Would love to see this happen!

RiverLine - TownHomes ?
 

Feb 18

"Soil testing"
Chicago | Riverline by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr
they were filling it back in when I was there.

Green Pizza
 

Chicago | Roots Pizza by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

318 N Carpenter
 

Feb 20

Chicago | 318 N Carpenter by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr


Feb 22

Chicago | 318 N Carpenter by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

Chicago | 318 N Carpenter by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

Lake and Halsted- N W - 804 W Lake
 

The old bar closed before finishing or opening the new deck. I would have loved a roof top bar at the level of the El tracks. Would have been like the old days at Dakin / Sheridan.

Chicago | Lake and Halsted by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

so why are the river north mansion historic protections necessary?

Most of them aren't necessary, as the buildings are sandwiched in between larger structures.

The only reason that historic district even saw the light of day is because Brendan Reilly wanted to put the nail in the coffin of the proposed tower at Wabash/Superior.

More renderings, including one showing off a nice street wall filling in along Milwaukee

https://www.lipeproperty.com/1122-w-chicago

Not everything is replaced by a highrise. See Oak Street as well as other areas on the near north side where building facades have been "modernized" or replaced by similarly small scale retail buildings.

This is great news and hopefully just the start.

Couple blocks away these are set to rise:
https://i.postimg.cc/sx0qRTYk/Screen...7-42-32-PM.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/gj0Q5CZy/Screen...7-42-03-PM.jpg

^^^ Just glad something is taking the spots east of the Hudson apartment complex. Surprised the little building in the middle is surviving though haha.

That area has changed so much. Next luxury high rises all over and a couple offices.

Chicago needs about 100 of these, if not more. City has plenty of low rise and a strong high rise count. Mid rise is lacking sorely. I really like these and want more

^ yeah, and maybe that becomes the go-to filler as the boom starts to ebb. Still money to be made

yeah, chicago has this weird duality where it seems like you can either build 4 stories, or 40 stories, but not so much 10 story stuff.

^ Elevator economics—4 is as high as you can go before they are required, right? Once you have to pay for those you might as well spread that cost out as much as you can. In residential at least.

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1001 Fulton

The city's building codes enforce full high-rise standards for buildings over 80', causing a big step change in construction costs at 80'. 8 stories in 80' is possible but very tight, so you see a lot of buildings up to 6/7 stories under the low-rise standards, and then another group of buildings at 12 stories and up under the high-rise standards where the added unit count starts to balance out the higher construction cost.

These 9-story buildings are probably between 90' and 110', so they are solidly in that no-go zone.

It's not really about whether you have an elevator or not, but about what kind of construction type, what kind of sprinkler system, etc. Chicago has adopted a new building code, too, so the calculus behind these decisions is changing.

^ aren't elevators required above 4? I can't speak broadly to construction incentives, but elevator costs/maintenance (and more recently a cab replacement) is routinely one of the biggest costs to my building's annual budget.

The 4 then 10+ dichotomy makes even more sense to me if there are large cost considerations at 4 then again ~8 floors.

Even at 4 floors elevator buildings make sense because the units command a higher price and sell faster. 3 floors is typically the limit most people purchasing want to walk up.

I've seen 4-unit elevator buildings.

No thanks on that replacement/maintenance cost. Or waiting to be rescued when the thing acts up.

Easier when they are double loaded 8 unit 4 story buildings for sure.