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Old Posted Aug 11, 2016, 4:22 AM
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Old Posted Aug 11, 2016, 4:26 AM
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Old Posted Aug 11, 2016, 4:26 AM
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Old Posted Aug 11, 2016, 3:25 PM
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some interesting stuff from that meeting the other night re: goose island + finkl site + trib site & more

http://www.cityofchicago.org/content...2ndMeeting.pdf

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Old Posted Aug 11, 2016, 4:23 PM
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some interesting stuff from that meeting the other night re: goose island + finkl site + trib site & more

http://www.cityofchicago.org/content...2ndMeeting.pdf
They are basically calling for everything East of the river to become mixed use which is really promising. Everything West of the River and on Goose Island more or less stays the same or sees office development. Slowly redeveloping these lands should hopefully lead to denser development in the long run rather than the results of a widescale, long term, land glut as we see at North and Clyborn.
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Old Posted Aug 11, 2016, 4:25 PM
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Yeah, well my guess is the owner is more interested in getting a new lease than in redeveloping the whole thing. Certainly something I understand, and you can't blame them. But I would love for somebody at some point to see that this parcel (and some of the other ones nearby) have the potential for a much higher and more lucrative function if a denser, more vertical development were to be pursued.

Honestly it probably should be leveled at this point. The interior space is weirdly arranged since it is an amalgam of what was once separate retail spaces. Given how retail is already a bit overbuilt as it stands a poorly configured space isn't going to be very attractive. What's more, it won't be the only ground floor retail with upper level parking space in the area once Whole Foods vacates their old store at Ashland and Belmont. I'm struggling to think of a large retailer that would be interested in this property to be honest.
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Old Posted Aug 11, 2016, 5:54 PM
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Sloopin' is reporting a project for 2101 S. Wabash. Can't say I'm familiar with this one:
http://www.sloopin.com/2016/08/old-l...ng-2101-s.html
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Sloopin' is reporting a project for 2101 S. Wabash. Can't say I'm familiar with this one:
http://www.sloopin.com/2016/08/old-l...ng-2101-s.html
Yeah this one was proposed during that huge wave of proposals last August alongside the Jahn, Roosevelt/Michigan, Essex Inn addition, etc.

It's an SCB project right?
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Old Posted Aug 11, 2016, 6:09 PM
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Yeah this one was proposed during that huge wave of proposals last August alongside the Jahn, Roosevelt/Michigan, Essex Inn addition, etc.

It's an SCB project right?
Nope, this would be the small building just north of that project, which was most recently an office for L'Oreal research.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/21...6511bb!6m1!1e1
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well that would suck. i was hoping the L'Oreal building would be preserved and converted to lofts.
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i was hoping the L'Oreal building would be preserved and converted to lofts.
uhhhhhhh, according to the Sloopin article, that's exactly what's happening:

"Old L'Oreal Institute Building (2101 S. Wabash) Being Converted to Residential Units"
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IIT To Build First Academic Building On Campus In 40 Years from DNAinfo

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The Illinois Institute of Technology is preparing to break ground on its first new academic building on campus in 40 years.

The $37 million Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship will break ground on Aug. 25 and is expected to open in late 2018.
Looking forward to this Ronan design.

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^ Awesome news about Ronan at IIT - keeping it in the family, as it were.
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Old Posted Aug 12, 2016, 9:18 PM
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uhhhhhhh, according to the Sloopin article, that's exactly what's happening:

"Old L'Oreal Institute Building (2101 S. Wabash) Being Converted to Residential Units"
my bad, somehow misread that the other development was taking this over.
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ChiArch blog has info about this nice Wight-designed building to be built in Joliet. Years ago, there were plans for a new Joliet Junior College building that would have acted as a decent catalyst for new development, but that disappeared not long after the first design materialized. This building is apparently going to anchor a new, four-building development in that city's downtown.



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Nice to get good designs in the burbs, although I'm never fan of a historic building being demo'd
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Nice to get good designs in the burbs, although I'm never fan of a historic building being demo'd
The building's not that special, IMO. It's made of limestone but isn't ornately detailed or well-proportioned. It's just a supremely generic building from the 1920s.

That said, it does meet the street in a traditional urban fashion (later screwed up by blank windows). The new building will pull back from the street like a fortress for security concerns.
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They are basically calling for everything East of the river to become mixed use which is really promising. Everything West of the River and on Goose Island more or less stays the same or sees office development. Slowly redeveloping these lands should hopefully lead to denser development in the long run rather than the results of a widescale, long term, land glut as we see at North and Clyborn.
I'm mildly disappointed to see the Tribune land around Chicago/Halsted still kept open for industrial use.

That's a natural for dense office and residential mixed use... you have multi-level streets to handle traffic and it's isolated from existing neighborhoods (i.e. pockets of NIMBYs). It's not right next to transit, but it's a short walk to the Blue Line. A growing cluster there with 600 W Chicago might actually force the city to provide better transit there as well (cheapest thing would be a busway on the old rail spur running up to Clybourn Metra).
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