Jan 14

Thanks for all the great updates harryc! I'm so excited about this project. This is really going to extend the central core of the city.

January 22nd 2017

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Awesome update all around, deebirch :cheers:

After daydreaming so long at would could have gone on these sites, I have mixed feelings about what is going up. That said, usable real estate beats blank land, so build baby build!

Definitely excited for this project. Its vastness alone is mind numbingly amazing. Its crazy how different the entire neighborhood will feel once its complete. This reminds me of the 00's mega-projects like LSE and Central Station.

Hopefully this puts market pressure on the proposed development on the huge lot to the south (Roosevelt/Clark/18th). With the South Loop moving further south, higher demand and property values coupled with less remaining vacant space aught to benefit it in the long term.

February 6, 2017

Are two towers supposed to be the same floor and unit count - 28 floors with 452 units? There was another permit issued the other day for a tower of those stats for the same address as two previous Riverline permits. This permit is for a full building with estimated cost of $50M. There was a permit from October for $100M..

amazing property that close to Loop

The city needs to finish the Wells-Wentworth Connector project so that site has a connection to the street grid. It appears that phase 1 is wrapping up, but there are still 2 more phases to go.

^The city won't do that just on spec. They'll have Related Midwest build Wells through the site south of Roosevelt as part of the PD—though TIF money might pay for it in some way.

Wow, how did I miss this? So glad they're finally developing that huge vacant plot of land. Ive always wondered why this plot of land only a few blocks away from the Sears Tower hasn't been developed until now, it would seem like this would have been prime real estate for the past 20-30 years for developers.

Feb 10

I was roaming different web pages yesterday but cant remember if it was curbed, dnainfo or something else but it was saying that tower two, not sure which one that would be, could start up this summer. They also were saying that they would work on the river shore ground this summer comparing to wolf point, which i would imagine is pile work? Which would lead me to believe its one of the towers along the river. Anyone else hear anything about this. Sorry i didnt save the link.

Feb 20


the man with the plan


A stressful point in the building

steel is used to take stress - concrete compression.

I was bored and went snooping around with marina city and prentice. Found out that Betrand Goldberg originally did have one massive riverfront park design for River City from Congress down to Roosevelt. Some cool scetches of his future proposals as well. I'm sure alot of you have seen this stuff but it was new to me. Pretty cool to see what could have been, but with this new massive proposal of Riverline I'm glad they waited.



http://bertrandgoldberg.org/projects/river-city/

Interesting read on the riverwalk, including some details on this project further in: http://www.surfacemag.com/articles/a...ago-riverwalk/

View from Skydeck, March 4, 2017
 

teohwp85 Thank you for all the shots - this one in particular.

You're welcome!