CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7

[munchymunch]

That's the largest Planning Commission we've had since the Spire.

[i_am_hydrogen]

Ald. Reilly Has a Responsible Approach to Off-Street Parking
Streetsblog Chicago
Friday, November 6, 2015
by Steven Vance

When it comes to parking management in Chicago, there have been a couple of encouraging developments recently. In September, City Council passed a beefed-up revision of the transit-oriented development ordinance, which makes it easier than ever to build dense, parking-lite developments near train stations. And, recently, Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) made some very sensible statements about the fact that downtown buildings shouldn’t have tons of car spaces.

Read the rest here:
http://chi.streetsblog.org/2015/11/0...treet-parking/

[the urban politician]

^ I hope they don't go too far in limiting the food carts. Although I agree that they and Divvy Bike stations should remain off the Mag Mile

[J_M_Tungsten]

Today
Halsted/Lake

[HowardL]

Originally Posted by J_M_Tungsten

Today
Halsted/Lake

Man, I noticed that vista from the Mart today too.

It sorta blew my mind. In the 80s, Halsted was sooooooo far west mentally. It felt remote.

Now buildings in the Nearby Neighborhoods feel like a continuation of central Chicago. The building going up at Grand/Milwaukee/Halsted is doing the same job on my head.

These are good days.

[marothisu]

All of the Jewel at Clark & Division is almost gone and now there's fencing around Cedar Hotel (future Viceroy Hotel) and some work being done. Can't wait to watch both of these rise in the near future.

[Ned.B]

^^ I definitely would not want to be those folks on the 5th and 6th floor of Fulton House that have no exterior wall to their condo right now.

[J_M_Tungsten]

Originally Posted by HowardL

Man, I noticed that vista from the Mart today too.

It sorta blew my mind. In the 80s, Halsted was sooooooo far west mentally. It felt remote.

Now buildings in the Nearby Neighborhoods feel like a continuation of central Chicago. The building going up at Grand/Milwaukee/Halsted is doing the same job on my head.

These are good days.

Good days indeed. It is great to be surprised by all the new towers and their cranes popping up around town.

Today
4 E Elm


833 N Clark

[SamInTheLoop]

Originally Posted by Notyrview

Yeah, they really now how to work within the confines of VEing. Great revision.

Yes, but how can we be sure bKL is a great architecture firm? Couldn't it just be that the collective evidence we've seen in the form of their entire body of work could have been all dictated by their clients, in each case? We haven't seen their earliest designs for each of their projects - they could have all been awful, and were only iteratively and continually improved until the final product, at the explicit, constant hand-holding direction of their clients..........

Right? Riiiigggghhhttt.............

[ithakas]

Here are renderings of the South Loop tower on Wabash just north of Roosevelt (west side - not hotel on east):

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151...will-look-like

[george]

11/9

Grand & Milwaukee

[Skyguy_7]

I don't recall seeing this rendering of the Cermak and Wabash Hotel by SCB. Includes a nice little rendering of Marriott Marquis

[SamInTheLoop]

^^ Thanks for posting this rendering. It confuses me somewhat though, as far as the orientation of the towers in the background. That's the Lex, right? (in front of the Marriott Marquis) The Marriott Marquis tower is oriented n/s, but isn't the Lex oriented e/w (or is that just in my imagination?)?

[SamInTheLoop]

Originally Posted by ithakas

Here are renderings of the South Loop tower on Wabash just north of Roosevelt (west side - not hotel on east):

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151...will-look-like

Best part is that this is as-of-right!!! Fantastic! I wish we saw more of this dense as-of-right development around greater downtown, just because the NIMBYs can't do a damn thing about it!!! (except of course prompt inappropriate downzonings ) But absent that, it's great to see.............in a similar vein, I only wish a deal could be worked out for Roszak to buy that parking garage in Printer's Row and put up his awesome tower there......

[Skyguy_7]

Originally Posted by SamInTheLoop

^^ Thanks for posting this rendering. It confuses me somewhat though, as far as the orientation of the towers in the background. That's the Lex, right? (in front of the Marriott Marquis) The Marriott Marquis tower is oriented n/s, but isn't the Lex oriented e/w (or is that just in my imagination?)?

Looks accurate to me. Lex appears to be just a bit stubby in this rendering.

The proposal is situated at the NE corner of Wabash and Cermak. The single-story currency exchange and the building that houses The Shrine will be razed. 144 hotel keys.

[Steely Dan]

i moved the whole rent argument over to the general development thread, as it's more of a catch-all for general discussion than the highrise thread. please carry on over there.

[spyguy]

Hubbard and Wells

[Steely Dan]

^ i love the smell of river north parking lots biting the dust in the morning.

i really like that proposal.

[maru2501]

^for some reason the were re-blacktopping the lot that's under the L the last two days

doesn't exactly scream that this is imminent

[Randomguy34]

^ Well it's no the Plan Commission for next week, so it's still an active proposal