CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7

[harryc]

April 06

[harryc]

April 06

[UrbanLibertine]

Originally Posted by spyguy

Don't know if it's been mentioned already, but there are several sites for sale that likely would be redeveloped in the future:

• Rainforest Cafe in River North
• Site north of SONU apartments on Fremont (was supposed to be a hotel)
• Vitamin Shoppe on North Ave as well as the four buildings to the south on Clybourn

Also, the City Colleges HQ building on Jackson and Franklin is being converted into a Hilton Garden Inn + Canopy hotel with rooftop bar. Should help add some life to the Loop outside business hours.

Nothing would make me happier than getting rid of that damn Rainforest Cafe.

[aaron38]

Killing time at McCormick waiting for a trade show to start.

[HomrQT]

^^^^

Wow, if you removed all the buildings that have been built in the past 10 years from that image, you'd have a very different looking skyline.

[BonoboZill4]

Originally Posted by HomrQT

^^^^

Wow, if you removed all the buildings that have been built in the past 10 years from that image, you'd have a very different looking skyline.

Hell, back it up to 2002 and at least half of the buildings showing are gone and Soldier Field doesn't have a space ship on it

[harryc]

Originally Posted by BonoboZill4

Hell, back it up to 2002 and at least half of the buildings showing are gone and Soldier Field doesn't have a space ship on it

10yrs ago - May 17 2009

Chicago - 2008 by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

[aaron38]

Looking south from Morgan St. station

[aaron38]

Morgan St.




Madison and Green
I think this is called a "Harry"

[Hourstrooper]

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2019...re-parking-352-north-union-moving-ahead/

353 n union moving along should start relatively soon but with a height reduction.

[The Lurker]

ChicagoArchitecture does it again.
"410 feet making it the 96th tallest building in Chicago."
At 410 feet this building would rank about 200.

[Ricochet48]

Another River North Parking Lot to Bite the Dust!

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by Hourstrooper

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2019...re-parking-352-north-union-moving-ahead/

353 n union moving along should start relatively soon but with a height reduction.

Plus more parking. But no mention about number of apartments

[marothisu]

Last time I visited Chicago and in the West Loop, I couldn't help but notice how bad traffic had become. I'm not joking or making fun of NIMBYs but they seriously need to figure that out before the neighborhood adds thousands of more people who all want their cars.

[harryc]

Originally Posted by marothisu

Last time I visited Chicago and in the West Loop, I couldn't help but notice how bad traffic had become. I'm not joking or making fun of NIMBYs but they seriously need to figure that out before the neighborhood adds thousands of more people who all want their cars.

I walk around the west loop at least once a week - no problem ;-)

Also do drive around once a month or so, not bad at all.

[healthiswealth]

Don't know how to copy pics, but that skyline shot from the south in post 14321..wow. Probably an unpopular opinion here, but part of the reason that shot's so good is no Sears. Changes the skyline. Sears has one great angle, another ok one and the rest...no comment.

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by marothisu

Last time I visited Chicago and in the West Loop, I couldn't help but notice how bad traffic had become. I'm not joking or making fun of NIMBYs but they seriously need to figure that out before the neighborhood adds thousands of more people who all want their cars.

I work in the West Loop and experience it daily... There are some traffic issues but they’re pretty localized to certain blocks. Definitely not gridlock, CDOT just needs to make some tweaks, which is an ongoing process. And honestly most of the problem is because the city has been slow to add traffic signals to intersections. Right now there are too many four-way stops, which is great for the pedestrians but really snarls traffic.

They are supposed to add a few signals along Lake which will ease the congestion there. Randolph is more complicated because of the service drives, but there is discussion of eliminating these to create a pedestrian mall with traffic pushed either to the center or the edges.

Lastly, where do you get the idea that all the new residents are bringing cars? That’s like a NIMBY mantra and it isn’t borne out in the fact that most residential developments have parking ratios around 0.5:1 and most office developments are providing zero parking, Sterling Bay’s big projects notwithstanding.

[LouisVanDerWright]

^^^ Exactly, the single biggest traffic issue in the area is Lake Street which needs to have 4 way stops because you have mass transit dumping pedestrians out onto a street that has extremely limited visibility. The congestion on Lake runs almost non stop from Ashland to the river. I drive my big — work truck with huge blind spots to your office all the time and never have an issue as long as I stay off Lake.

[BonoboZill4]

Originally Posted by Hourstrooper

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2019...re-parking-352-north-union-moving-ahead/

353 n union moving along should start relatively soon but with a height reduction.

Borderline unreadable article with the attempts at humor, and as Lurker pointed out, Editor is hitting hard with the inaccuracies once again...

Regardless, that tower should have some good impact when viewed along the Kennedy and fills in a nasty empty lot, so double win

[marothisu]

I was really only talking about a few streets, so I agree with you. Randolph at a few times was not good, but sometimes completely fine. Also I didn't say that the new residents are right now all about their cars. I was poking fun with that statement talking about when and if a lot more residential towers come to west loop, watch out for the parking increases like in other parts of downtown.


In any case, it's awesome that it might be moving forward. These big vacant lots hurt my eyes and my soul.