CHICAGO | General Developments - Page 2349

jc5680 · #**46961** Posted **Apr 5, 2020, 7:24 PM**

Father and Son Plaza

Tcmetro · #**46962** Posted **Apr 5, 2020, 7:55 PM**

Massive change for North Avenue. Looks great!

harryc · #**46963** Posted **Apr 5, 2020, 9:39 PM**

April 5

Chicago | Rubschlager Building - Rush University Medical Center by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

PKDickman · #**46964** Posted **Apr 6, 2020, 2:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by harryc

Now on what was already a vacant lot in 2018....

It wasn't always a vacant lot. They tore this down to build it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9102...7i13312!8i6656

harryc · #**46965** Posted **Apr 6, 2020, 2:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by PKDickman

It wasn't always a vacant lot. They tore this down to build it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9102...7i13312!8i6656

Thank you - I was going by my photos of this - now removed - the vacant lot next door still vacant ?

Dec 2018

Handro · #**46966** Posted **Apr 6, 2020, 3:09 PM**

I don't have many details but apparently my company is bidding on the redevelopment of the Francis Cabrini row homes just north of Chicago Ave into a new mixed use neighborhood, with a goal to break ground within the next year or two. Like I said, I don't have many details (learned all this in a casual conversation) but I hadn't heard about this redevelopment plan before?

ardecila · #**46967** Posted **Apr 6, 2020, 3:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Handro

I don't have many details but apparently my company is bidding on the redevelopment of the Francis Cabrini row homes just north of Chicago Ave into a new mixed use neighborhood, with a goal to break ground within the next year or two. Like I said, I don't have many details (learned all this in a casual conversation) but I hadn't heard about this redevelopment plan before?

Those rowhomes are half-empty and half-renovated. Interesting to see them focus on a tear-down when the Cabrini area and CHA already have so much open land. There's a plan for the area west of Target on Division, there's a plan for the old Near North High School site, there's all the vacant blocks to the east of the rowhomes, and ParkSide is still not finished.

PKDickman · #**46968** Posted **Apr 6, 2020, 3:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by harryc

Thank you - I was going by my photos of this - now removed - the vacant lot next door still vacant ?

Yeah, still vacant. Same company (Wilmot) that built on the Carbit lot owns it and the now demolished 8 flat on the corner of Richmond. So we can expect more of the same.

It used to be one of my favorite blocks
For thirty years, I drove past there a couple of times a week to visit my folks.
Now that they're gone, I still drive by on the way to my factory in Hanson Park.

It just depresses me now.

r18tdi · #**46969** Posted **Apr 6, 2020, 7:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by spyguy

Around the corner at 320 W Huron

So this is what's replacing the failed 312 Huron condo high-rise? Pretty underwhelming.

harryc · #**46970** Posted **Apr 6, 2020, 10:21 PM**

April 5

SIGSEGV · #**46971** Posted **Apr 6, 2020, 11:00 PM**

Sucks to be the apartments opening right now:

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/resi...out-apartments

But... glad this is happening.

harryc · #**46972** Posted **Apr 7, 2020, 2:44 AM**

April 5

Chicago | Viceroy Hotel by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

Handro · #**46973** Posted **Apr 7, 2020, 2:40 PM**

^ thanks for keep us updated while we don't leave our homes! You should get essential service designation!

ardecila · #**46974** Posted **Apr 7, 2020, 3:10 PM**

^ This is a very solid addition to that corner. It's not flashy but it's everything a good urban apartment building should be... no parking podiums, scale appropriate to the wide street, great massing. I wish we had a few of these at every major intersection and transit hub.

r18tdi · #**46975** Posted **Apr 7, 2020, 6:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by ardecila

^ This is a very solid addition to that corner. It's not flashy but it's everything a good urban apartment building should be... no parking podiums, scale appropriate to the wide street, great massing. I wish we had a few of these at every major intersection and transit hub.

Amen. And it's affordable housing, which has even slimmer profit margins. Market-rate developers should take note.