CHICAGO | General Developments

[munchymunch]

Thats bs why would they even consider these places.... might as well have a tent in the middle of downtown

[munchymunch]

under current bill state would have to pay 900 milion to build it ????

[harryc]

Thompson Center ????

Where the public is banned from all but the bottom 2 floors ?

The building where they can't figure out how to slave an elevator to the bottom 2 floors and LL so there is always an officer running the elevator ?

[oshkeoto]

On the Green Line today, saw what looked like foundations for 3-5 six flats on the 4700 and 4800 blocks of South Calumet, filling in some vacant blocks near the heart of Bronzeville. I assume they're Plan for Transformation stuff, but still great to see.

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by oshkeoto

On the Green Line today, saw what looked like foundations for 3-5 six flats on the 4700 and 4800 blocks of South Calumet, filling in some vacant blocks near the heart of Bronzeville. I assume they're Plan for Transformation stuff, but still great to see.

Yep. Legends South is doing stuff there. There's 8 building permits on Calumet alone between 47th and 49th along the Green Line tracks. This equates to 35 new housing units. Also a 3 unit building at 4332 S Prairie (not far from the tracks), a 5 unit building at 4335 S Michigan, and a 2 unit + 1 commercial unit building at 119 E 43rd St

[marothisu]

Also to everyone - I have included the link to my two maps (2014 new construction building permits and Chicago construction projects) in my signature now at the suggestion of another user. Both are up to date

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by marothisu

Also to everyone - I have included the link to my two maps (2014 new construction building permits and Chicago construction projects) in my signature now at the suggestion of another user. Both are up to date

Thanks for doing that, unfortunately whenever I click these links all I get is a blank screen

[Kenmore]

Originally Posted by the urban politician

Man that just completes that corner.

Yeah its design is dull, but I'll take it over a windswept lot

Pretty much.

This kind of infill is pretty huge in this area, especially as it slowly creeps closer to the core of Uptown. Would be great to see a mini-high rise boom after the Wilson remodel is complete.

[SamInTheLoop]

Originally Posted by Ch.G, Ch.G

Agreed. I hope something is done. It's an abomination. A bastardization of the previous design. (Wasn't that VDT? Or am I thinking of a different development?)

Yes, it was a VDT.

Agree with everyone here that the new design is pretty lame. It's an Antunovich, no surprise (fyi Antunovich also designed another recent Mariano's-anchored urban retail center recently, I believe - the project on Halsted in the West Loop).

I'm curious why with this new version the residential was dropped. Anyone have any scoop? Was there any NIMBY pressure behind that decision? I can't remember if there was any meaningful level of anti-residential (as bizarre as that is!) component neighborhood sentiment with the previous version....

[SamInTheLoop]

Originally Posted by wierdaaron

According to Chicago Tonight, the chamber of commerce's three recommendations for casino locations were the Thompson Center, the top 3 floors of Macy's on State, or the Congress Hotel. All of those sound pretty terrible.

I agree, very strange. For some reason the Chamber of Commerce has always been dead-set on a super-central, central/east loop location. However, as far as I'm aware the city does not necessarily share that mindset.

Whenever it does eventually come about (let me put it this way - there doesn't exactly seem to be a firestorm of support behind this latest bill, certainly at least thus far), I still think - as others here do as well - that it will wind up on the near south side....

[joeg1985]

Originally Posted by marothisu

Looks like the developer is wasting no time getting started on this and is already clearing out the site. It will be 19 new condos starting at $450K each. Summer 2015 completion

I really like this building from the Clark street side, but it does nothing to address Lawrence. Is the site two small to have retail fronting Lawrence as well? With Lawrence receiving the new streetscaping starting at Clark and heading to Western I really think Lawrence deserves to be fronted with some decent retail as well. Give the street some more presence. Especially since it looses presence heading west after Broadway with the cemetery on the north side of it.

Any one know/have an idea why they would ignore Lawrence as if it were just a residential side street?

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by the urban politician

Thanks for doing that, unfortunately whenever I click these links all I get is a blank screen

Hm, that's odd. What browser are you using? Anybody else having this problem?

[jcchii]

great maps, marothisu

[LouisVanDerWright]

Chicago Tonight had a good piece on the El Centro campus featuring Denis Rodkin and pictures of the first fin that they installed that I mentioned the other day:

http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2014/...-campus-update

It's worth a watch. Rodkin mentions that NEIU is buying the rest of the buildings to the SE of the new building which could open up space for another building on that campus eventually though it will only be a plaza for now.

[J_M_Tungsten]

Today
Phase 2 at Adams and Aberdeen
I thought this was odd

[ardecila]

A plaza would be great at El Centro but it still won't make for a pleasant walk to the Blue Line. They need better crosswalks and sidewalks around that clusterfuck of an interchange.

[left of center]

Originally Posted by wierdaaron

According to Chicago Tonight, the chamber of commerce's three recommendations for casino locations were the Thompson Center, the top 3 floors of Macy's on State, or the Congress Hotel. All of those sound pretty terrible.

Awful. Why even consider building it there? None of those places screams "Hey, lets have fun and gamble!". Quite frankly, I think any location outside of the area immediately around McCormick Place is a foolish idea (well... maybe in the Old Post Office). They are already building the DePaul Arena and trying to turn Cermak/Indiana into an entertainment node. A casino would be a perfect anchor, and have easy access to tourists and business travelers.

[Ch.G, Ch.G]

Originally Posted by marothisu

Hm, that's odd. What browser are you using? Anybody else having this problem?

I'm using Chrome and can see them just fine.

[ChickeNES]

The CTA has a new page up about plans for the Brown Line bypass at Clark junction north of the Belmont station:
http://www.transitchicago.com/news_i...pm/bypass.aspx
Looks like they plan on working with developers to use the land leftover from the project to build more TOD, including the plot at Belmont and Wilton that has been vacant since they rebuilt the station during the Brown Line rehab.

[marothisu]

I guess now we have to deal with Jefferson Park NIMBYs. There's a proposal near the Jefferson Park Transit Center for 48 units (yay TOD) near Argyle & Long that residents think is "too tall" and "too dense"....at 4-5 stories tall. Before the economic stuff it was supposed to be 7 SFHs. What the hell?