CHICAGO | Boom rundown - everything over 12 floors. v5 - Page 444

denizen467 · #**8861** Posted **Sep 18, 2008, 7:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by brian_b

There was a drilling truck taking soil samples all over this site (surface lot) last month.

If this is not Catalyst, then do we have any render for this?

brian_b · #**8862** Posted **Sep 18, 2008, 2:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by denizen467

If this is not Catalyst, then do we have any render for this?

Catalyst is on Des Plaines, not Jefferson.

i_am_hydrogen · #**8863** Posted **Sep 18, 2008, 2:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by jc5680

Lincoln Park 2520
Still a sleepy sight, but some progress here and there

There was a rig of some sort on the site yesterday. By this morning, however, it was gone. It's taking them so long to begin demo on the hospital. One would assume that demolition of a hospital would add some extra wrinkles of complexity to the process. I wonder to what extent any hospital equipment remains in the building. Was it all cleared out when Columbus moved, or are some vestiges still left? (Are the ghosts of long-deceased patients still roaming the corridors?)

bnk · #**8864** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 12:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by spyguy

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http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=2166

Chicago: Edition Hotel, 150 E. Ontario St., 270-unit mixed-use hotel, March 2009, $240 million..

http://www.editionhotels.com/

http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1...ails_on_the_New_Edition_Hotel_in_Chicago

Construction on the $240 million project will begin this year, with an opening expected in 2011. The Art Deco-style tower will include a limited number of branded high-end condominiums as well....

51 stories

http://www.monacodev.com/

Busy Bee · #**8865** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 1:50 AM**

Everybody party like its 1999!!! No, wait... '89!

SolarWind · #**8866** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 3:01 AM**

September 15, 2008

Nowhereman1280 · #**8867** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 3:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by bnk

Construction on the $240 million project will begin this year, with an opening expected in 2011. The Art Deco-style tower will include a limited number of branded high-end condominiums as well....

51 stories

Its like Chicago Place II with less disgusting green and pink and more disgusting beige!

bnk · #**8868** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 4:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280

Its like Chicago Place II with less disgusting green and pink and more disgusting beige!

Oh well, in these times I will not insult any building that wants to break ground in this economic climate that will go over 50 stories.

I think Chicago fourmers need to take a step back and not slam any new development for awhile regardless if it is not up to your usual standard of excellence.

Quite frankly we are going into hard times.

As long as they are not demolishing historical structures to build new buildings then I am for it and will except a slight here and there to keep the construction industry fed.

Alliance · #**8869** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 4:17 AM**

Quite frankly, hard times are not an excuse to build cr@p, just to build cr@p. Its like going to WalMart just to buy something. Its just a further drain on an already junky market and — clients away from decent products that don't look like the demon love child of R.R.Donnelly and Park Tower.

3countriesplan · #**8870** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 4:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by Alliance

Quite frankly, hard times are not an excuse to build cr@p, just to build cr@p. Its like going to WalMart just to buy something. Its just a further drain on an already junky market and — clients away from decent products that don't look like the demon love child of R.R.Donnelly and Park Tower.

It looks a little like the WAMU tower in Seattle. That tower won a design award a few years back. I wonder how tall this building will be?

bnk · #**8871** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 5:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by Alliance

Quite frankly, hard times are not an excuse to build cr@p, just to build cr@p. Its like going to WalMart just to buy something. Its just a further drain on an already junky market and — clients away from decent products that don't look like the demon love child of R.R.Donnelly and Park Tower.

On just two short renders your are confident enough about your prediction of this piece being a pice total —?

denizen467 · #**8872** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 8:01 AM**

^ No, the render is many months old. It is a step down from a previous version. It was not even designed by an architecture firm. As Busy Bee concisely pointed out, the design is 20 years too late. And as Alliance suggested, this site would be better off vacant for another 20 years than seeing this thing built now.

honte · #**8873** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 3:11 PM**

^ Or, with the historic buildings still on it that they tore down.

I'm solidly with Alliance on this one. I predict total POS or worse (is that possible?), and also agree that we're wasting a prime piece of Michigan Avenue real estate on more degrading junk.

The only worse outcome would be to have vacant land just off Michigan for the next 20 years, which I thought might happen... so there is a very, very thin silver lining.

Tom In Chicago · #**8874** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 3:28 PM**

It's hard to tell, but from the looks of it they're not even going for a post-modern look, but more of a cartoonish design that you might see in the context of a video game. . . for better or worse. . .

Nowhereman1280 · #**8875** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 4:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by honte

^ Or, with the historic buildings still on it that they tore down.

I'm solidly with Alliance on this one. I predict total POS or worse (is that possible?), and also agree that we're wasting a prime piece of Michigan Avenue real estate on more degrading junk.

Yeah, this project makes the Ritz-Carlton — pile they are building look classy! At least that one tries to pretend it has details...

trvlr70 · #**8876** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by honte

^ Or, with the historic buildings still on it that they tore down.

I'm solidly with Alliance on this one. I predict total POS or worse (is that possible?), and also agree that we're wasting a prime piece of Michigan Avenue real estate on more degrading junk.

The only worse outcome would be to have vacant land just off Michigan for the next 20 years, which I thought might happen... so there is a very, very thin silver lining.

This is so disappointing because the original render was actually pretty interesting....looked like a very skinny NYC condo tower on the UES.

X-fib2 · #**8877** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 6:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tom In Chicago

It's hard to tell, but from the looks of it they're not even going for a post-modern look, but more of a cartoonish design that you might see in the context of a video game. . . for better or worse. . .

Yep, my first thoughts were, "this design must have been lifted from Gotham City"