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McPier sues to move landmarked Prairie Avenue mansion By: Alby Gallun March 17, 2014 Quote:
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Unfortunately this tower isn't going to be as tall as we hoped. It'll still have 1,200 rooms, but it's going to be more in the 50-55 story range due to budgetary issues.
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Budget issues, even with tons of TIF money? Wonderful. Now we wait and see what this thing looks like.
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General Updates in the South Loop
Some interesting developments are coming from McPier and their schemes...
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Something not to be missed (or so I've been led to believe):
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I haven't heard anything, but I am reasonably sure that the park/open space addition they are referring to is the new music and dog park being built on the east side of Wabash between 16th and 18th. |
Meeting tonight: 7 p.m. at Second Presbyterian Church, 1936 S. Michigan Ave.
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I was able to attend the meeting last night and here are a few notes:
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Some photos from last night's meeting from Curbed: http://chicago.curbed.com/archives/2...pment-plan.php
http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs...k-marriott.jpg Looks identical to the previous renders except for that tower to the east of the hotel (data center I guess). I guess it might be time to change this thread's imagery because the glass bouquet design they first teased us with is not happening. |
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This project goes before the plan commission on Wednesday 04/23
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Yeah, this new hotel design sucks and reeks of value engineering. It's like theWit's bigger, dumbed-down Vegas cousin.
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I kinda like it, and there aren't many highrises in that area either (A bit south of the city I presume)
Is it still around 700 feet? |
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I can't believe that crappy looking draft of a highrise data center is Gensler though. Is this just McHugh's in-house design team? Its design should get a small share of the community criticism too. Just because there are some gorgeous buildings around it doesn't mean you can sneak attack with a junky new one in between them. Anyway, what can you do. At least 715 feet -- and "Event Floor Level 62" -- have a really, really nice ring to them. |
The big tank at the foot of Cermak (behind the Platt Luggage façade) is MPEA's district cooling plant. I think they make ice in there overnight, when electricity is cheaper, to be used for cooling during the day.
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Agree with you guys. Project is getting lamer and lamer. Sure, I like the injection of tons of new activity, and could really kick-start the near-south side up to the south loop to truly join in this boom, but it's not doing much at all for me design-wise - and it had such great potential (who cares if the tower is still 600-700 ft if the design is such a ve'd-to-death banal version of the original?) Would much rather have a 500 ft version with a strong design statement (not even necessarily a 'statement' - just a strong design, period). And think of some of the other design submissions for the event center.......the winning Pelli is eh - it's ok....not bad, but there were better, for sure. The results overall here seem like they will have that sad 'Chicago government involvement in design decisions'-type of look (at least how it's largely been for the better part of 25-30 years, ie results lacking). I've mentioned before, but I think not on this thread - it would be pretty bold for the city/mcpier to not at least delay for one month until may plan commission - it seems to me that a lot of this was all just publicly released this month........I mean, pretty much everyone knows these ways that Chicago (fails to) 'work', but has it just gotten to the point that location politicians don't even care anymore to put forth at least minor efforts to put up appareances that it's not all closed-door insider wheeler-dealing? I mean, c'mon guys - talk about lazy!! |
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