^It says they are combining operations at a plant in rural Ontario and keeping company HQ and R&D in Chicago at the Merch Mart.
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919 on Fulton - 919 W Fulton Market
March 19, 2024
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812 W Adams
March 19, 2024
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https://www.chicagobusiness.com/comm...sidential-site
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^ I bet CMK buys it and puts up two 19-story boxes.
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^ well yeah.
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919 on Fulton - 919 W Fulton Market
March 25, 2024
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https://www.costar.com/article/19781...s-on-the-scent
Closing Chicago Chocolate Factory Known for Sweet Aromas Puts Developers on the Scent Blommer Facility in the River West Neighborhood To Be Sold After May By Ryan Ori CoStar News March 26, 2024 | 4:10 P.M. Quote:
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Thanks - I thought announced they were moving from here a long while back and then I never heard anything again.
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Construction permits issued for 3951 N Wayne, 31 units. There's been a midrise mini-boom in the city the past year, probably because they're easier to get financing at the moment.
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I would love to see them build a new factory in another part of the city or suburbs, but they already have a few factories elsewhere. We'll see what they do on that front but business-wise this makes actual sense to me what they're doing given the skyrocketing property values in that area. |
Lincoln Park / Uptown infill
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Concrete pour going on for this one. This is the view from Cleveland, so one of the single family homes. 5035 N Sheridan https://i.postimg.cc/6BRv2LSB/IMG-2174.jpg?dl=1 BTW I hope these projects aren’t too small to post here. Just was happy to see some developments while I’m here touring apartments for my move (the name is misleading, I don’t live in Pullman). After I move I plan to use my drone to get some pics of the 400 N Lakeshore Drive site! |
A 24 unit cube is proposed for 1055 W Diversey. Not sure how I feel about the design
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^I actually don't mind it
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Prefer what's existing, but not opposed to the proposed. Would be better one block west :D
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Success or failure of the kind of design of this proposal rests wholly on the material execution, IMO, since fine differences between planes and the subtleties of the brickwork are most of what's driving the aesthetic value of the building. I think the concept is cool in an early-50s way, but if any party along the path to completion cheaps out, it's not gonna be pretty... The version on the developer's website is a little more appealing to me: https://www.contemporaryconceptsinc....hrkptzksi6mry4 It has some different bonds interspersed in the larger expanses of masonry that lend verticality and help it balance better with the fenestration pattern. |
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they're cutting the retail space by half: "will replace a pair of existing two-story commercial buildings with 18,960 square feet of retail space...The new ground floor will hold approximately 9,900 square feet of retail space instead." So more housing density -- "210 residential units [!!] made up of 90 studios, 43 junior one-bedrooms, 58 one-bedrooms, and 19 two-bedroom layouts" -- but also much less retail. Housing can go either on main streets like Belmont or on side streets, but retail is only allowed on the main streets. The end result is that developments like this kind of inevitably push out organic retail. Would be nice to have the Jane Jacobs-style retail around the corner off the main streets to allow for more variety. |
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