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I feel like the gc (mchugh I assume) really effed this up. The site has been a mess since they started and it has taken months to get Out of the ground. Maybe they will be able to get their act together and make this job presentable.
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I feel like the gc (mchugh I assume) really effed this up. The site has been a mess since they started and it has taken months to get Out of the ground. Maybe they will be able to get their act together and make this job presentable.
Quite a bit going on in the other 3/4 of the site (the non tower part).
from May 23rd
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The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. B Franklin.
WHAT: 350 E. South Water Street, GEMS School Project
WHO: Hosted by the New Eastside Association of Residents
(NEAR) and Alderman Reilly
WHEN: Wednesday, July 25th at 5:30 P.M.
WHERE: Radisson Blu Aqua Chicago Hotel
Red & Black Sea Meeting Rooms, 3rd Floor
221 N. Columbus Drive
Area E of Residential Business Planned Development #70 to allow for two private school buildings. Phase I of the project is proposed as a 153 foot tall, 9-story building containing 82,000 square feet for grades Kindergarten through 4th Grade. Phase II of the project is proposed as a 240 foot tall, 13-story structure containing 320,000 square feet for grades 5-12 and 105 parking stalls.
^ Shawn and Victor and I went. There wasn't a whole lot of new information about the school. The meeting wasn't as contentious as the meetings for Wolf Point or River Point were. We did learn that the Arquitectonica plan is no longer active, which I'm sure will disappoint many here. Something else yet undetermined will go on that site.
Thanks but yeah, I pretty much figured Arquitectonica was dead after the plan for the schools came out. Any ground breaking/completion dates on the schools?
^ Shawn and Victor and I went. There wasn't a whole lot of new information about the school. The meeting wasn't as contentious as the meetings for Wolf Point or River Point were. We did learn that the Arquitectonica plan is no longer active, which I'm sure will disappoint many here. Something else yet undetermined will go on that site.
I believe there's another tower planned for the site, and everyone here will be elated with the project's architect whenever they decide to announce it.
The projected start/completion dates went by too fast for me in a flurry of details (while I was fishing for my pen) to catch them. Shawn thought he heard they'd start this year, with Phase 1 (the 10-story k-4 school on South Water Street) finished in 2013 (which seems over-optimistic to me) and the 13-story 5-12 school on Wacker Drive finished in 2014. But don't take my word for it - these might have been the start dates for all I know!
And yeah, Magellan definitely plans to develop the 375 East Wacker site in some form. They say they're committed to bringing good architecture to the site.
I believe there's another tower planned for the site, and everyone here will be elated with the project's architect whenever they decide to announce it.
Hmmmm.....
Got something you want to share?
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caisson equipment on site.....let the drilling begin.....
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I believe there's another tower planned for the site, and everyone here will be elated with the project's architect whenever they decide to announce it.
Do you know something, or are you extrapolating from the last two towers, which were a substantial upgrade from the usual Loewenbergs.
If there is a new architect, I'm guessing Koolhaas.
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I really like the texture of this. What does CIP stand for? and why is precast being used more than this stuff?
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Here's a great example of how bad precast can become with age and weather. Of course, a new paint job would help.
This is a parking podium at Ohio & Dearborn St.
I really like the texture of this. What does CIP stand for? and why is precast being used more than this stuff?
CIP = "Cast-In-Place" as in concrete. Not sure why precast is used more though, maybe because it's created off-site it's more cost effective or easier to form. Good question for a developer or GC.
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While everyone will probably be focused on the plans presented tonight for redeveloping Children's Memorial into a mixed-use development, St. Anthony has introduced a plan for a new hospital at 31st and Kedzie that already includes a park, community spaces, and retail.
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Thanks but yeah, I pretty much figured Arquitectonica was dead after the plan for the schools came out. Any ground breaking/completion dates on the schools?
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