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Jstange059 · #**53881** Posted **Oct 7, 2025, 8:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jibba

I received a notice in the mail that a new SSA is being proposed that includes a lot of Irving Park Road near Graceland.

The thing in the plan commission is only west of California Ave though, but an additional investment along this corridor certainly wouldn't be a bad thing!

mh777 · #**53882** Posted **Oct 8, 2025, 10:36 PM**

The magic of tower cranes! Seriously though. This build is a textbook example of why every developer building over 5 stories should use a tower crane. I drove past today and they STILL haven’t topped out. According to the YIMBY article below, they completed demo the first of February…they are not even clearing a floor a month on this one! Absolutely crazy to me that we’re in 2025 and construction (on a cookie cutter apartment building) can move that slow.

https://chicagoyimby.com/2025/02/fast-tr...r-west-loop-residential-development.html

Jibba · #**53883** Posted **Oct 9, 2025, 4:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jstange059

The thing in the plan commission is only west of California Ave though, but an additional investment along this corridor certainly wouldn't be a bad thing!

Ah, gotcha. Multiple stretches of Irving! Good.

Jibba · #**53884** Posted **Oct 9, 2025, 4:50 PM**

3037 N Lincoln

Randomguy34 · #**53885** Posted **Oct 9, 2025, 5:12 PM**

Delicious.

Jibba · #**53886** Posted **Oct 9, 2025, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Randomguy34

Delicious.

Right?

Kenmore · #**53887** Posted **Oct 9, 2025, 5:56 PM**

nice^

Sprinklemoore · #**53888** Posted **Oct 9, 2025, 7:57 PM**

^^ This is terrible especially when compared to the Terra cotta accents they tore down to build this. Very banal, tired of developers not even attempting to salvage and reuse anything. It doesn’t cost that much more.

cloudbod · #**53889** Posted **Oct 9, 2025, 9:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jibba

3037 N Lincoln

Love the depth, properly-sized bricks, detailed masonry, and especially those black metal transoms. Blends cozy human-scale, ground-floor activation, and industrial sturdiness. They also broke up the horizontal massing into two vertically-oriented bays, which I always dig!

I'll miss the adorable building that used to occupy this spot-- I'm still upset they couldn't save that terracotta medallion-- but this is still definitely the best Hanna design thus far. They might be listening to us lol

r18tdi · #**53890** Posted **Oct 10, 2025, 2:30 PM**

No way I would have thought that was from Hanna. They've come a long way (or maybe they're working with a client who isn't a total cheapskate for once)?

Jstange059 · #**53891** Posted **Oct 10, 2025, 5:59 PM**

In the recent Madison Street Corridor Study document, I noticed a mention of a new XS Tennis development at 2306 W Maypole that I know absolutely nothing abou, and I couldn’t find any information about it googling it either. Of course, I know about XS tennis’s hotel and apartment development in Washington Park, but does anyone know about this one?

Madison Street Corridor Study
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/madison-corridor-study/home.html

BVictor1 · #**53892** Posted **Oct 13, 2025, 4:08 AM**

https://wackerplace.com

10.07.25

KWillChicago · #**53893** Posted **Oct 14, 2025, 2:50 AM**

Are there any other skyscrapers in chicago that could get a good scrubbing and reveal the natural colors like the Carbide & Carbon building?

sentinel · #**53894** Posted **Oct 14, 2025, 12:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by KWillChicago

Are there any other skyscrapers in chicago that could get a good scrubbing and reveal the natural colors like the Carbide & Carbon building?

This one is probably the prime example of that:

https://chicagoyimby.com/2025/10/preliminary-landmark-status-approved-for-loop-high-rises.html

cloudbod · #**53895** Posted **Oct 14, 2025, 6:32 PM**

Walked by 205 N Superior today-- looks like the underground levels are complete. I'm interested in what GREC has planned here. There's not much public info available on this one, but apparently GREC was the local AOR for RAMSA's last project in town (One Bennett) so this rendering might be accurate. Who knows?

left of center · #**53896** Posted **Oct 14, 2025, 6:39 PM**

A tremendous loss for them to build a kitschy knock off building that it only 1 story taller than the original. Sadly this city loves to crap all over its history.

munchymunch · #**53897** Posted **Oct 14, 2025, 9:36 PM**

It’s going to be a “gentleman’s club” not the strip club kind but the exclusive nobu/soho type thing. Such a shame what was torn down for this donkey shit concept too.

Steely Dan · #**53898** Posted **Oct 14, 2025, 10:27 PM**

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."

- Groucho Marx

k1052 · #**53899** Posted **Oct 15, 2025, 12:23 PM**

The Broadway upzone passed the Zoning Committee yesterday. City council passage possibly this week.

Apparently a number of cranky homeowners had to be kicked out of the committee meeting for being disruptive.

r18tdi · #**53900** Posted **Oct 15, 2025, 1:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by k1052

Apparently a number of cranky homeowners had to be kicked out of the committee meeting for being disruptive.

Good.