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Wrong thread Dan haha

I'm losin' it

I see it got added to the boom rundown thread list on page 1, but it is listed as 'under construction'

that's a mistake, i'll change it right now.

Bringing in the big toys this morning.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4jTNFwW8AAsBoh.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4jTN5oWcAIQUaP.jpg

^ it looks like we'll be able to properly move thIs to U/C very soon.

as always, thanks for the pics.

hell yeah dan, thanks for the update! I see dancing nanners coming soon.

Great update Schell. Hope you don't mind, but I sent the top pic to my buddy at Stevenson, so you might see it up on their next billboard. :cheers:

Not for nothing, but Stevenson can't use the photo unless Dan grants permission. If they are going to use it on a billboard (or any other brand promotion media), they should pay for the rights.

^I'd agree with you, if my comment weren't tongue in cheek! My pal appreciated the photo but I had him assure me that we will not see it on any billboards.

My first billboard! This is awesome!

Word. Send them an invoice, ha. Billboards are big usage $$

If drilling begins before another tower finishes construction, then we will have 50 active skyscrapers under construction in the city.

Has that ever happened before?

Does your count include Wicker Park Connection? That wasn't on page 1.

Damn that is awesome. Was driving home down Eastbound Kennedy this afternoon, and just looking across the Chicago landscape seeing so many cranes was amazing!

What a time to be alive. in Chicago.

No. Which means we are already at 50

4 E Elm, Vue 53, the U of C dorms, and Nich 405 are all complete. There are probably a few others on the boom rundown list that are also complete. So we still have a bit to go before reaching 50 under construction.

Lot looks very small all of a sudden

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4oeSJ7WEAAf3ID.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4oeT4_W8AAkMT5.jpg

That looks like a caisson from here

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4wg75qVMAIsouq.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4wg9IEVYAEhpmV.jpg

Move it on up to u/c!

Excellent! This seems like its dragged on as long as River Point. Imagine how many pages this thread would be had it been started way back when this project was announced. Daniel, please do not move for the next two years!

Gonna need you to talk to my wife about that...

:runaway:

Dan, you dont happen to have an extra web cam lying around do ya? Haha. Thats is the perfect view.

WTF is going on guys? CASE is in the dirt, yet not a single banana to be found. Have we forgotten our struggles of 2009-2012? For shame. These are the days of celebration!


:banana:

:dancing:

In the words of Sarah Palin: "DRILL BABY! DRILL!"

:cowboy:

February 16, 2017

Yes! Let's pressure the Kennedy and surround the drivers to remind them where they are! Maybe soon we can start seeing more dream proposals for capping the expressway in place for a park, maybe some day it can be a reality

http://gizmodo.com/five-cities-turni...rks-1259568561 :frog:

Also, Curbed article on this project: http://chicago.curbed.com/2017/2/17/...d-construction

Apparently, Polizzotto is involved here as well.

It's a parking garage, but am I crazy to think this gets a lot of things right? There are a couple of floors of active uses, big sidewalks, and the tower itself sits to the side of it rather than on top.

Feb 26




Feb 27

http://www.gazettechicago.com/index/...nd-congestion/

A somewhat informative and hilarious read about west loop NIMBYS.

The best response is to continue to ignore the community, build more towers, and just ram in more density till the NIMBYs all give up on their utopia and move to North Center

So either Ms. Wilson is living in two condos at once, or she's renting it out. While she's happily making money off of "transient apartment dwellers" she doesn't want any more of 'those' people.
Hypocrite.

fyp

03/20/17

https://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a...D720/ry%3D480/

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I think the secret sauce is elevating the parking levels on pilotis above the sidewalk. By providing two levels of active use (office? amenities? hotel meeting space?) above the ground floor retail, it doesn't have the same dead River North feeling you get when the second floor is all blank. You don't really see blank walls (or cars) until the fourth floor, and you have to crane your neck to even see it.

MiLa had some similar moves, building a tall glassy "chandelier atrium" on the Michigan Ave side in front of the podium. 111 S Wacker did it too, in more dramatic fashion.

Architects know how to solve the podium problem, and the answer is not "stick the parking underground". But it usually comes with extra cost to the developer. I'd like to see an optional design review process that developers could undertake that would encourage these types of architectural solutions, with the carrot of density bonuses. Unfortunately Rahm decided it was better to just charge developers in cash rather than in better architecture.

Any major movement on this lately, or still just digging? seems to have been quiet.

I hate to burst the bubble here, but with the redesign the active uses above the first floor will be gone. This is really going to be an old school parking blob :yuck:

I used to park my car for many years first in the parking lot on the nec of Halsted and Madison but then the high rise with the former Dominicks was built. So I moved to this lot which was infamous as being the site in the early 90's where televisions were being thrown from the hotel next to this site (south). I believe it was some disgruntled basketball player (former DePaul player.....could be wrong) who was mentally ill and lost it by throwing things from his hotel room on a top floor onto the cars on this lot. My car was not there that day but actually its condition at the time would not have probably mattered. Glad to see this building going up. The comment on page one about the Kennedy Expressway being Canyonized (sorry if spelling is poor) is a great observation. This will be a great addition to the skyline.

Was that former DePaul players name Vince Neil or Nikki Sixx by any chance?

Not sure if anyone would get that joke. It was worth a try.

April 17, 2017





^ 625 W Adams under construction in the background

crane installation underway

Woo Woo! Which area is the crane going up at?

Building Up Chicago has lots of pictures of the crane going up:

Link

04/28/17

https://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a...D720/ry%3D480/

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Future towers curvature visible
https://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a...D720/ry%3D480/

May 8, 2017

May 15, 2017