CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by djc2

For the last week the contents of the shipping containers on the site just south of K2 have been emptied into dumpsters, with most of the containers now moved off site. Those containers have been there for at least 10 years. Maybe site prep is next?

Could be. IIRC the developers for that were guys who got rich building self-storage facilities in the Bay Area, so I will still be surprised if they pull it off.

[BuildThemTaller]

Originally Posted by jc5680

Crains has a rendering for the wells project:

I was kind of "meh" on the thing, but I like this angle. It references the nearby brick warehouses. It's good that something there will be built, and hopefully soon. This does a lot of things well: it lines the street with active uses, has a low ratio of parking to units, puts a lot of units within a block of a CTA stop (and just a few more blocks from the Chicago and State stop).

Most importantly, it will cover up some of the terrible decisions that Moodys has made over the years to make that part of the city lifeless.

After this and One Chicago Square get built, that stretch between the Brown Line and Mag Mile will be nice and dense. Now we just need to get rid of that gas station on the southwest corner of Chicago and Wells.

[SamInTheLoop]

^ Meh. Although not terrible in its own right, it’s......tired. AMLI is a super-generic apartment developer that has no sense of design or aesthetic identity whatsoever. This is clearly just a reaction to Greg Putz seeing what’s trending in “soooo hawt” Fulton market right now. I’m a firm ‘pass’ on this one, thank you.

That stated, I definitely like the substantial increase in density over the prior proposal. Still bummed though that the prior proposal died from a design standpoint, however, as it was far superior to this (although not I suppose as bummed as Bill Smith’s family was at his passing).

[the urban politician]

^ AMLI is good at what they do. Building money boxes for its investors.

But there's something to be said about doing something with style. This is still better than that piece of shit they built further down Wells (or was it Clark) a couple of years back, decked out with a massive parking podium. I give them credit for evolving.

[PittsburghPA]

Gr333n Removing the core formwork. Core is officially topped out.

[Fvn]

And I imagine the parking podium is nearing completion too

[BonoboZill4]

Gr333n:


The Mill:


Lake street Canyon:


I'm thinking it's high time for me to go on an adventure around the city one of these weekends to do a rundown like Solar and Harry do so often now that I can take pictures with better than potato quality

[SolarWind]

September 25, 2018

[PittsburghPA]

Awesome update Solar! I had no idea they were about to start 845 w madison. I take it everything was approved and they are ready to rock?

FYI for anyone wondering, here is a curbed article about the project.
https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/6/15...-loop-h2o-plus

[SolarWind]

September 25, 2018

[SolarWind]

September 25, 2018

[maru2501]

wow. ton of activity in the 800 and 900 blocks through there

[r18tdi]

Milieu is moving faster than I expected.

[SamInTheLoop]

Originally Posted by the urban politician

^ AMLI is good at what they do. Building money boxes for its investors.

But there's something to be said about doing something with style. This is still better than that piece of shit they built further down Wells (or was it Clark) a couple of years back, decked out with a massive parking podium. I give them credit for evolving.

I don’t disagree that this is still a step up for AMLI (low bar). I’d just add that Developers that are really good at what they do build with style and with the public sphere in mind at the same time that they make a regular, acceptably large profit......

[BonoboZill4]

Gr333n:



West Loop via Lake:

[BVictor1]

https://therealdeal.com/chicago/2018...-in-west-loop/

Onni Group buys site of 373 planned apartments in West Loop

The Canadian developer paid $18M to pick up the property from Cardiff Mason Development
By Alex Nitkin | Research by Laura Hanrahan | September 26, 2018 01:00PM

The Onni Group paid $17.5 million to acquire a West Loop property from Cardiff Mason Development, three months after the city approved plans for a 373-unit apartment building to rise on the site.
The Chicago Plan Commission approved Cardiff Mason’s proposal in 2016 to build the 38-story tower at 352 North Union Avenue, but the plan had to be re-submitted to the commission this year due to a “surveyor’s error” the first time around, according to city records. The latest version was approved on June 21.
No mortgage appears to have been issued on the property since the Sept. 17 sale, according to Cook County property records.
The site barely falls inside the Near North Affordable Requirements Ordinance pilot zone established by the City Council in November, meaning any new plan would trigger a mandate for the developer to make at least 20 percent of its units affordable.

[PittsburghPA]

Great find BVictor1. Does this mean that this project is likely going to move forward? I saw they were clearing the land of shipping containers this week as noted by one of the other forumers.

[the urban politician]

Dudes, that’s not the only bit of news from that article. Take a look at this goody:

Vancouver-based Onni Group also wants to build a 356-unit residential tower at 353 West Grand Avenue in River North. Alderman Brendan Reilly (42nd) appeared to endorse the proposal in his newsletter last week, adding it’s set to go before the plan commission next month.

[BonoboZill4]

Onni has been out of their mind this cycle in terms of apartment unit deliveries. I love it

[PittsburghPA]

Originally Posted by the urban politician

Dudes, that’s not the only bit of news from that article. Take a look at this goody:

Here is some info. Forgive me if it's well known, it's well before my time in Chicago.

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/...tonight-again/