CHICAGO | General Developments

[spyguy]

Originally Posted by Via Chicago

Maybe I missed something about the Ace, but weren't they reusing a warehouse? I don't see much of anything remaining.

Yes, the facade is temporarily attached to the shipping containers shown in first photo:

Originally Posted by brandon03

Ace Hotel in Fulton Market well under way. Crane going in next week.

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Some other Fulton Market developments I haven't seen posted:

1032 W Fulton - office/ retail designed by HPA. New 5 story building plus one story addition to the existing brick building



1043 W Fulton - retail (Sterling Bay)


1100 W Fulton - retail/office (Sterling Bay)


1115 W Fulton - retail/office (McCaffery Interests)


1201 W Lake - retail/office. Looks like another Antunovich special from McCaffery. Hopefully they don't land tenants before the much better Sterling Bay/Shapack office developments

[VKChaz]

Saw a sign posted for 2050 (?) N Clark. IIRC: 6 story, 34 units, with 30 parking spaces on the first floor. Just wondered if anyone was familiar with the plans for this....

[aaron38]

The two towers at Milwaukee and California are coming along nicely. Up to the sixth floor I think. Looks good next to the L stop. Couldn't get a picture unfortunately.

[ithakas]

Kimski is almost done; a Polish-Korean restaurant on the vacant lot next to Maria's in Bridgeport. Looks interesting, evokes mid-century LA to me:


Source: Eater

[ChickeNES]

Loop retail vacancy lowest since at least 2002
Ryan Ori - Crain's Chicago Business - 3/7/2016

With more retailers pouring into the Loop in 2015, vacancy reached its lowest level in at least 14 years.

Overall vacancy fell to 9.9 percent last year, the lowest point since Stone Real Estate began compiling a Loop report in 2002, according to the Chicago-based retail brokerage.

Vacancy the past two years was 10.8 percent, which had been the lowest level. It peaked at 18.2 percent in 2004.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/reale...-vacancy-falls

[spyguy]

Looks like 1920 N Milwaukee has changed a bit.


http://www.1920milwaukee.com/

[J_M_Tungsten]

Saw a rendering of a 6 story rental building posted on the old Union Park Lounge on the NW corner of Jackson/Racine. Not sure of a timeline though.

[Via Chicago]

Originally Posted by spyguy

Looks like 1920 N Milwaukee has changed a bit.


http://www.1920milwaukee.com/

original for reference:



i liked the way the silver/grey played off the CTA station, but still not bad

[ardecila]

The address number at the top of the building is a little cheezy...

[the urban politician]

^ Really? It looks nice to me

[Via Chicago]

Originally Posted by ardecila

The address number at the top of the building is a little cheezy...

eh, its better than the mid 00's Wrigleyville condos that have all sorts of stupid half-assed branding etched into them. i just saw one that had "Imagine" carved in big block letters up there

[emathias]

Originally Posted by Via Chicago

eh, its better than the mid 00's Wrigleyville condos that have all sorts of stupid half-assed branding etched into them. i just saw one that had "Imagine" carved in big block letters up there

There's a vintage building on the NE corner of LaSalle and Superior with the name "Justus" above the door on the Superior side. I always kinda liked that, although it is fairly discrete.

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by Via Chicago

eh, its better than the mid 00's Wrigleyville condos that have all sorts of stupid half-assed branding etched into them. i just saw one that had "Imagine" carved in big block letters up there

woof

[Mr Downtown]

If you look closely at the vintage apartment buildings of Chicago, you'll learn the names of many developers' wives and daughters.

Same with streetnames in postwar suburbs.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by Via Chicago

eh, its better than the mid 00's Wrigleyville condos that have all sorts of stupid half-assed branding etched into them. i just saw one that had "Imagine" carved in big block letters up there

back in another lifetime, i lived across the street from one of those wrigleyville 6-flats that was under construction at the time. it's called "The Sheffield", but someone fucked up the shop drawing review because when the first etched stone block was installed, it was spelled "The Scheffield", LOL!

the error was eventually, and sadly, corrected.

[mattshoe]

^The building across the street from me says "Kyiv" at the top. ha.

[Ned.B]

Originally Posted by Via Chicago

eh, its better than the mid 00's Wrigleyville condos that have all sorts of stupid half-assed branding etched into them. i just saw one that had "Imagine" carved in big block letters up there

I don't know if that is too different from the 1923 Fullerton State bank in Lincoln Park that reads "Perfection" over the front door.

[Via Chicago]

Originally Posted by Ned.B

I don't know if that is too different from the 1923 Fullerton State bank in Lincoln Park that reads "Perfection" over the front door.

Its not, although Id argue it was heavy handed then too

[Mr Downtown]

The Fullerton State Bank failed in 1931. In 1937 the building was sold to the Perfection Burial Garment Co., who added the sign.

[emathias]

I like it when buildings have names in foreign languages reflecting the immigration history of the neighborhood. Like some of the Norwegian churches in Logan Square, for example.