CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7 - Page 452

k1052 · #**9021** Posted **Sep 14, 2017, 2:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by rlw777

Interesting. The location is pretty vague... Anyone know if this is the Coyne college site?

It is.

Randomguy34 · #**9022** Posted **Sep 14, 2017, 2:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by rlw777

Interesting. The location is pretty vague... Anyone know if this is the Coyne college site?

This was mentioned in the General Developments thread, but it seems to be the lot across the street from the Coyne College site. This project is going to be more than 500,000 sqft so hopefully it becomes a high rise. This site is in a PMD and the city is planning to repeal the PMD east of Ogden Ave and revert them to their prior zoning category by then end of November. The area east will then be annexed into downtown, and the site can then be upzoned to DS or DX. In a couple of months, Sterling Bay will have to upzone in order to build something this big.

Info: https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/e...-use-plan.html

bgsrand · #**9023** Posted **Sep 14, 2017, 2:43 PM**

https://chicago.curbed.com/chicago-d...-375-west-loop

Not sure if this belongs here or in Gen. Dev thread, but another 175K of office being called for at 375 N. Morgan. Developer is Latsko Interest.

ardecila · #**9024** Posted **Sep 14, 2017, 6:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Randomguy34

This was mentioned in the General Developments thread, but it seems to be the lot across the street from the Coyne College site. This project is going to be more than 500,000 sqft so hopefully it becomes a high rise. This site is in a PMD and the city is planning to repeal the PMD east of Ogden Ave and revert them to their prior zoning category by then end of November. The area east will then be annexed into downtown, and the site can then be upzoned to DS or DX. In a couple of months, Sterling Bay will have to upzone in order to build something this big.

Info: https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/e...-use-plan.html

Yes and no, there will still be a ban on residential uses north of Lake. The city has a higher focus on office use for this area which can co-exist a little better with light manufacturing and meatpacking.

Ace Hotel got approved north of Lake thanks to Sterling Bay, and Hoxton Hotel is a go at Fulton/Halsted, so I guess hotels are acceptable but residential is not.

I wish they would do something to address the at-grade rail line going into Union Station. Probably easiest just to put it up on an embankment like the UP-W line.

Randomguy34 · #**9025** Posted **Sep 14, 2017, 6:37 PM**

^ You are correct. Apologies for not emphasizing that residential is still banned. I figure part of the reason why there's no hotel ban is to accommodate office workers visiting for business matters.

I know SOM had a pipedream of decking over the at-grade rail with offices. I can probably find a couple renderings of it when I'm back home.

the urban politician · #**9026** Posted **Sep 14, 2017, 7:32 PM**

^ I don't know, I like at-grade rail. Reminds people that you're in Chicago, not in some pansy-assed Sunbelt city

k1052 · #**9027** Posted **Sep 14, 2017, 7:36 PM**

I'd settle for Metra buying new locomotives that don't blast soot all over this part of the city (not to mention inside Union Station) morning and night.

HomrQT · #**9028** Posted **Sep 14, 2017, 8:01 PM**

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^ I don't know, I like at-grade rail. Reminds people that you're in Chicago, not in some pansy-assed Sunbelt city

Many major cities in Europe have at-grade trains terminating at central stations in their cores. Chicago is good the way it is in this regard.

LouisVanDerWright · #**9029** Posted **Sep 14, 2017, 11:55 PM**

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Many major cities in Europe have at-grade trains terminating at central stations in their cores. Chicago is good the way it is in this regard.

Chicago's grade separation is literally city porn. I still lose my shit every time I drive through Hubbard's cave.

HomrQT · #**9030** Posted **Sep 15, 2017, 4:28 AM**

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Chicago's grade separation is literally city porn. I still lose my shit every time I drive through Hubbard's cave.

Hubbard's Cave is one of those litmus tests into how well someone really knows the infrastructure of Chicago. The multilayer system of this city is truly remarkable. Just take the multiple levels of Wacker or the Pedway system. How many city centers worldwide can brag about something like that?

ardecila · #**9031** Posted **Sep 15, 2017, 6:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by Randomguy34

^ You are correct. Apologies for not emphasizing that residential is still banned. I figure part of the reason why there's no hotel ban is to accommodate office workers visiting for business matters.

I know SOM had a pipedream of decking over the at-grade rail with offices. I can probably find a couple renderings of it when I'm back home.

I mean, it wouldn't kill someone to walk from a hotel on Randolph to an office building on Fulton.

Personally, I would not want my expensive sleep at a boutique hotel interrupted by trucks unloading chicken thighs and back bacon at 5am.

I think the decking scheme was by Brininstool/Lynch, unless you know of another one. Building offices over the tracks would actually make the traffic problem worse, unless every street is elevated (and the renderings didn't seem to show that). Elevating the tracks seems easier, it's only about 1/2 mile of new structure between Ogden and Peoria.

10023 · #**9032** Posted **Sep 15, 2017, 8:48 AM**

Hotel guests also don't complain about local noise because they're in and out (especially hotel guests at an Ace or Hoxton. They are the local noise.)

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Many major cities in Europe have at-grade trains terminating at central stations in their cores. Chicago is good the way it is in this regard.

They usually do a quite good job of hiding it from the street, however.