CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7

[harryc]

Aug 9








Food distribution to the needy - it's a Catholic thing.

[Steely Dan]

* moderator edit *

i moved all of the off topic posts to the chicago politics thread.

please continue the discussion there: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...213683&page=20

[harryc]

Aug 25

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Aug 28

[harryc]

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[harryc]

Aug 28

[go go white sox]

Originally Posted by KWILLSKYLINE

Oak park is turning into it's own mini city. Not that is hasn't before. I was up in brookfield yesterday and crowds are going out there. Any thoughts on if buisness' start going more suburb than city? I realize this is a generic question but just seeing the crowds yesterday from Brew at the Zoo all the way to Lagrange...i could see it.

It really is the downtown has changed drastically in just a few years. Another 12 story development has just broke ground right on the other side of the tracks from The Vantage. Also an 18 story down the street is in the approval phase.


https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/2/1/...ment-1000-lake

[harryc]

Aug 26
Foundations sunk - piles pounded in - ready for digging.

[harryc]

Aug 23

[Randomguy34]

Foundation permits issued for the hotel at 110 W. Huron. Here's a refresher of what the project looks like.

[KWILLSKYLINE]

Anyone know when cna is planning the big move? My thought was spring 18'?

[emathias]

Originally Posted by Randomguy34

Foundation permits issued for the hotel at 110 W. Huron. Here's a refresher of what the project looks like.

WOW! I thought that had fallen through. I'm kinda surprised Reilly is allowing it, considering how terrible the two existing hotels on that block muck of the traffic on Huron. Over the weekend I was waiting for a Lyft coming through that block and, no exaggeration, it took them *eight* light changes to travel that one block because the valets were being so incompetent about clearing the street.

I mean, I'll be glad to be down one more surface lot in the area, but I can't help but imagine it'll make traffic on the block/intersection even worse. (and I don't even own a car, so I'm not normally a traffic complainer)

EDIT: Full sketches and elevations here. Hotel entrance will, indeed, be on Huron, adding to the cluster-****ery.

[harryc]

Originally Posted by emathias

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because the valets were being so incompetent about clearing the street.

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Those streets BELONG to the Valet services - as do the alleys, and lower Carol st.

Seriously if you really want to deal with traffic -- in a time long long ago, in a city called Chicago, Valets were not allowed to park on public streets, they were required to have off street parking for all cars. That was a good law.

Have your alderthing get a few of those "not police" parking enforcers to start handing out tickets. They are non-union and pretty cheap.

[harryc]

Aug 23

[harryc]

Aug 23

[PKDickman]

Originally Posted by harryc

- in a time long long ago, in a city called Chicago, Valets were not allowed to park on public streets, they were required to have off street parking for all cars. That was a good law.

That's not true at all. They were always allowed to park on any main thoroughfare designated as a snow route, and had no requirement for any off street parking until Natarus insisted on 10% in 97. Reilly boosted it to 15% in 2015.
As far as I can tell there is no requirement to actually use that percentage or, for that matter, that the leased off street spaces be any where near the licensed location.

[harryc]

Originally Posted by PKDickman

That's not true at all. They were always allowed to park on any main thoroughfare designated as a snow route, and had no requirement for any off street parking until Natarus insisted on 10% in 97. Reilly boosted it to 15% in 2015.
As far as I can tell there is no requirement to actually use that percentage or, for that matter, that the leased off street spaces be any where near the licensed location.

Well possibly that would be a place to start.

[SolarWind]

August 23, 2017

[Bonsai Tree]

^Just take a long, hard look at that tower...

[SolarWind]

August 24, 2017