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ChicagoChicago · #**10241** Posted **Jun 10, 2010, 3:42 PM**

I don't know if this is a general development, but I did see a large shiny structure being hoisted outside my front porch this morning.

Chicago Shawn · #**10242** Posted **Jun 10, 2010, 4:13 PM**

^Nice

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Originally Posted by denizen467

http://www.chicagojournal.com/Blogs/...istrict_parcel

Costco inks 20-year lease for med district parcel
06/01/2010
By Micah Maidenberg

...

Dammit.

I love Costco, but this is the wrong place for it. I know IMD isn't best example of urbanism, but I am really tired of seeing the city suburbanized. This was an urban neighborhood and to insert this 16 acre monster, they need to cut up the street grid. 14th Place, 14th Street and Paulina will all have sections removed. This establishes even more crap context that will guide how the rest of the neighborhood and the IMD property develops. We had a clean slate to work with, and its now a lost opportunity.

Costco or IMD better pick up the tap for the loss of of the privitized meters they are replacing, as I assume they would be. The tax payers should not be subsidizing the loss of parking meters in exchange for free parking.

I know its a lease, but 20 years is a long time. Look at how much of the city has changed in 20 years, especially just east of the new Costco site.

OhioGuy · #**10243** Posted **Jun 10, 2010, 4:58 PM**

Whoa. I wonder how long it will last before some idiot tags it.

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Originally Posted by i_am_hydrogen

Will giant eye sculpture lure tourists?
By A. Pawlowski, CNN
June 7, 2010 7:41 a.m. EDT

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/06/07/chicago.eyeball.sculpture/index.html?hpt=C2

(CNN) -- Tourists are used to staring at unusual attractions, but visitors in Chicago, Illinois, will soon have one staring right back at them in a big way.

EYE, a three-story tall "incredibly lifelike" sculpture of an eyeball, will go on display in July in the city's Pritzker Park as part of a celebration of public art in the Loop, Chicago's business district.

The three-dimensional installation, complete with a blue iris, was created by contemporary artist Tony Tasset...

...EYE will be on display from July 7 through October. Perhaps appropriately, it ends its run on Halloween.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/06/07...ex.html?hpt=C2

Busy Bee · #**10244** Posted **Jun 10, 2010, 8:05 PM**

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Wait did someone use that one already?

aic4ever · #**10245** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 2:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chicago Shawn

^Nice

Dammit.

I love Costco, but this is the wrong place for it. I know IMD isn't best example of urbanism, but I am really tired of seeing the city suburbanized. This was an urban neighborhood and to insert this 16 acre monster, they need to cut up the street grid. 14th Place, 14th Street and Paulina will all have sections removed. This establishes even more crap context that will guide how the rest of the neighborhood and the IMD property develops. We had a clean slate to work with, and its now a lost opportunity.

Costco or IMD better pick up the tap for the loss of of the privitized meters they are replacing, as I assume they would be. The tax payers should not be subsidizing the loss of parking meters in exchange for free parking.

I know its a lease, but 20 years is a long time. Look at how much of the city has changed in 20 years, especially just east of the new Costco site.

Going through the zoning process, the developer will have had to identify somewhere else within that aldermanic ward to put new pay spots that this development takes away. Not familiar with whether the new meter zone is on the City's dime or on the developer's, but that's the way I believe it works.

EarlyBuyer · #**10246** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 3:57 AM**

Photos by EarlyBuyer 6/10/10-Lunchbreak

Not many tower cranes around town these days...good to see one!

harryc · #**10247** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 5:42 AM**

EB - Nice context and then zoom.

J_M_Tungsten · #**10248** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 12:27 PM**

What could they do with the plot of land between BCBS and Aqua? It seems so narrow to do much with it.

jpIllInoIs · #**10249** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 12:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by J_M_Tungsten

What could they do with the plot of land between BCBS and Aqua? It seems so narrow to do much with it.

Their are plans for an Aqua II, but it also has been mentioned as the site for a CPS school.

trvlr70 · #**10250** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 1:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Busy Bee

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Wait did someone use that one already?

What an eyesore! lol

J_M_Tungsten · #**10251** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 2:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by jpIllInoIs

Their are plans for an Aqua II, but it also has been mentioned as the site for a CPS school.

AQUA 2!!! What is that? any renderings?

Busy Bee · #**10252** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 3:19 PM**

South Works rendering I don't recall seeing before:

YoChicago

J_M_Tungsten · #**10253** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 3:27 PM**

^^^ Ahhhh the year 2050, I can't wait...

aic4ever · #**10254** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 3:57 PM**

Anybody know anything about the new MBC?

http://www.museum.tv/collectionssection.php?page=15

Busy Bee · #**10255** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 4:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by J_M_Tungsten

^^^ Ahhhh the year 2050, I can't wait...

If only we could transport it to Asia—it'd be built by 2015.

denizen467 · #**10256** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 9:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by aic4ever

Anybody know anything about the new MBC?

http://www.museum.tv/collectionssection.php?page=15

I think they are still hoping to finish it by 1993.

EarlyBuyer · #**10257** Posted **Jun 11, 2010, 11:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by harryc

EB - Nice context and then zoom.

Thanks harry.

Quote:

Originally Posted by J_M_Tungsten

AQUA 2!!! What is that? any renderings?

"Aqua 2" is a placeholder name some have assigned to the future building to occupy site "O" of the Lakeshore East master plan. Unless there's been a change in building development order, "Aqua 2/site O" is a long way down the road. The next proposed building for LSE is 375 East Wacker, which has yet to begin pre-construction marketing.

Chicago Shawn · #**10258** Posted **Jun 13, 2010, 2:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by aic4ever

Going through the zoning process, the developer will have had to identify somewhere else within that aldermanic ward to put new pay spots that this development takes away. Not familiar with whether the new meter zone is on the City's dime or on the developer's, but that's the way I believe it works.

Prior to the meter lease, the developer/ building owner would have to pay CDOT continuous compensation for any meters removed. Not sure if the meter lease changes things up. It would be difficult to find a new parking zone that large to convert to metered spaces, as all of the blocks on the 16 acre site are metered. IMD may have an unmetered area left that could be turned into payed parking, or I suppose they could also pave a surface lot on one of the empty blocks and meter it.

ardecila · #**10259** Posted **Jun 13, 2010, 5:06 AM**

Do people actually park in the metered spots in that surreal area of town? I've only seen people park along Paulina , and the other streets between Paulina/Ashland... the spots to the west of the Pink Line are always empty.

aic4ever · #**10260** Posted **Jun 13, 2010, 9:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chicago Shawn

Prior to the meter lease, the developer/ building owner would have to pay CDOT continuous compensation for any meters removed. Not sure if the meter lease changes things up. It would be difficult to find a new parking zone that large to convert to metered spaces, as all of the blocks on the 16 acre site are metered. IMD may have an unmetered area left that could be turned into payed parking, or I suppose they could also pave a surface lot on one of the empty blocks and meter it.

I have not been involved with anything beyond the relocation of a handful of meters within a ward. As far as 16 blocks worth of meters go, I have no idea!