CHICAGO | General Developments

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

The old triangular building on Ogden just south of 290 by cook county hospital is being demolished, bummer...

Equally bad, the demo crews are just getting warmed up before tearing into the Fantus Clinic across Harrison. A real nice, early modernist building with lots of limestone and some neat streamline canopies.

The whole IMD is filled with unappreciated modernist (and postmodernist) gems, really.

[harryc]

Originally Posted by wchicity

What project is this?

Not sure - I have it listed as 230 N May. the shot is from the Green Line.

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by ardecila

Equally bad, the demo crews are just getting warmed up before tearing into the Fantus Clinic across Harrison. A real nice, early modernist building with lots of limestone and some neat streamline canopies.

The whole IMD is filled with unappreciated modernist (and postmodernist) gems, really.

That’s what happens when you give too much land to Healthcare administrators.

[sentinel]

The Fantus Clinic became unusable, and repairs/renovations were cost-prohibitive, considering CCHHS could not keep up with the deferred maintenance needed on the building. The individual clinics within have already moved into renovated spaces at Cook County hospital, in addition to services that will be moved into the new state of the art outpatient building when it is completed in about another year.

[sentinel]

If the IMD wants to compete with other massive medical districts in other big cities around the country, these smaller 'gems' will inevitably have to go because they cannot provide the necessary and advanced medical treatments that patients require. Older buildings like Fantus would require expensive MEP (and even structural) upgrades to bring them up contemporary standards.

I'm just extremely thankful that the old County hospital building facade was maintained. The County and it's partner developers are still moving forward with that phased development.

[the urban politician]

^ I agree, but I seriously wonder if IMD really needs to control that much land

[lakeviewer]

Another Uptown TOD at the corner of Wilson & Magnolia. This could be replacing the Starbucks that closed last year:

https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/12/1...lia-wilson-tod

Also reported was this TOD at Sunnyside & Broadway: https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/11/2...-sunnyside-tod

[left of center]

Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

The old triangular building on Ogden just south of 290 by cook county hospital is being demolished, bummer...

That's a shame. It wasn't the prettiest building, but certainly better looking than the 70's modernist crap around it *cough* Medical Center Apts *cough* It doesn't help that the IMD demo'd almost every other prewar building in the immediate vicinity, giving the neighborhood a pedestrian unfriendly and antiseptic feel.

What do they plan on replacing it with? Please don't say an empty gravel lot for a decade...

[J_M_Tungsten]

Today
I guess it looks better gray...




IMD




Blackhawks facility and Rush University land (west of Blackhawks facility. Ogden entrance to Blue line too.

[left of center]

^ Wow... it actually looks a lot better in grey. I can suppress my gag reflex while looking at it now!

[Skyguy_7]

^Holy smokes! Never noticed the windows until now. Nice little early Christmas gift.

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by left of center

That's a shame. It wasn't the prettiest building, but certainly better looking than the 70's modernist crap around it *cough* Medical Center Apts *cough* It doesn't help that the IMD demo'd almost every other prewar building in the immediate vicinity, giving the neighborhood a pedestrian unfriendly and antiseptic feel.

What do they plan on replacing it with? Please don't say an empty gravel lot for a decade...

I don't know. It's not included in Stroger's master plan. Initially I thought they would vacate that short block of Wolcott and combine this triangle with Pasteur Park across the street, but the master plan actually calls for Wolcott to be extended south of Harrison and become the main (visitor) entrance to the hospital.

The fact that the building is being torn down without a plan for reuse is troubling, given that there are already several vacant overgrown triangles along this stretch of Ogden. Ugh I really wish architects would treat Ogden like a regular commercial street in Chicago, instead of like a Gurnee auto sewer.

[marothisu]

Does anyone know of any plans for anything new on Union Avenue between Hubbard and Grand (near Milwaukee Ave). There were 4 lots of land sold on 9/8 to a U46IC LLC which covers 2 vacant lots and a (probably) vacant 1 story industrial type of building. According to Loopnet, the zoning (C1-5) can accommodate up to 94 units.

This is right around the corner from that Seven 10 West being built on Grand (105 units) and Kenect (227 units) near the Grand Blue Line stop. I guess it's possible that we could see another almost 100 units materialize in that area before our eyes. It's also more or less across the street from the Salvation Army on Grand. Wasn't there talks of redevelopment there?

Currently:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/44...!4d-87.6455042

[KWillChicago]

That grey looks so much better. I kind of wish they could had worked on the exterior lighting.

[marothisu]

The former Agudas Achim synagogue in Uptown at 5029 N Kenmore (Kenmore & Argyle) was issued a permit yesterday to finally convert it to 40 dwelling units.

[J_M_Tungsten]

Ugh, sorry for the lost photos... I’m over photobucket.

[Kenmore]

Originally Posted by marothisu

The former Agudas Achim synagogue in Uptown at 5029 N Kenmore (Kenmore & Argyle) was issued a permit yesterday to finally convert it to 40 dwelling units.

sigh

[LouisVanDerWright]

Boom:

[HomrQT]

Originally Posted by J_M_Tungsten

Ugh, sorry for the lost photos... I’m over photobucket.

imgur does well for me, I also used flickr for a long time with almost no issues

[jc5680]

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