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Old Posted Aug 25, 2016, 5:42 PM
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^ Interestingly, in residential construction spending Chicago is doing even better, beating every other metro except NYC and Dallas.

LA's numbers are remarkably low, which I found quite interesting.
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Old Posted Aug 25, 2016, 5:49 PM
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^ Interestingly, in residential construction spending Chicago is doing even better, beating every other metro except NYC and Dallas.

LA's numbers are remarkably low, which I found quite interesting.
How does one see the full report? That is interesting...would love to see the numbers.
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Old Posted Aug 25, 2016, 7:42 PM
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^ I pulled those numbers from the very same graph they displayed
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Old Posted Aug 25, 2016, 7:54 PM
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^ I pulled those numbers from the very same graph they displayed
I thought you meant YTD which would be the right. I took that to mean overall, but maybe it's just residential.
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Old Posted Aug 25, 2016, 10:29 PM
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I thought you meant YTD which would be the right. I took that to mean overall, but maybe it's just residential.
Residential is great in my book.
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While I was at Big&Little's today with friends, I saw a bulldozer moving brick and dirt around on the vacant lot across Orleans. All the weeds and grass in that lot also seemed to be gone. I believe it may be for the office project planned at 863 N. Orleans, but I haven't heard much news about the project in the past couple of months.
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Old Posted Aug 26, 2016, 2:52 AM
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^ I never knew about that project till you mentioned it. A nice, sleek building. Great to see this getting started!
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Old Posted Aug 26, 2016, 1:56 PM
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New 120,000 sq ft shopping center at Jefferson & Taylor got its first permit yesterday for the foundation (http://chicago.curbed.com/2016/1/14/...son-and-taylor). Permit says 5 stories, but the rendering shows 4 stories.


Also, very small news but that crappy vacant lot across from the original Kuma's Corner and next to Burger King (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9393...8i6656!6m1!1e1) got a permit for 9 units.
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While I was at Big&Little's today with friends, I saw a bulldozer moving brick and dirt around on the vacant lot across Orleans. All the weeds and grass in that lot also seemed to be gone. I believe it may be for the office project planned at 863 N. Orleans, but I haven't heard much news about the project in the past couple of months.
Big& Littles is for sale as well, only a matter of time before that gets developed too!

Also it makes sense they are starting 863 N Orleans now that NEXT is nearly complete, they were using that lot as a staging area for equipment and supplies
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Old Posted Aug 26, 2016, 2:35 PM
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That really livens up that stretch of Chicago. Although that storefront church already makes that block quite lively on Sundays - if you've ever been near there on a Sunday morning, it really jams!
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While I was at Big&Little's today with friends, I saw a bulldozer moving brick and dirt around on the vacant lot across Orleans. All the weeds and grass in that lot also seemed to be gone. I believe it may be for the office project planned at 863 N. Orleans, but I haven't heard much news about the project in the past couple of months.


This is really good infill for that area. It's a fancy little building, too
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Old Posted Aug 26, 2016, 4:55 PM
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New 120,000 sq ft shopping center at Jefferson & Taylor got its first permit yesterday for the foundation (http://chicago.curbed.com/2016/1/14/...son-and-taylor). Permit says 5 stories, but the rendering shows 4 stories.


Also, very small news but that crappy vacant lot across from the original Kuma's Corner and next to Burger King (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9393...8i6656!6m1!1e1) got a permit for 9 units.
If you like that, then you should be happy about this, the Ace hardware store and vacant lots will be biting the dust. This was the original proposal:


Curbed

The Neigbhorhood Association is pushing back on the design and some urban planning issues. I think they are going to ask for it to hold the corner of Elston and Belmont and possibly have some upper level setbacks or something more interesting than ye olde cheapo bullshit. I'm sure they will ask for some unit count reductions too to placate the neighbors, but overall this is a great way to mop up some of the missing teeth in this stretch of Belmont. I'd expect for this to be approved in some form and that this will not be the final design.
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^ Very interesting. Would be good to get that Ace Hardware out of there (and that Burger King), but that design sucks so much LOL. The buildings on the corner that Kuma's is on are actually pretty good. Wish it they could build stuff like that again.
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Didn't that same building go up in Morton Grove in the early aughts?
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^ How does a 2 story building manage to carry retail space plus a K-8 school?

That's a lot to pack into that space.
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Was walking through Chinatown yesterday and saw that the hotel that was U/C for awhile is open. Looks like it's been about a month or two since it opened. The lobby actually looked half way modern and trendy. It's gotten good reviews on Trip Advisor and Hotels.com so far. Not luxury or anything, but looks like potentially a decent, comfortable option if you want to stay somewhere close to downtown for cheaper than a downtown hotel (Hotels.com has it at around $110/night right now. Average might be closer to $140/night):


http://www.jaslinhotel.com/
https://www.hotels.com/ho573431/jasl...es-of-america/
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Re..._Illinois.html
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^ How does a 2 story building manage to carry retail space plus a K-8 school?

That's a lot to pack into that space.
AltSchool describes itself as a "micro-school" with very small groups of mixed-aged classrooms. It's not a traditional K-8 school and doesn't need as much space, per se.
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While I was at Big&Little's today with friends, I saw a bulldozer moving brick and dirt around on the vacant lot across Orleans. All the weeds and grass in that lot also seemed to be gone. I believe it may be for the office project planned at 863 N. Orleans, but I haven't heard much news about the project in the past couple of months.
Nifty project for sure. What's its story? Is it going forward as of right?
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