CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7 - Page 1173

BrickellBased · #**23441** Posted **Jul 9, 2024, 2:06 PM**

I lol'd when I saw that RIU hotel font.

I found this about a 26th floor skybar it will have https://www.riu.com/blog/en/this-is-...-will-be-like/ - adding to the amazing collection of Chicago's rooftop bars. You can see from some of the photos that the skybar is going to have an overhanging glass floor like Willis.

Also a bunch of renderings of the inside - very posh : https://www.riu.com/en/hotel/usa/chi...plaza-chicago/

Anyone know if the lower balcony by the street is going to be a restaurant? That would be an amazing place to sit if so.

dewbs · #**23442** Posted **Jul 9, 2024, 2:50 PM**

looks like caesar's palace on the outside. The inside is a jumble of styles and will probably come out cheap (e.g. knockoff Wegner chairs in the renderings).

gandalf612 · #**23443** Posted **Jul 9, 2024, 4:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by BrickellBased

You can see from some of the photos that the skybar is going to have an overhanging glass floor like Willis.

Truly an inspired amenity to offer drunk customers

twister244 · #**23444** Posted **Jul 9, 2024, 4:51 PM**

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Truly an inspired amenity to offer drunk customers

Hey - I'm all for rooftops and their drunken accommodations......

KOgc · #**23445** Posted **Jul 9, 2024, 6:16 PM**

Demolition equipment on site at 400 N. Elizabeth.

Looks like they're tearing up the parking lot.

Randomguy34 · #**23446** Posted **Jul 11, 2024, 12:35 AM**

I noticed Ald. LaSpata filed an ordinance to give tax breaks to a new building planned for 1628 W Division. I thought the proposal was dead, but I looked at the updated PD and it seems to still be alive

140 ft | 154 units | 131 parking spots

Ordinance: https://chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov...A-001DD804F643
PD: https://gisapps.chicago.gov/gisimage...pds/PD1441.pdf

WestTowner · #**23447** Posted **Jul 11, 2024, 1:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Randomguy34

I noticed Ald. LaSpata filed an ordinance to give tax breaks to a new building planned for 1628 W Division. I thought the proposal was dead, but I looked at the updated PD and it seems to still be alive

140 ft | 154 units | 131 parking spots

LaSpata pushing for a building with that parking ratio?? Tsk tsk...guess I'm gonna have to email him.

r18tdi · #**23448** Posted **Jul 11, 2024, 3:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by BrickellBased

Anyone know if the lower balcony by the street is going to be a restaurant? That would be an amazing place to sit if so.

I believe that area was earmarked for a coffee shop/breakfast room for guests when the design was presented to the community a few years back.

west-town-brad · #**23449** Posted **Jul 12, 2024, 2:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by WestTowner

LaSpata pushing for a building with that parking ratio?? Tsk tsk...guess I'm gonna have to email him.

I think the 131 number includes the parking that already exists in the PD, which is most of it.

chi_raven · #**23450** Posted **Jul 12, 2024, 5:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by west-town-brad

I think the 131 number includes the parking that already exists in the PD, which is most of it.

Yeah, according to this article on YIMBY, only 24 new parking spaces will be added.

https://chicagoyimby.com/2024/07/67775.html

Edit: The article also mentions only 121 units compared to 154 above so the numbers on this one seem weird.

r18tdi · #**23451** Posted **Jul 12, 2024, 6:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by west-town-brad

I think the 131 number includes the parking that already exists in the PD, which is most of it.

I was gonna say, how the hell will they fit 131 vehicles in a first-floor garage in a building of that size?

Ned.B · #**23452** Posted **Jul 15, 2024, 6:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by colemonkee

You would think they would punch out the windows on the side abutting the Hotel St. Clair. That building seems old enough and architecturally significant enough to save and not redevelop.

It may not have been worth the cost for what is mostly a view of the Hyatt Centric. Building codes don't care what the likeliness is of a neighboring building being replaced in the future. For glass to be right on the property line like that it would have needed to be fire rated glass which is more costly than a typical window system, or they would have needed to pull the building back at least 3'-0" from the property line in order to have unprotected openings. Neither option may have allowed them to reserve the rooms for higher rates, so a blank wall it remains.

A similar comparison would be the blank wall on the Hilton Garden Inn adjacent to the Seventeenth Church of Christ Scientist and that one would have had much better views.

Jibba · #**23453** Posted **Jul 16, 2024, 3:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by gandalf612

Truly an inspired amenity to offer drunk customers

hahahahahahaha

Steely Dan · #**23454** Posted **Today, 2:06 AM**

1200 Fulton news moved to its dedicated thread:

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=249640