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UrbanLibertine · #**34321** Posted **Jul 24, 2016, 6:31 PM**

You sure this isn't Grand and Paulina?

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Originally Posted by harryc

July 14

harryc · #**34322** Posted **Jul 24, 2016, 9:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by UrbanLibertine

You sure this isn't Grand and Paulina?

Corrected - ty

harryc · #**34323** Posted **Jul 24, 2016, 9:49 PM**

July 19
Shot from 321 N Clark

tjp · #**34324** Posted **Jul 24, 2016, 9:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by emathias

Assuming that the availability shown on the website is accurate, they're way past 1/3 leased. It only shows 8 available units across all move-in dates and unit sizes. For example, it only shows one 3-bedroom available, for $3,300 a month. That's about what 1-bedrooms go for in the 707 N Wells building in River North, so it's still a good value for new construction overall.

Yeah - I heard from someone last week that there are only 8 market rate units left.

ardecila · #**34325** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 12:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by denizen467

^ Will be great when this is finished, and many more like this or The 606 should be prioritized around the city. But it does feel like NASA sent Juno to Jupiter in less time than this has taken.

Yeah, but this is only Phase I, which has zero usefulness. Walk along the lakefront trail by Ogden Slip and you will see the stub end of the bridge just hanging in mid air, with no work begun on the connecting piece (Phase 2) that makes it useful.

UrbanLibertine · #**34326** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 2:12 AM**

This is a bummer: WRECK & REMOVE 3 STORY BRICK BUILDING KNOWN AS ST BONIFACE CHURCH (issued on Friday)

ardecila · #**34327** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 7:13 AM**

^ According to EVA, the Music Academy plans are progressing for St Boniface. The academy developers need a zoning change and they've been fine tuning that. My understanding is that Burnett is in support.

http://www.eastvillagechicago.org/20...chive.html?m=1

the urban politician · #**34328** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 2:34 PM**

^ Wow if St Boniface gets saved here it will be by the skin of its teeth. This Music Academy better save the day or I suspect this will be our last chance to prevent demolition

ardecila · #**34329** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 5:54 PM**

^ I hope they can pull it off, but they seem like they are woefully underprepared for this kind of thing.

They're also looking at St Adalbert's in Pilsen and Epiphany Church in West Loop, for simultaneous expansions. That's crazy. Well-managed nonprofits just don't expand that fast. Each one of those sites is a highly complex project, and their org chart is pretty lacking in people with the right experience in construction, project management, or even fundraising. It seems like just a bunch of musicians.

The Academy's applied for state grants to renovate St Adalberts, so I'm hoping they get the grant and do the needed restoration work to keep the building standing before it topples onto 17th St.

Via Chicago · #**34330** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 5:58 PM**

yea im fairly skeptical of the whole thing. wheres all their cash coming from?

BB 1871 · #**34331** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 6:52 PM**

Harpo is coming down as of lunch today. 2 excavators wear tearing into the north side of the building. Wasn't able to snap a pic

Jibba · #**34332** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 8:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

Well it is an indicator of one of those three scenarios. I have a feeling it is largely because the twin towers are cannibalizing sand for the 2215 building.

Without looking into a lot of the particulars, a unit in the twins would be my pick of the two. It's right on top of the station at California and is that much closer to Logan Square's gourmet ghetto.

Jibba · #**34333** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 9:12 PM**

Belmont & Clark

Busy Bee · #**34334** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 9:23 PM**

^More of this everywhere please!

Vlajos · #**34335** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 9:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Busy Bee

^More of this everywhere please!

I agree, that's a huge change for the better!

HowardL · #**34336** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 10:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Busy Bee

^More of this everywhere please!

Looking at you, Clark/Halsted/Barry/Schaumburg intersection.

colemonkee · #**34337** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 11:08 PM**

^ For that lowered expanse of concrete on the eastern side of the river bend in that last shot, is there any plan to add landscaping to make it part of the river walk?

Clarkkent2420 · #**34338** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 11:15 PM**

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Izzi · #**34339** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 11:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by colemonkee

^ For that lowered expanse of concrete on the eastern side of the river bend in that last shot, is there any plan to add landscaping to make it part of the river walk?

yes. Final part.

http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/...at-That-Means/

ChickeNES · #**34340** Posted **Jul 25, 2016, 11:36 PM**

This is great news, I was hoping it would be saved:

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Lincoln Square Sears Spared Demolition; Reuse Proposed As Housing, Retail
Patty Wetli - July 25, 2016 - DNAInfo

LINCOLN SQUARE — Developers are planning a mixed-use reuse of the Lawrence Avenue Sears store, retaining the facade of the 90-year-old building while gutting the interior to accommodate 40 housing units and ground-floor retail.

A proposal obtained from the 47th Ward office shows that West Loop-based Springbank Real Estate Group, which specializes in transit-oriented developments, has designs on the Sears building at 1900 W. Lawrence Ave.

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2016...housing-retail