CHICAGO | General Developments

[Kumdogmillionaire]

How are they going to keep birds from shitting all over the top of that Applestore. I've already seen seagulls and pigeons chilling up there in the evenings the last couple weeks. Seems like it'll be a nightmare to keep clean. In fact even in one of those pictures it looks like you can see bird crap all over the roof!

[Mr Downtown]

Originally Posted by LaSalle.St.Station

US Steel should have donated the land to the city to continue adding on to Chicago's lake front park system.

Thanks to Friends of the Parks, a 400-foot strip along the lake edge are already under the control of the Park District.

Unfortunately, because the land is made from slag, it can't easily be dredged for lagoons or plantings needing deep roots. And because it's a 10-foot drop into 40-foot-deep water, it won't easily be turned into bathing beaches, either. Maybe that's where Tiger Woods should put his new golf course.

[LouisVanDerWright]

^^^ Thanks for FOTP? Or do you mean "thanks to the fact that there is no way in hell the city would approve any new use for this land without reasonable lakefront park/access concessions"?

[Mister Uptempo]

Originally Posted by Via Chicago

i do like the idea that the area would potentially be integrated with the factory that builds it in the first place, and could serve as almost a model village for what they can do. assuming this actually gets off the ground though, i think it remains to be seen how high the quality of the design will be. the renderings look nice, but at the same time id be more afraid this is more akin to what we'd wind up with

A time-lapse video of the construction of that building can be found here. It wouldn't embed in the post.

I'm curious as to the foundation system used on these buildings. It consists of a series of 6 - 7 foot micropiles(?) that are driven into the ground. A steel grid frame is fastened onto the micropiles and that serves as the foundation.

Has this been done in Chicago before?


img src - barcelonahousingsystems.com

One of the micropiles - looks like an overgrown deck screw...


The back side of the building, showing the frame that the building rests upon...

img src - facebook.com

[Mr Downtown]

Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

^^^ Thanks for FOTP? Or do you mean "thanks to the fact that there is no way in hell the city would approve any new use for this land without reasonable lakefront park/access concessions"?

Thanks to FotP, it's 400 feet rather than 250 (IIRC), and owned by the Park District for a decade now rather than a vague promise to maybe do something in the future—like we got in the North Branch plan.

[Via Chicago]

Originally Posted by Mr Downtown

Thanks to Friends of the Parks, a 400-foot strip along the lake edge are already under the control of the Park District.

Unfortunately, because the land is made from slag, it can't easily be dredged for lagoons or plantings needing deep roots. And because it's a 10-foot drop into 40-foot-deep water, it won't easily be turned into bathing beaches, either. Maybe that's where Tiger Woods should put his new golf course.

except Harborside is basically right there. honestly not seeing where all this demand for more high priced golf courses is going to come from, esp with the glut the chicago region has and the decrease in play coming off the 90s/00s boom

[LouisVanDerWright]

The BHS methods don't appear to differ significantly from the prefab panel systems used on many TOD projects like the L, the Western or that one on Haddon. They come in panels and are slapped up by cranes. Then interior and exterior fit out occurs. It just appears that the BHS buildings have significantly lower quality of materials. Also I know the Haddon project doesn't even require cassions and sits directly on spread footings which would seem even cheaper than those giant screws.

[the urban politician]

The Tribune is announcing that GGP is moving its HQ to the Apparel Center

[VKChaz]

Originally Posted by Via Chicago

mix in a century of institutional (as well as personal) racism as well

Sure, but my point is that specifically with regard to land use, it was economically very easy to disregard large swaths of land. Such factors have varied greatly between markets.

[gallo]

TOD proposed at 3300 N Clark - 170 units 15 spaces

[Rizzo]

^ wow, that's some decent density. Will replace a 1-story building sold by city colleges because of consolidations.

[Randomguy34]

I'm counting 12 floors, so looks like this building is a high rise (and a pretty dope one)

[r18tdi]

Originally Posted by gallo

TOD proposed at 3300 N Clark - 170 units 15 spaces

I like this a lot. Any word on the architect or developer?

[BuildThemTaller]

Originally Posted by gallo

TOD proposed at 3300 N Clark - 170 units 15 spaces

Wow, that's pretty cool! I do wonder about the impending Belmont Flyover of the Brown Line. I recall reading that several buildings along the tracks would need to be torn down as a result of that project. Does this thing have to wait for the CTA to get its ducks in order before it gets approved?

[gallo]

No, this is not on one of the CTA impacted blocks

[the urban politician]

Nice proposal! Belongs on page 1 of the compilation thread I would say

[k1052]

Originally Posted by Randomguy34

^ Wow, it sure took them a while to get this building started. In case anyone forgot what this building will look like, here's a rendering:


Shapack Partners 801-811 W. Fulton Market

A crew is placing concrete barriers along Halsted and Fulton for this today. Parking lot clear of anybody but worker vehicles. Presume the heavy equipment will be showing up soon.

[SolarWind]

August 3, 2017



^ Parking lot east of the former Coyne College site

Office project planned for Coyne College’s former Fulton Market campus

[SolarWind]

August 3, 2017

[marothisu]

Items on the August 2017 Zoning Board meeting:

1) 128 S Laflin (Monroe & Laflin). 52 units, 4 stories. Very bland looking.

Curbed article:
https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/7/27...ump-apartments

Site:
https://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/us/128-s-laflin

2) 1665 N Milwaukee Ave (Milwaukee & ~ Wabansia). 6 stories with 32 efficiency units and ground floor retail:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/16...!4d-87.6792295