CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7 - Page 644

emathias · #**12861** Posted **Oct 28, 2018, 6:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by BonoboZill4

To seriously answer your question, awaiting an anchor tenant. They still seem to want to build there, but the site is just getting beat up on by more prime locations, like WPS, the old General Growth Building, and Union Station.

Good thing they tore down three CME building ...

Zapatan · #**12862** Posted **Oct 28, 2018, 8:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by BonoboZill4

To seriously answer your question, awaiting an anchor tenant. They still seem to want to build there, but the site is just getting beat up on by more prime locations, like WPS, the old General Growth Building, and Union Station.

Oh okay, thanks, it'll be great when all of those sites are filled. Hopefully they end up more than just boring 700 foot boxes.

left of center · #**12863** Posted **Oct 28, 2018, 10:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by emathias

Good thing they tore down three CME building ...

That was a crying shame. I was beyond livid when that happened back in '02. The building was functional and over 90% leased at the time. And its been an empty lot ever since. Idiots...

marothisu · #**12864** Posted **Oct 30, 2018, 8:22 PM**

That proposed office tower where The Mid is/was in West Loop has a zoning application out now. 18 stories, 50 parking spaces. Office, retail, and commercial. 11.5 minimum FAR.

I'll post pictures later of the drawings unless someone does it first.

Randomguy34 · #**12865** Posted **Oct 30, 2018, 8:23 PM**

The new exterior elevator for the Aon Center will make it 1195 ft tall.......so now it's taller than Vista Tower.....
Source: https://chicago.legistar.com/Legisla...vanced&Search=

800-824 W Fulton Mkt/300-314 N Halsted St/801-825 W Wayman St/301-315 N Green St
326 ft | office building | 50 parking

Source: https://chicago.legistar.com/Legisla...vanced&Search=

left of center · #**12866** Posted **Oct 30, 2018, 10:36 PM**

Nice! At 326 ft, its really going to stand out in its setting. Really wish they could have reused some of those brick facades on the lower floors thought. I don't want the West Loop to lose its red brick character.

BonoboZill4 · #**12867** Posted **Oct 30, 2018, 11:19 PM**

I'm intrigued to see what this one looks like in renderings. The drawings tell me it could be really cool or way too busy

kolchak · #**12868** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 1:09 AM**

eight eleven uptown -

spyguy · #**12869** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 1:16 AM**

I like the crossbracing. Should fit in with all of the other nearby SOM/Gensler towers proposed and maybe provide a little bit of a peak:

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ardecila · #**12870** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 3:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by BonoboZill4

I'm intrigued to see what this one looks like in renderings. The drawings tell me it could be really cool or way too busy

Looks like the setbacks along the Fulton side are in a switchback/zigzag configuration. Even with all the tricks, though, I think it will overpower the scale of Fulton...

marothisu · #**12871** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 3:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by ardecila

Looks like the setbacks along the Fulton side are in a switchback/zigzag configuration. Even with all the tricks, though, I think it will overpower the scale of Fulton...

If you take Fulton Market as a whole then sure, but this area (specifically Halsted St) is going to have a nice collection of high rises.....

352 N Union (next to K2): 450 feet
K2: 367 feet
Arkadia: 365 feet
This new building: 326 feet
The Parker (existing): 321 feet
360 N Green: 243 feet
330 N Green: ~232 feet
Gr333n: 220 feet

As long as Gr333n and its siblings are up, I don't think this thing is going to feel like it's towering over as much - and especially if 352 N Union gets built too. If anything's going to tower over the neighborhood and even these buildings, it would be the 2 buildings Related has proposed.

10023 · #**12872** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 10:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by left of center

Nice! At 326 ft, its really going to stand out in its setting. Really wish they could have reused some of those brick facades on the lower floors thought. I don't want the West Loop to lose its red brick character.

This. I’m not a proponent of destroying good brick building stock. A more creative approach to adaptive re-use would be better. It will be a real shame if the West Loop turns into River North II.

That and the “country music restaurant” sounds fucking awful. That kind of thing signals the coming death knell of the West Loop as a dining destination. Put that shit over by Navy Pier for the tourists.

https://chicago.curbed.com/2018/10/3...pment-thor-som

Via Chicago · #**12873** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 12:55 PM**

This was the original adaptive reuse plan. Highy disappointed this isn't what's going forward

There's no way this new design dosent hugely overpower that fine grained intersection and the gateway to a historic district that the existing building currently reflects

the urban politician · #**12874** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 1:19 PM**

I disagree with the “I want the West Loop to be a niche neighborhood” crowd.

I don’t think it necessarily needs 50 story canyons or anything , and I think we can avoid River North’s design mistakes, but I’m all in on River Northification.

More density, more shopping choices, more foot traffic, perhaps a few public garages, more more more.

You can still have fine dining while appealing to the masses.

Via Chicago · #**12875** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 1:25 PM**

i dont care about density or being a "niche" area or the tenants for that matter. i care about honoring and preserving the 100 year old architecturally significant buildings the district set out to protect. the adaptive re-use plan would have perfectly fit in with the spirit of this neighborhood, and would have provided plenty of additional office/retail. you can put whatever you want into a shell. once the shell is gone, kinda misses the point. theres plenty of other nearby vacant lots where a building such as this could go.

the urban politician · #**12876** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 1:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Via Chicago

i dont care about density or being a "niche" area. i care about honoring and preserving the 100 year old architecturally significant buildings the district set out to protect. the adaptive re-use plan would have perfectly fit in with the spirit of this neighborhood, and would have provided plenty of additional office/retail.

I definitely agree that preservation can happen without reducing the potential of this area

maru2501 · #**12877** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 2:06 PM**

I would agree that brick should be saved in there where possible, although up around Gr333n we are talking about empty space mostly

What I am waiting for is the Damen L stop and hopefully some absorption of surface lots near the UC

Near North Resident · #**12878** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 2:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Randomguy34

The new exterior elevator for the Aon Center will make it 1195 ft tall.......so now it's taller than Vista Tower.....
Source: https://chicago.legistar.com/Legisla...vanced&Search=

page 47 of this pdf https://chicago.legistar.com/View.as...2-91DEC67F0091

has pics, what a find randomguy

also diagram only shows 1184' tall

harryc · #**12879** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 3:10 PM**

Oct 5

And the parking drama increases - luxury hotels really f up traffic flow.

Randomguy34 · #**12880** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 3:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Near North Resident

page 47 of this pdf https://chicago.legistar.com/View.as...2-91DEC67F0091

has pics, what a find randomguy

also diagram only shows 1184' tall

The diagram doesn't go up to the top of the elevator. The zoning request form in the document lists the height as 1195'