CHICAGO: boom rundown - everything over 12 floors. v4 - Page 29

BVictor1 · #**561** Posted **Jan 18, 2007, 4:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by SamInTheLoop

I'm just wondering - has anybody come across info or renderings for the new Children's Memorial Hospital in Streeterville? It was posted again on Bidclerk.com - about 20 stories, expected construction start Spring 2008...if I remember correctly, SCB is one of the firm's on the design team...

As far as I know, no renderings of the new Children's Memorial have been released yet. Not even to the neighborhood groups.

Marvel 33 · #**562** Posted **Jan 18, 2007, 9:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

i very clearly heard 470' at the meeting on monday evening, though it was stated that was just a preliminary height. perhaps mario simply heard the stated figure incorrectly.

It is 470', when the story was edited on the website someone made a mistake...but now it is corrected...our apologies!

BVictor1 · #**563** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 12:27 AM**

All of the highrises presented at the plan commission were approved today.

SamInTheLoop · #**564** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 12:32 AM**

Great News. Were any new renderings of 235 Van Buren shown? I've heard CMK might be moving very fast to market this one, as they are prone to do. It wouldn't surprise me if it were under construction by the end of summer - they are one streamlined, efficient development machine - and they've got some guts too, basically giving the slowing market the finger and carrying on with what they do - deliver...

SamInTheLoop · #**565** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 12:35 AM**

BVic, were any of the other approved high-rises notable? And finally, was it Museum Park Place South which got an FAR increase? (sorry for the barrage of questions, I'm a curious one!)

Busy Bee · #**566** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 12:35 AM**

Superb!

BVictor1 · #**567** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 12:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by SamInTheLoop

BVic, were any of the other approved high-rises notable? And finally, was it Museum Park Place South which got an FAR increase? (sorry for the barrage of questions, I'm a curious one!)

Nothing notable really.

SOAR submitted a letter OF SUPPORT for the Fairbanks project.

Yes MPPS got its FAR increase

For the Sheridan and Foster project, it was actually the block club/neighborhood group to the south which insisted the developer place a tower within the project.

SamInTheLoop · #**568** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 1:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by BVictor1

Nothing notable really.

SOAR submitted a letter OF SUPPORT for the Fairbanks project.

Yes MPPS got its FAR increase

For the Sheridan and Foster project, it was actually the block club/neighborhood group to the south which insisted the developer place a tower within the project.

Cool - thanks!

the urban politician · #**569** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 4:53 AM**

Wow, pro-highrise NIMBY groups. Are the tides finally turning?

spyguy · #**570** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 5:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chicago Shawn

Ask and ye shall recieve. You remember the blurb a while back about a rental apartment company from San Antonio planning a 32 story building at Wells and Kinzie? Well, guess who they hired.

Victor has a copy of the PD perhaps he can provide more info, but from the poor rendering that I saw, it looks fantastic. And it has 4 levels of retail toboot.

Interesting.

The old proposal from SCB wasn't that bad, but this sounds much better.

SevenSevenThree · #**571** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 6:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

Wow, pro-highrise NIMBY groups. Are the tides finally turning?

No. Several of them probably want to buy units in the project.

Chicago Shawn · #**572** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 7:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

Wow, pro-highrise NIMBY groups. Are the tides finally turning?

No, they were just nice to the senoir home, and decided a tower was better than a wall. The same group leader moaned about the 14 story project at 5440 Sheridan. He just spuddered out sentince fragments broken up by "ums". "We believe its um too tall; um too dense for the area; um not enough setback, um too much um traffic; um not pedestrian friendly um." It was like he was stuck in NIMBY robitic mode just muddering out the typical complaints without making any sort of argument. Never mind the fact he is representing a high-rise of 440 units, which sits next to two 40 story buildings and a 54 story building. Yet he still has the guall to call it too tall for the area.

Anyway, it passed. The design was altered to make it more square because the NIMBYS said the original triangalular design was too dramitic or some shit like that and they wanted something more "conventional". Never fear, the compromise is still very good.

