CHICAGO | The Elysian | 686 FT / 209 M | 60 FLOORS | COM - Page 65

andydie · #**1281** Posted **Feb 26, 2009, 4:54 PM**

Hello fellow Chicago Skyscraperfans and friends,

after my last update in November it was time again for a new video for this nice looking tower:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZDSpzLyr0

Music: Cygnus X - Superstring ( Rank 1 Radio Edit)
Music2: Dream Dance Alliance - A Day at the Beach

Enjoy

EarlyBuyer · #**1282** Posted **Feb 26, 2009, 6:04 PM**

Great video update once again Andy, thanks for your work on this!

EarlyBuyer · #**1283** Posted **Feb 26, 2009, 6:07 PM**

Charlie Trotter scraps planned restaurant

"...The celebrity chef and the Elysian Hotel & Private Residences have severed ties more than two years after announcing an agreement to open a Trotter-run restaurant in the condominium-and-hotel tower at 11 E. Walton St..."

"...The restaurant was to be Mr. Trotter’s first here since he opened his signature five-star restaurant in Lincoln Park in 1987. The chef also has two restaurants in Las Vegas. The loss of Mr. Trotter is a blow to the Elysian, a 60-story tower that includes 188 hotel suites and 52 condos. Adding to the Elysian’s challenges, the hotel market is rapidly deteriorating as business and leisure travelers cut back..."

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=33131

BVictor1 · #**1284** Posted **Feb 26, 2009, 8:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by EarlyBuyer

Charlie Trotter scraps planned restaurant

"...The celebrity chef and the Elysian Hotel & Private Residences have severed ties more than two years after announcing an agreement to open a Trotter-run restaurant in the condominium-and-hotel tower at 11 E. Walton St..."

"...The restaurant was to be Mr. Trotter’s first here since he opened his signature five-star restaurant in Lincoln Park in 1987. The chef also has two restaurants in Las Vegas. The loss of Mr. Trotter is a blow to the Elysian, a 60-story tower that includes 188 hotel suites and 52 condos. Adding to the Elysian’s challenges, the hotel market is rapidly deteriorating as business and leisure travelers cut back..."

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=33131

Thank god this bitch is up already.

i_am_hydrogen · #**1285** Posted **Feb 26, 2009, 9:41 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by EarlyBuyer

Charlie Trotter scraps planned restaurant

"...The celebrity chef and the Elysian Hotel & Private Residences have severed ties more than two years after announcing an agreement to open a Trotter-run restaurant in the condominium-and-hotel tower at 11 E. Walton St..."

"...The restaurant was to be Mr. Trotter’s first here since he opened his signature five-star restaurant in Lincoln Park in 1987. The chef also has two restaurants in Las Vegas. The loss of Mr. Trotter is a blow to the Elysian, a 60-story tower that includes 188 hotel suites and 52 condos. Adding to the Elysian’s challenges, the hotel market is rapidly deteriorating as business and leisure travelers cut back..."

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=33131

Very disappointing. Trotter's prospective restaurant was one of the few redeeming qualities of this development.

EarlyBuyer · #**1286** Posted **Feb 26, 2009, 10:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by BVictor1

Thank god this bitch is up already.

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Originally Posted by i_am_hydrogen

Very disappointing. Trotter's prospective restaurant was one of the few redeeming qualities of this development.

I'm curious as to how many purchasers identified Trotter's as an "essential element" in their contract and now have a legal option out of it.

Trotter's at the Elysian was a key selling point (and no doubt key buy decision point) for many purchasers in this building.

spyguy · #**1287** Posted **Feb 26, 2009, 11:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by EarlyBuyer

I'm curious as to how many purchasers identified Trotter's as an "essential element" in their contract and now have a legal option out of it.

Trotter's at the Elysian was a key selling point (and no doubt key buy decision point) for many purchasers in this building.

I'm not sure. They announced Trotter's at the end of 2006 I believe but they've been selling this building for years and in every press release they quote the same % sold.

BVictor1 · #**1288** Posted **Feb 27, 2009, 12:38 AM**

They've started placing cladding on the main roof (west side)

emathias · #**1289** Posted **Feb 27, 2009, 2:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by george

The material being installed on the lower roof isn't a shiny new or aged green cooper. It's probably a heavy gauge aluminium with a warm black/ brown, gun metal coloring.

I think the authentic metal for the type of architecture they're imitating would be zinc. I'm no expert, but that looks more like some sort of colored steel to me.

george · #**1290** Posted **Feb 27, 2009, 5:52 PM**

^ Sounds right.^

Quote:

Originally Posted by andydie

Hello fellow Chicago Skyscraperfans and friends,

after my last update in November it was time again for a new video for this nice looking tower:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZDSpzLyr0

Music: Cygnus X - Superstring ( Rank 1 Radio Edit)
Music2: Dream Dance Alliance - A Day at the Beach

Enjoy

Nice work Andy, as in all your videos, you do a great job of putting the individual images into a unified, evolving record. Well done!

andydie · #**1291** Posted **Feb 27, 2009, 6:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by george

^ Sounds right.^

Nice work Andy, as in all your videos, you do a great job of putting the individual images into a unified, evolving record. Well done!

thanx george, i like your picture updates in all these threads also

Also Thanx to EarlyBuyer

killaviews · #**1292** Posted **Feb 27, 2009, 10:29 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by EarlyBuyer

I'm curious as to how many purchasers identified Trotter's as an "essential element" in their contract and now have a legal option out of it.

Trotter's at the Elysian was a key selling point (and no doubt key buy decision point) for many purchasers in this building.

A top tier restaurant may be an "essential element", but I can't imagine the sales contract mentioning Trotter specifically. The developer would be pretty foolish to guarantee Charlie Trotter. And even if a purchaser tried to claim it was an essential element, I can't imagine a court finding the loss of Trotter to be material as long as there is a replacement.

Jibba · #**1293** Posted **Mar 5, 2009, 7:02 AM**

From West Town:

jc5680 · #**1294** Posted **Mar 9, 2009, 7:15 PM**

3.9

Chicago_Forever · #**1295** Posted **Mar 9, 2009, 11:03 PM**

I kinda like this building in the beginning but they've lost me with the white window frams. What the hell happened? Did they run out of black ones?

Nowhereman1280 · #**1296** Posted **Mar 9, 2009, 11:41 PM**

Yeah, its a definite NoNo that the window frames on the tower don't match those on the base or the balconies...

Rizzo · #**1297** Posted **Mar 10, 2009, 12:18 AM**

There's just so much wrong going on. All it needs is a cherry on top, like a discount on bright red aluminum roofing.

the urban politician · #**1298** Posted **Mar 10, 2009, 1:19 AM**

The auto court ain't too shabby

Nowhereman1280 · #**1299** Posted **Mar 10, 2009, 3:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by Hayward

There's just so much wrong going on. All it needs is a cherry on top, like a discount on bright red aluminum roofing.

Heck, that would be an improvement, at least at that point you could make the argument that this design is some sort of bizarre dadaist statement against the "art" of architecture...

VivaLFuego · #**1300** Posted **Mar 10, 2009, 6:26 PM**

Hey as long as we're griping, anyone else bummed about the very low unit density?