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Originally Posted by Ned.B
^^I don't know why that rendering of the Jeweler's Building shows restoring the north 2/3 of the storefront then slapping some plain limestone around the building entrance, especially when a previous restoration attempt already recreated the bottom half of the south two columns. Although the rendering appears to date from April of last year or earlier, so hopefully it was merely conceptual.
As far as residential versus hotel, the upper 4 floors on this building total roughly 32,000 sf. Assuming roughly 25,000 sf net area subtracting the exterior walls, 2 stairwells, 2 elevators and 100' of corridor, you get an average unit size of 650 sf. That does sound like residential. Though I can't imagine them being that desirable when 70% of the units face into a 10' alley. This building made more sense as a boutique hotel in that regard.
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Yeah the rendering definitely doesn't fully restore the Sullivan design, but it's far closer than the Iwan Ries botch job that exists now.
More info... apparently one of the original cast iron storefront columns is now in the Smithsonian:
https://www.urbanremainschicago.com/...um-collection/