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CHICAGO | Hyde Park Development
I thought it was about time to finally start a separate thread for all of the projects going in Hyde Park. It's hard to really understand the changes in this area without looking at the whole picture.
So this thread is focused primarily on the transformation of 53rd Street. Feel free to add anything you think is relevant. I will definitely be adding construction photos, new retail tenants, and projects/ renderings in the near future. http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/3873/53rdmap.jpg Harper Court Mixed-use development with office, retail, residential Phase 1: Retail podium with structured parking - LA Fitness, Chipotle http://imageshack.us/m/88/310/hc3v.jpgOffice tower - 150,000 square feet leased to the University of Chicago, retail on first two floors http://imageshack.us/m/268/1646/hc1v.jpgHyatt Place Hotel - 130 rooms, winebar/restaurant http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/265...ect3image1.jpgFuture phases: residential tower and mid-rises http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/9782/hyde2.jpgCity Hyde Park 179 units Retail tenants: Whole Foods, Chase bank, Original Pancake House http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/928/chp06.jpgHarper Theater - renovation Retail tenants: Five Guys, 5-screen New 400 Theaters with Metropolis Coffee cafe http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/5...ertheater1.jpgFormer Borders Building -exterior facade changes Retail tenants: Akira flagship, possible restaurant/entertainment concept http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/6052/akira.jpgClarke's Diner - open 24/7 1447 East 53rd http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/4...kesjamiema.jpgKilwin's chocolate and fudge shop 5226 South Harper 53rd Street Bicycle Station http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/113/50501207.jpgFuture Developments: McMobil redevelopment - graduate student housing and retail 53rd and Cornell - residential and retail building likely (possibly a tower) |
Awesome stuff there.
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Spyguy, I vote you MVP among Chicago forumers
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Mods, can we get a Chicago tag on this thread please?
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Just found this thread. Copy-pasting my Harper Court update I had posted in the Gen Dev thread.
--- (from their Facebook page) April 24th - The site viewed from the McDonald's (Southwest): http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...62120219_n.jpg April 24th - The Harper Court site viewed from the Hyde Park Bank (North): http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...95005812_n.jpg April 24th - The office tower viewed from the Hyde Park Bank (Northeast): http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...21870936_n.jpg May 15th http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...46517133_n.jpg Also, Curbed did an update a few days ago. |
Have there been any updates regarding Solstice*? I thought I remember reading a blurb mentioning they were going ahead with the work for the school/access drive/park but that there was still no timetable for the building to get underway.
*I know its not 53rd, sorry |
^Nice photo updates.
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As for your question, everything I've read indicates that Antheus hasn't completely killed Solstice but that it's on the back burner. Unless they switch to apartments, it's going to be a while. The downtown condo market is still pretty dead so what chance does Hyde Park have? On the other hand, if everything above happens (Whole Foods, new restaurants, etc.) a lot more people might consider living in Hyde Park. |
Any way we can tag this thread so it pops up in the Chicago P & C subsection of the forum?
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Some additional unannounced national retail tenants for Harper Court:
Noodles & Company Ulta beauty Starbucks in the office tower (I'm not sure if this means that the current Starbucks will close or not) |
It might be just a kiosk. Some kind of in-building coffee shop is pretty much de rigeur for new office buildings. Meanwhile, an office-lobby Starbucks would attract far fewer walk-ins.
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Harper Court construction update: you can see part of the facade already on the first floor. The bike station is in the background. http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8...9129262710.jpg Harper Court/ Facebook 53rd Street Bicycle Center - opened this week Hours and Services: SUMMER: M-F 7am-7pm, S-S: 9am-7pm SPRING/FALL: M-F: 7am-7pm, S-S: 10am-6pm WINTER: M-F: 9am-5pm, S-S: Closed Bike rental, parking, repairs, showers & lockers, segway tours, and merchandise http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2...3050976966.jpg http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/9...0509793166.jpg Bike and Park/ Facebook |
Wow, those photos are great. This is a building for the ages.
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Thanks a lot! To me this is one of the best buildings in recent years in Chicago. The building has a lot of the future-leaning feel of mid-century modernism without actually replicating that style.
I used to think the facade was wood, but someone here corrected me - it's actually limestone, just with a color and layout similar to wood. |
Dan, your pics are amazing. But the more I look at this building, the less I like it. Williams and Tsien are known for their materiality and the swaths of limestone come off one dimensional and bland to me. Maybe I'm a philistine who "doesn't get it," but this building really bores me. I love Williams and Tsien, but this building is increasingly feeling like it isn't their best. I do like the scale changes between the tower and base, but the louvered roof seems a hackneyed choice and the storefront windows feel clinical instead of feeling like the warm-modernity that the pair is known for.
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Give the limestone some time to weather. Right now it looks like it could be precast, but as it weathers it will develop a great texture.
The idea for the limestone-as-brick comes from Mario Ridolfi, and his building's been around for 80 years; the limestone looks fantastic after all that time. Post Office at Piazza Bologna, Rome (1933) http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2444/3...772208_b_d.jpg |
A lot of the walls are a soft rubbery material, which looks nice and creates a comfortable feeling, but I wonder how that will age. The whole place feels super-new right now.
One thing I like is the way it forms almost a cloister together with the Midway Studios. Also it's rare to have an 11-story tower with this level of intimacy (each floor is small & also unique) but combined with an openness thanks to generous proportions and floor-to-ceiling glass. It's almost literally a modern interpretation of an ivory tower. (Both limestone & ivory are mostly calcium I believe.) The scale changes from the tower to base are definitely one of the best features - even more so on the interior. |
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That is so true. I do need to get down there. I saw this and the Mansuetta library when they were U/C last year, but I need to see them now that they are finished. But because of the way I am situated on public transit, I've either got to drive or take nearly 2 hours to get down. |
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