CHICAGO | Millie on Michigan/CitizenM (300 N Michigan Ave) | 523 ft | 47 FLOORS
 

New apartment/hotel proposal that is beginning site prep, demo of the old warehouse/loft building on site:

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/d0wv...g_Package1.jpg via bKL

https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/3/25...e-sterling-bay

This could be the last major change to that weird block. Everything else is either worthy of staying or too small to be torn down and made into something bigger. At least that's the way it looks to me

So many lambdas!

It's an attractive enough tower albeit a bit boring, I just wish they could have acquired the low rise lot just to the north so they could have butted up and covered over that awful pomo-cold-storage-warehouse side wall of 320 N Michigan.

True that. An ugly wall and a prominent location it is.
However from most angles, especially street level, I think and hope that the south side wall of 320 Michigan will mostly be obstructed than the renders depict.

300 N Michigan Demo Progress
https://i.imgur.com/lTsJtUnh.jpg

Thread bump just to mention that it’s been reported that demo of the existing building is about to start

On that note, if you want to see the carbon and carbide building from the top of the London House, better hurry up and make it to that cupola!

300 N Michigan
 

Sept 6

Does nobody thing of the pigeons ?




Sept 10

September 23, 2019

That might just be a rare pigeon species. I demand an environmental impact statement. Also rare spiders on rare cobwebs.

Also not to poo-poo too much, but this lot would have made an amazing location for a 1000 footer. The view up the river...:slob:

I agree...such a prime lot to develop for something tall.. doesn't seem like much of a risk to go for something in the 700ft to 800 ft range for this location...just off Michigan avenue... :shrug:

So goes several high-profile sites in Chicago lately...although the Salesforce tower upsets me more than this one. Part of me wishes both sites could sit this one out until the next cycle in the hopes of a more worthy proposal. BUT I suppose it could be worse, at least the designs (in a vacuum) are pretty decent? :shrug:

Yeah, couple tens of million $$, not too much risk :rolleyes:

in its entire history, the city of chicago has only seen towers 800' or taller constructed on 18 occasions. that's it, just 18 times.

99% of the highrises chicago has built over the centuries have been less than 800' tall.

expecting every single patch of land in downtown chicago to now sprout 800+ foot towers is way beyond unrealistic.

Depending on pricing and marketing there could be also tens of millions more in profit too with a larger building...acting like this location would be so far fetched and taking such a crazy risk at a taller building than what's gonna be built currently is pretty close minded... this isn't the south loop ...its a pretty prime location.

You right. However, doesn't it seem like we've seen significantly less 800'+ proposals since the crash of '08? Does it speak to local and national developers being less bullish on the market here, with a majority of proposals being more conservative, blueglass, semi-boring towers in the downtown area? The one place I'm seeing adventurous architecture is the West Loop. Now that I think of it, the current boom in that neighborhood may mean less 800+ footers; sucking up the demand for office and residential?

no.

i'd say it's 100% the opposite.

chicago has never seen more 800' projects than it is right now.




chicago's 800+ footers have been built in 4 distinct building booms, with one outlier (park tower).


'69-'76: 5

- hancock
- chase
- aon
- sears
- WTP



'89-'90: 4

- franklin
- 900 N
- 2 Pru
- 311 S



2000: 1

- park tower



2009-2010: 3

- trump
- aqua
- legacy




2018-202?: 5 + 6 active proposals

- one bennet
- NEMA
- vista
- 110 N
- OCS


- tribune east
- 400 LSD 1
- 400 LSD 2
- LSE site I
- 1000M
- salesforce

^ Of which Salesforce is almost definitely a go since they have an anchor tenant, and 1000M is "Starting in October!" (or November....or December.....or never) perhaps