 · #**429** Posted **Feb 26, 2017, 5:07 PM**

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/reale...y-daughter-son

February 23, 2017
Architect, developer David Hovey hands the reins to his kids

By DENNIS RODKIN

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David Hovey, a rare triple-threat architect, developer and builder who's behind thousands of residential units in Chicago and the suburbs, is passing the torch to two of his kids after 40 years in the business.

"I'm stepping aside, but I'm not stepping out of the company," said Hovey, the 72-year-old CEO of Optima, the Glencoe-based firm he and wife Eileen launched in 1977 with a six-unit townhouse project in Hyde Park. He was the architect, developer and builder; she handled sales. In the decades since, they've built nearly 3,400 condos, apartments and townhouses in Evanston, Wilmette, Oak Park and other suburbs, as well as in Streeterville, plus another 2,500 units in Arizona.

The couple's daughter Tara is taking the title of chief operating officer and will run the privately held company. Their son, also an architect and also named David, is president of Optima Holdings and will collaborate with his father on architectural design work.

"This is a process that we started talking about in 2012," said Tara Hovey, 34. She has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has worked in several roles at her parents' firm, as well as in the real estate finance industry in New York. She will take the reins of the firm's projects, including the 56-story rental tower at 220 E. Illinois St. that is nearly complete, and a pair of buildings—one condos, the other apartments—under construction in Phoenix.

harryc · #**430** Posted **Feb 28, 2017, 7:33 PM**

Feb 21

Feb22

pilsenarch · #**431** Posted **Mar 1, 2017, 2:21 PM**

^The 'artist' responsible for all of these creepy huge statues that have littered this plaza over the years needs to be shot...

J_M_Tungsten · #**432** Posted **Mar 1, 2017, 2:38 PM**

Not sure I ever understood the oversized historical statues they put here, but tourists seem to enjoy them. Lots of old men under the skirt of Marilyn Monroe pictures floated around when that was there.

Notyrview · #**433** Posted **Mar 1, 2017, 11:05 PM**

^^ honestly why can't the city hire a real art director from SAIC?

wrab · #**434** Posted **Mar 2, 2017, 4:17 AM**

^ The sculptor is Seward Johnson, Grandson of Johnson & Johnson founder Robert Wood Johnson

Ned.B · #**435** Posted **Mar 2, 2017, 2:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by Notyrview

^^ honestly why can't the city hire a real art director from SAIC?

I don't think it's the city that has been sponsoring these sculptures. Pretty sure it's Zeller Realty who owns 401 N. Michigan and the part of the plaza where they have sat.