CHICAGO | Boom rundown - everything over 12 floors. v5 - Page 253

aaron38 · #**5041** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 2:15 AM**

Vacation days + warm weather + new camera = trip downtown.
Act 1: View from a Train

Good 'ol Metra

The Clare, principally

Trump

300 N LaSalle

Silver Tower's crane

Kingsbury Plaza

Down the River

SolarWind · #**5042** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 3:57 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan in Chicago

Status updates for the main list:

- Avenue East is completed.

December 26, 2007

colemonkee · #**5043** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 4:26 AM**

Avenue East turned out really nice!

aaron38 · #**5044** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 6:15 AM**

^^^From Mich Ave it has this interesting splash of orange. I just wish the base was better. It's pretty plain.

honte · #**5045** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 2:24 PM**

^ Agreed, but I like the base on St. Clare a lot. For a less expensive product with integrated parking, I think it turned out really well.

Overall, Avenue East has exceeded all of my expectations, and by a wide margin (I detested the renders). This is a good thing, since I know someone who worked on the design...

TowerGuy37 · #**5046** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 2:33 PM**

WOW!!! amazing what a little color can do to make a building otherwise bland more interesting and pop!!!!!!!!!! I really like the way this building turned out. WE need a little more color on some other buildings to create the same effect!

honte · #**5047** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 2:42 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by VivaLFuego

...you can't ignore Natarus's role in downtown development over the last decade, nor the grinding halt under the reigns of terror of Fioretti/Reilly.

I wish you guys would give up the blaming of an overall market slowdown on new leadership. If the market conditions were identical to when they took office, I'd perk up.

I agree with Mr. Downtown's answer to the question of the origin of the Boom: Chicago is being rediscovered far and wide, and the inherent beauty and benefits of the locale are driving the demand. Just imagine what some visionary planning could do.

The Boom will continue as the market drives it. There are not many places in the Metro area where zoning will allow high-rises. A committed developer thus is not going to be deterred by a few new aldermen and a little extra red tape, if there is any at all. I will concede that Fioretti is off his rocker, but a real developer knows the ropes, as we have seen with the miserable circumstances at X/O. Maybe some of the big guys will scout north instead of south, just to avoid him, but overall I doubt there will be any decrease in delivered units.

Alliance · #**5048** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 3:24 PM**

^^^ Which, by the way wouldn't be horrible either. The South Loop is clearly being built for the next few years and it already has high-profile projects. Getting some more density on the northisde would be nice

aaron38 · #**5049** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 3:33 PM**

Act Two - The South Side

1400 MP

Mich Ave Tower 2

Marquee - in yellow custard aparently

1400MP & Mich Ave 2

VivaLFuego · #**5050** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 3:49 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by honte

I wish you guys would give up the blaming of an overall market slowdown on new leadership. If the market conditions were identical to when they took office, I'd perk up.

I agree with Mr. Downtown's answer to the question of the origin of the Boom: Chicago is being rediscovered far and wide, and the inherent beauty and benefits of the locale are driving the demand. Just imagine what some visionary planning could do.

The Boom will continue as the market drives it. There are not many places in the Metro area where zoning will allow high-rises. A committed developer thus is not going to be deterred by a few new aldermen and a little extra red tape, if there is any at all. I will concede that Fioretti is off his rocker, but a real developer knows the ropes, as we have seen with the miserable circumstances at X/O. Maybe some of the big guys will scout north instead of south, just to avoid him, but overall I doubt there will be any decrease in delivered units.

That's just because you don't hear about the projects that don't even go public because Reilly nixes them before they get off the drawing board....
...seriously.

BVictor1 · #**5051** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 4:02 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan in Chicago

According to a construction worker on site, test piles have already been put in the ground for Glashaus, so that's one more construction start for 2007. A few of you were curious about the number of high-rise starts this year.

I was gong to mention this yesterday. I did in fact go by the site and test piles have indeed been driven already. They were driven sometime last week.

aaron38 · #**5052** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 5:29 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by BVictor1

I was gong to mention this yesterday. I did in fact go by the site and test piles have indeed been driven already. They were driven sometime last week.

Ah, Glashaus, that's it. I couldn't remember what was on that stretch of Wabash, and was going to ask what it was. They were doing more pile driving yesterday (26th)

X-fib · #**5053** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 9:10 PM**

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aaron38 · #**5054** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 9:57 PM**

The Wit Hotel - From the El platform

Parkview West

I didn't think this photo would turn out, but it did. As I was walking from Grant park to LSE park, I looked up at 340 OTP and noticed bright flashes of color. The glass balconies were acting as prisims, and as I moved back and forth a couple feet, the colors shifted. It was really very cool, and the sun probably has to be in just the right place. Has anyone else seen this??

Green and Blue

Streeter Place

The Clare

353 N Clark

aaron38 · #**5055** Posted **Dec 27, 2007, 10:04 PM**

Also, the lot at the NE corner of Ontario and McClurg, 400 E Ontario, was being cleared. The building permit said NW medical center owned the land. What are they putting in there? Parking probably?

Wheelingman04 · #**5056** Posted **Dec 28, 2007, 12:05 AM**

^Wonderful set of photos.

SolarWind · #**5057** Posted **Dec 28, 2007, 1:51 AM**

December 26, 2007

Parkview West

the urban politician · #**5058** Posted **Dec 28, 2007, 2:14 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by VivaLFuego

That's just because you don't hear about the projects that don't even go public because Reilly nixes them before they get off the drawing board....
...seriously.

^ Eh? Are you being tongue-in-cheek here? Not to pry, but I didn't get the sense that you worked for the Planning Dept, so I am taken aback that you claim to have such knowledge. But whatever..

harryc · #**5059** Posted **Dec 28, 2007, 3:34 AM**

Neighbors

Forms ( always wondered exactly how they were attached )

A little gas

Nowhereman1280 · #**5060** Posted **Dec 28, 2007, 4:16 AM**

Has anyone noticed the signs for this little piece of infill? Its right behind 300. N. Lasalle, next to the Merch Mart station.

Also, really cool city texture captured with my new camera! I love how it looks like the super modern new building is eating the old one...