^^^ Oh come off it, it's only ugly because of the heinous salmon color they painted it. It's a fantastic piece of Chicago history that was re purposed by a great architect. It would be a massive loss to see it torn down just because you think it's not pretty enough to save. So freaking short sighted. Some of the units have downright amazing vaulted brick ceilings. This is a mild example of that, I can't find any pictures of the reallllly big vaults in some units:
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I'm constantly amazed at the architectural and historic ignorance of people who want X or Y building torn down because they don't fancy it despite the fact they know nothing about it. Also, remember this is a condo conversion of an extremely hard to convert industrial building that was done in 1981. This is an EXTREMELY early example of adaptive reuse and is remarkable in that right as well. I would go as far as to say that Weese did a much better job of reusing a cold storage facility than Sterling Bay did at 1000 Fulton. It's also probably only in bad shape because it has been almost 40 years since it was last really overhauled. Buildings need tuck pointing at least that often, just another example of a lack of "depreciation appreciation" in that everyone who thinks it is ugly is too thick to figure out that every building gets constantly uglier until someone catches up on deferred maintenance and returns it to like-new condition.
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Originally Posted by ithakas
The bKL project next to the Western blue line we heard about a week or two ago? I ask because Armitage/Milwaukee's SW corner is also a large vacant lot, but your address is technically Western/Milwuakee.
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I was mistaken, you must be correct. Good news anyhow that they are already in for zoning.
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