CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction

[nomarandlee]

Originally Posted by Skyguy_7

^Good to hear they're considering options. That lot is too damn close to Michigane has a lot of potential.

A Tribune Tower II on that lot would be awesome.

I would be nearly just as stoked to see the Chicago Tribune Plant on the river get redeveloped though. It could really go a long way in making a sizable stretch of the river accessible and attractive nearly a mile from Wolf Point. If the Apparel Center and East Bank Club were go by the wayside in 20 years eventually we would have a long esplanade on both sides of the north branch that would provide a great continuation of the main branch that is coming.

I have thought that the Tribune Plant parcel would be a great place for the Cubs if they ever decided to relocate within the city. Much more likely though hopefully we could get some great residential mix of high/med/low rises there.

[trvlr70]

Originally Posted by Skyguy_7

I recall reading about plans for a 40th floor rooftop lounge, so I don't know if this is in addition to it, or if they've revised their plans and this IS it.. But there are new drawings out to bid for an 11th floor indoor/outdoor rooftop lounge, on Prudential's podium. Its view will certainly rival that of Trump's. Completion date is set for September of this year

That would make more sense to have it on the 11th floor. The top might be too windy to be open air. But I still hope at least an enclosed lounge open up there.

[nergie]

Originally Posted by Chicago Shawn

^^Trump's first sign application was denied. I assume the one we are seeing installed is smaller in size than what he first had planned.





I'm not so sure about that. This pocket of River West is inhabited by the same people that complained about the church bells at St. John Cantius; to which the church no longer rings the bells after 9pm in order to be "a good neighbor". It takes a special kind of NIMBY to move in across the street from a century year old church and complain about the bell tower keeping you awake at night.

I agree the "TRUMP" sign is ugly does not belong on the buiding facade. If Trump needs to stroke his ego, and point out this is his building, wouldn't an elegant/classy "T" on the paripat do? This would have been a million times better that what they are doing to the building now.

[chris08876]

On the bright side, I think it will look okay once its done. Given the color, and the contrast to the glass, it doesn't look too glitzy or even "Vegas" like at all. At least he choose that color. If it had been like gold letters, than it would definitely be out of place. Remember, its the second tallest tower in the city. That is more than enough ego for anybody to handle. The letters are just the cherry on top of a already super inflated ego.

[rlw777]

Originally Posted by denizen467

Some years out, this could result in some big projects being constructed:

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/2...-tribune-planning-a-second-chicago-tower
Is Tribune planning a second Chicago tower?
By Lynne Marek May 15, 2014

As Tribune Co. CEO Peter Liguori angles to cash in on the company's real estate, there are a lot of ideas swirling in his head, including a vision of twin Tribune towers. “We could do things like build another Tribune tower next door to Tribune Tower,” he said today during the MoffettNathanson Media & Communications Summit in New York. ...

Mr. Liguori said he was surprised, when he took the Chicago media conglomerate's top post in January 2014, to find that the owners didn't really know what property they owned. It was “worrisome,” he said, but he tasked his staff with putting together a book, to which he added pages for months.

Since then, Tribune has hired a real estate executive and outside advisers to maximize occupancy in buildings, consider staff moves for more efficient use, and to analyze property rights that would let the company do things like build next to the landmark, neo-Gothic Tribune Tower. Just east of the tower, Tribune owns a surface parking lot that could provide room for such a project. ...

I've always wondered about that car pit behind tribune. Always seemed like a prime location so close to Michigan ave and the river and surrounded by historic architecture. Who forgets owning prime property like that?

[UPChicago]

I am surprised the Trump condo association allowed this to happen. You'd think a tower of rich and powerful people wouldn't stand for such a defacement of THEIR tower.

[harryc]

Originally Posted by chris08876

On the bright side, I think it will look okay once its done. Given the color, and the contrast to the glass, it doesn't look too glitzy or even "Vegas" like at all. At least he choose that color. If it had been like gold letters, than it would definitely be out of place. Remember, its the second tallest tower in the city. That is more than enough ego for anybody to handle. The letters are just the cherry on top of a already super inflated ego.