The Van Buren project will have 44 units of affordable housing inside the building, and two parking spaces for eithier I-go or Zipcar. $500,000 will be donated for landscaping of the park spaces in the I-290 cloverleafs in front of the building; and another $500,000 is earmarked for landscaping if the ramps are buried within 10 years, if the ramps remain exposed that additional amount will go to the Park District general fund.

biophilic · #**573** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 2:18 PM**

Does anybody know anything about a proposed hotel at 505 N. State?

Monkey36 · #**574** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 2:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by biophilic

Does anybody know anything about a proposed hotel at 505 N. State?

Is that the parking lot on the NW corner of Illinois and State? I think that's the only lot available around there as the opposite corner is the AMA. I walk by there all the time (granted it's on my way to work at night) but I haven't seen any cars there in a while. It'd be nice to see that flat surface go. If it is indeed what I'm thinking of.

budman · #**575** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 2:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Monkey36

Is that the parking lot on the NW corner of Illinois and State? I think that's the only lot available around there as the opposite corner is the AMA. I walk by there all the time (granted it's on my way to work at night) but I haven't seen any cars there in a while. It'd be nice to see that flat surface go. If it is indeed what I'm thinking of.

^No, it is the little park/plaza next to the AMA building (address of AMA building is 515 N. State) at the north east corner of Illinois and State, and the hotel was supposed to be 22 stories. Havent heard anything in 6 months or so.

Steely Dan · #**576** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 3:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by budman

^No, it is the little park/plaza next to the AMA building (address of AMA building is 515 N. State) at the north east corner of Illinois and State, and the hotel was supposed to be 22 stories. Havent heard anything in 6 months or so.

where are you getting the 22 story figure from? both page 1 and emporis have the aloft hotel/condo proposal for that site pegged at 34 floors. has the project gone through a downsizing?

Steely Dan · #**577** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 3:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chicago Shawn

Ask and ye shall recieve. You remember the blurb a while back about a rental apartment company from San Antonio planning a 32 story building at Wells and Kinzie? Well, guess who they hired.

Victor has a copy of the PD perhaps he can provide more info, but from the poor rendering that I saw, it looks fantastic. And it has 4 levels of retail toboot.

shawn, is this proposal listed in the emporis database yet? if so, could you provide a building ID link? if not, do you guys have enough info about it to create one? thanks in advance.

budman · #**578** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 4:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

where are you getting the 22 story figure from? both page 1 and emporis have the aloft hotel/condo proposal for that site pegged at 34 floors. has the project gone through a downsizing?

^Sorry, that 22 floor number was a misprint

What I know is this - I work in the AMA building on the top (28th) floor, and one of my co-workers, who is in charge of our lease, told me that Buck's people told him that the hotel that is being built on the adjoining property will not affect our view. If this information is correct (and I had this conversation about 6 - 9 months ago), then that 34 floor number would be wrong. I will try and get more details.

Steely Dan · #**579** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 4:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by budman

^Sorry, that 22 floor number was a misprint

What I know is this - I work in the AMA building on the top (28th) floor, and one of my co-workers, who is in charge of our lease, told me that Buck's people told him that the hotel that is being built on the adjoining property will not affect our view. If this information is correct (and I had this conversation about 6 - 9 months ago), then that 34 floor number would be wrong. I will try and get more details.

not neccessarily. you're on the 28th floor of an OFFICE building, which almost always have much higher floor-to-floor heights than residential/hotel buildings (though the gap has been closing a bit in the ultra-luxury market), so it's entirely conceiveable that a 34 floor hotel/residential building next door will not block the view from floor 28 of the AMA bulding.

Belacqua · #**580** Posted **Jan 19, 2007, 5:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by denizen467

Alluded to in the 300 N Lasalle thread:
www.250southwacker.com
Emporis has images of how it used to look -- extremely dated, so this will be a vast improvement.
It will become an office condo, so there will be a greatly diminished chance it will ever be replaced with anything (good news for Sears and its low-rise tenants).

Funny that this came up yesterday--I heard yesterday, from what seems to be a reliable source, that the building/conversion may not continue in its planned form. I assume the physical renovation will go on as planned (it's pretty far underway) but its no longer clear that it will ultimately be an office condo, as they don't seem to have found enough buyers. So it may just end up being regular rental space.