CHICAGO | General Developments

[george]

4/26

1100 N. State St. w Velvet Taco

[Randomguy34]

Took these shots on Thursday when I was going between classes

Payton College Prep Expansion - 4/22

[sentinel]

^Thanks, especially love the middle photo where you can see that GREC-designed tower and the smaller (10 stories is small in Chicago, ha!) new construction to the right of it.

[wierdaaron]

Old Colony is getting a spray job as part of the massive restoration going on.

[wierdaaron]

Apparently after I posted about 61 W Erie on Curbed, realtors have been hounding Hudson Construction, who leaked the design renders, to ask how to buy them. A lot of rich people saw that design and said yes yes I will buy please tell me how.

Whoever is behind the project didn't put out contact information or anything. The zoning board amendment was filed by a pop-up LLC called "Erie Acquisitions". Nobody can figure out who to buy from. It's like some big dumb mystery or whoever's backing the project has no PR or sales skills.

I think I remember there being some kind of fight here about whether rich people would want to live there at those prices. I don't remember who or what was in that argument, but it looks like the answer is yes.

edit - this thing:

[Ryanrule]

well yeah, 95% of the apartments/condos going up have precisely zero interesting design going on inside. even the high end luxury towers have mostly crap until you get up to the top penthouse levels.

[PKDickman]

Originally Posted by wierdaaron

Apparently after I posted about 61 W Erie on Curbed, realtors have been hounding Hudson Construction, who leaked the design renders, to ask how to buy them. A lot of rich people saw that design and said yes yes I will buy please tell me how.

Whoever is behind the project didn't put out contact information or anything. The zoning board amendment was filed by a pop-up LLC called "Erie Acquisitions". Nobody can figure out who to buy from. It's like some big dumb mystery or whoever's backing the project has no PR or sales skills.

I think I remember there being some kind of fight here about whether rich people would want to live there at those prices. I don't remember who or what was in that argument, but it looks like the answer is yes.

My impression, from the original Hudson listing, was not that they were looking to pre-sell condos, but rather, sell land with plans.
I got the same impression from their listing for the project on Western and Grand.

Erie Acq, by the way, is Michael Lerner, AKA MCZ Dev. Their offices or in the former Karboski tracts on Bosworth north of North Ave.

[PKDickman]

On a lighter note,
During my morning stroll, I rounded the corner at Leavitt and Milwaukee and noticed that the jam nuts were down on the B'dale trail bridge over Milwaukee.
The cables are tensioned and the bridge is fully self supporting and floating off the supports.
A crew is there removing the piers on the west side.
I shot a photo, but because of the contrast, you couldn't see much except one missing pier.

[ChiHi]

I remember seeing a posting about this lot a while back but don't remember a rendering for it. This will be a pretty nice infill building. Just find it hard to justify paying over a million to have a view over the Cabrini rowhouses. Although if you look past those, the skyline view is actually really nice.

http://www.atproperties.com/8904500/...nois-60654-nei

[george]

4/29

1811-25 W. Division update, all panels in place.
This type of constructions gives an almost instant sense of scale of the final result.

[Jibba]

^It looks like near-fully half of the parcel will be unused (or, rather, surface parking).

[J_M_Tungsten]

Today

[george]

Originally Posted by Jibba

^It looks like near-fully half of the parcel will be unused (or, rather, surface parking).

Certainly not as deep as the original proposal.

[PKDickman]

Originally Posted by Jibba

^It looks like near-fully half of the parcel will be unused (or, rather, surface parking).

Originally Posted by george

Certainly not as deep as the original proposal.

The parcel is L shaped, consisting of 2 short lots and 3 long lots.
All the parking is on the rear of the three long (west) lots.

The surface lot is the same size as the earlier proposal, those proposals had a section of the building cantilevered over the parking and a dummy wall covering the parking beneath the cantilever.

In its current incarnation, that cantilevered section (which would have required steel framing) has been eliminated in favor of tip up pre-cast.

[george]

Originally Posted by PKDickman

There was parking and a dummy wall covering the parking beneath the cantilever in the original proposal. However you can clearly see more residential deep to floors 2,3,& 4 or that must be an optical illusion.

[PKDickman]

Originally Posted by george

There was parking and a dummy wall covering the parking beneath the cantilever in the original proposal. However you can clearly see more residential deep to floors 2,3,& 4 or that must be an optical illusion.

The cantilever portion had three apts on each floor (2 1/2 actually)

They just lopped it off. Now, the building is shorter on the Honore side making the Parking lot look large.
I imagine they turned the 1/2 apt left over back into a studio, and judging by their unit count, they turned the other 2bd units into studios as well.

[george]

My understanding is approximately 36 units w 9,000 sq ft of retail & 36 parking spaces.
If I wasn't clear before, the revised building now is certainly not as deep as the original proposal.

[go go white sox]

Hello all long time observer first time poster, looking forward to sharing information and opinions on designs. I have always had an interest in architecture especially in the form of buildings. I hope to contribute intelligently to the forum.

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by marothisu

Interesting - 8 new SFH building permits have been issued this year for the area bounded by I-90, Halsted, Pershing, and about 45th. Also 6 townhomes just north of Pershing around there. 5 of those are between 41st St, 42nd place, Wallace, and Normal. Would be interesting to see if this is the beginning of something in that area.

Another one issued yesterday. This is kind of interesting....will this area be like the "new Bridgeport" for recent development on the southside (along with Bronzeville)?

[Skyguy_7]

NBC Nightly News just confirmed the Presidential Library is going to Chicago, "near the UofC campus."