More photos at Curbed

[Tom Servo]

Originally Posted by Onn

No, you need to write a letter to the hotel/tower and the city and tell them the sign looks ridiculous and ruins the building! They shouldn't be allowed to get away with that!

Agreed. Can we get a petition going or something?

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by UPChicago

I am surprised the Trump condo association allowed this to happen. You'd think a tower of rich and powerful people wouldn't stand for such a defacement of THEIR tower.

Trump is a mixed-use building. The facade is most likely out of the control of the condo owners.

[chris11]

Originally Posted by UPChicago

I am surprised the Trump condo association allowed this to happen. You'd think a tower of rich and powerful people wouldn't stand for such a defacement of THEIR tower.

"Such a defacement" Give me a break its 5 letters! You guys sound absolutely ridiculous.

[UPChicago]

Originally Posted by chris11

"Such a defacement" Give me a break its 5 letters! You guys sound absolutely ridiculous.

Well if it were any other name maybe not.....

Originally Posted by ardecila

Trump is a mixed-use building. The facade is most likely out of the control of the condo owners.

I understand the lower portion is the Trump Hotel maybe that's why the sign isn't atop the building where it would look most natural.

[streetline]

Originally Posted by nomarandlee

A Tribune Tower II on that lot would be awesome.

I would be nearly just as stoked to see the Chicago Tribune Plant on the river get redeveloped though. It could really go a long way in making a sizable stretch of the river accessible and attractive nearly a mile from Wolf Point. If the Apparel Center and East Bank Club were go by the wayside in 20 years eventually we would have a long esplanade on both sides of the north branch that would provide a great continuation of the main branch that is coming.

I have thought that the Tribune Plant parcel would be a great place for the Cubs if they ever decided to relocate within the city. Much more likely though hopefully we could get some great residential mix of high/med/low rises there.

I'd love to see the Tribune's Freedom Center plant redeveloped as dense mixed use. It could connect River North with River West in a way that would make the river a centerpiece rather than a border, benefiting both neighborhoods.

But the plant is in a Planned Manufacturing District, so it's going to require a lot of political weight to be thrown behind that kind of project to make it happen.

I'm not categorically against PMDs, but I do think the ones within a mile or so of the loop are questionable. When you've got new 30+ story towers on one side of a street and blocks of vacant lots and parking lots on the other, that seems like a pretty clear indication that something is wrong; and that's happening at Grand in PMD5 and Halsted in PMD4.

[marothisu]

Heard through the grapevine that Trump wanted a sign on his building in response to all the Spire talk. hahaha...

[bnk]

Originally Posted by harryc

More photos at Curbed

I don't like the font and the letters are a bit too large

This would have been a better compromise.



Than this.

[photoLith]

Eh it doesn't look that bad.

[chicubs111]

Kinda waiting for Chicago to make that turn and start building 50 story buildings the same way they building 30 to 40 story buildings... Toronto is doing this on a incredible scale as well as NYC of course... I actually thought we took that turn during the condo boom but we seems to fall back in that 350ft to 500ft plateau

[marothisu]

I wonder if 707 N Wells is ramping up. 703 N Wells and 705 N Wells both got demolition permits last Friday (5/9). That's the 12 story rental building at basically Wells & Huron. Emathias - do you know anything with this of late?

[ardecila]

Man, I really hope that Rahm is able to just crush the whole concept of PMDs so we can start taking advantage of rail corridors. The entire Elston corridor is a 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 of massive proportions... pedestrians, cyclists, etc are getting killed regularly by massive trucks that belong in the wide open spaces of the suburbs, or at least the south/west sides.

[denizen467]

Originally Posted by bnk

I don't like the font and the letters are a bit too large

This would have been a better compromise.

That is 1000 times better. I actually wouldn't mind that on there.

[Catmendue2]

Originally Posted by photoLith

Eh it doesn't look that bad.

Plus, his investment gave him the right. He's a greasy slick con-artist but he bought that right. I like it, plain and simple, even tho I don't like Donald.