CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7 - Page 218

SamInTheLoop · #**4341** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 1:42 PM**

Tower crane was going up yesterday for 801 S Financial (first of '16 P/H Trifecta of Mediocrity).

Also, 1001 S State is racing toward completion and opening to first tenants in a month or two. I have to say, the base facade (parking levels 2-3, or 2-4) looks atrocious - even at the NW corner of the project where the lobby/tenant entrance and the restaurant with outdoor space will be (should be the 'money corner'), it looks like (don't know what actual metal material used is) a corrugated metal for the facade for the few stories right above. I think it's awful. I can't believe they didn't spend more at least on this highly visible and more activated part of the base's facade to glass it over or something else more appealing..........I think it's really bad stuff.....

sentinel · #**4342** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 1:42 PM**

Updated page 1 with new rendering for Nobu as well as 217 Jefferson and the Andaz hotel.

Also, some of you need to kindly cut the — and stay on topic, please. Thanks in advance.

marothisu · #**4343** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 1:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by sentinel

Updated page 1 with new rendering for Nobu as well as 217 Jefferson and the Andaz hotel.

Also, some of you need to kindly cut the — and stay on topic, please. Thanks in advance.

Please put Viceroy Hotel in Under Construction. The thing is already 2-3 stories off the ground and we have pictures in this thread in the last handful of pages to prove it.

intrepidDesign · #**4344** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 2:27 PM**

I was unable to snap a pic since I was driving but 1035 West Van Buren's core is clearly visible from 290. Really excited for this one.

Near North Resident · #**4345** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 2:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by harryc

06-08

I'm very disappointed in this building, was riding my bike in this morning and the facade is almost the exact same boring beige color that AMLI is!

It does NOT Look as white as it does in this picture!

I bet aldercritter Reilly had something to do with that craptastic coloring!

JK47 · #**4346** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 2:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Justin_Chicago

The whole McD conversation is hilarious when you consider how far suburban commuters have to walk or take a MTA transfer to their office in NYC when they arrive at Grand Central Terminal or Penn Station.

Suburban midwesterners don't like walking. They blanch when you tell them they'd have to walk a half mile or more.

r18tdi · #**4347** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 2:59 PM**

Anyone going to Plan Commission today? That Old Town hotel should be a real NIMBY — show...

sentinel · #**4348** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 3:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by marothisu

Please put Viceroy Hotel in Under Construction. The thing is already 2-3 stories off the ground and we have pictures in this thread in the last handful of pages to prove it.

Done. Thanks for the info.

sentinel · #**4349** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 3:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by JK47

Suburban midwesterners don't like walking. They blanch when you tell them they'd have to walk a half mile or more.

False and a pretty broad brush you got there. Need is the biggest factor in this case, and when you live in a (mostly) car-centric suburb you drive most everywhere...BUT, that doesn't mean that people refuse to walk, to a grocery store, public transit, nightlife, even just for pleasure etc. Posts like yours make it difficult to qualify posts like mine, even though yours are even more difficult to qualify.

However, I will provide a personal anecdote to prove you wrong: My current office is near the O'Hare/Rosemont/Des Plaines trifuckta of automobile culture, and yet, one can clearly see many large groups, individuals, commuters, lunch crowds walking everywhere, even in a somewhat pedestrian-averse landscape AND in colder weather.

Stunnies23 · #**4350** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 4:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by r18tdi

Anyone going to Plan Commission today? That Old Town hotel should be a real NIMBY — show...

I can't wait to read the article in DNA info telling us how there were dozens of people bitching about height, traffic, etc., and the plan commission still approves it. Hopefully a member of the commission tells them to go move to Plainfield if they don't want to live in a city. Old Town is a neighborhood that deserves density to help its retail and dining scenes flourish. Additionally, Old Town needs to contribute a lot more to the tax base if we are ever going to get the city out of its fiscal hole.
That said, it is one ugly hotel design, and I can only hope a new architect is brought on to make it better looking.

i_am_hydrogen · #**4351** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 5:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by r18tdi

Anyone going to Plan Commission today? That Old Town hotel should be a real NIMBY — show...

It was approved.

the urban politician · #**4352** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 5:56 PM**

^ I wonder if the Plan Commission members get some dark pleasure out of listening to all these whiny NIMBY's for who knows how long and then, at the very end, vote "APPROVE".

You can't help but wonder, since they pretty much approve everything.

BVictor1 · #**4353** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 7:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

^ I wonder if the Plan Commission members get some dark pleasure out of listening to all these whiny NIMBY's for who knows how long and then, at the very end, vote "APPROVE".

You can't help but wonder, since they pretty much approve everything.

I know that I get a jones...

BuzzBuzzDanielle · #**4354** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 7:14 PM**

Gerding Eden was given the green light to begin construction this week at 165 North Desplaines Street and they expect to wrap up construction in late 2017. GREC Architects are designing. BuzzBuzzHome has more information about this building and has acquired some new interior and exterior renderings (below). For more information about this project you can check out the BuzzBuzzHome listing at https://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/165-north-desplaines-street

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Originally Posted by Skyguy_7

^Good to hear!

For those like me who can no longer keep track..

Via CAB

r18tdi · #**4355** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 7:52 PM**

So did 300 W. Huron get approved? I didn't see it on the DPD's twitter feed.

LouisVanDerWright · #**4356** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 8:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by sentinel

trifuckta

Lol, nice. I will be adding this word to my vocabulary.

LouisVanDerWright · #**4357** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 8:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

^ I wonder if the Plan Commission members get some dark pleasure out of listening to all these whiny NIMBY's for who knows how long and then, at the very end, vote "APPROVE".

You can't help but wonder, since they pretty much approve everything.

They approve anything because the entire zoning process is a rubber stamp. No one dares submit a zoning app unless they already know the alderman will support it. Submitting anything before talking to / blowing the alderman is a big no no and the quickest way to have your project iced (see what happened with the hotel next to Trump those developers tried to slip by Reilly. It was as of right and he still fucked them.)

Randomguy34 · #**4358** Posted **Jun 16, 2016, 10:53 PM**

Also, we finally have a proper rendering of 768 N. Aberdeen

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SolarWind · #**4359** Posted **Jun 17, 2016, 1:29 AM**

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