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J_M_Tungsten · #**34741** Posted **Sep 6, 2016, 2:01 AM**

Today
Forgot about this thing by Sono

Apple Store 9/4

the urban politician · #**34742** Posted **Sep 6, 2016, 12:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by J_M_Tungsten

Today
Forgot about this thing by Sono

^ My hope is that bit by bit the North/Clybourn area will get built up like this, and slowly some of the suburban "scars" of the past will get redeveloped into a higher use

Jim in Chicago · #**34743** Posted **Sep 6, 2016, 2:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by wierdaaron

A sign just went up in a window of the vacant Artcraft building on S Clark, which has been owned by Scientology for years now without being touched. The sign is for NW Construction. Maybe they're about to actually do something with that place.

Just wondering if anyone knows what's going on at this site. Are the Scientologists still involved?

There have been people working on the facade for months, and they're there everyday but things are moving at a snails pace. I honestly can't see any real progress over the last weeks.

ardecila · #**34744** Posted **Sep 6, 2016, 6:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Busy Bee

^Well that is...something else. Looks like tilt-wall. Gag.

It is... but keep in mind that this is affordable housing on a shoestring budget, in one of the city's poorer Latino neighborhoods (West Humboldt). It was a vacant lot for years after a catastrophic fire burned down a Woolworth's in 1975.

My only gripe is that on such a major corner as North/Pulaski, it should really have retail space on the ground floor rather than vaguely-defined community space. Unfortunately the various funding sources for low-income housing don't really support mixed-use.

harryc · #**34745** Posted **Sep 6, 2016, 6:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by ardecila

It is... but keep in mind that this is affordable housing on a shoestring budget, in one of the city's poorer Latino neighborhoods (West Humboldt). It was a vacant lot for years after a catastrophic fire burned down a Woolworth's in 1975.

My only gripe is that on such a major corner as North/Pulaski, it should really have retail space on the ground floor rather than vaguely-defined community space. Unfortunately the various funding sources for low-income housing don't really support mixed-use.

In the late '70s it was an open pedestrian mall with a dozen or so small shops. A good source of fake ID's.

harryc · #**34746** Posted **Sep 7, 2016, 1:20 PM**

A Stearling Bay Hotel -- Need to use a Map (Curbed) to keep track of all the projects.

Aug 28

the old facade still affixed to the shipping containers

A nice view - while it lasts

BVictor1 · #**34747** Posted **Sep 7, 2016, 3:26 PM**

Tower crane for the Apple store being erected right now.

denizen467 · #**34748** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 3:28 AM**

^ Auspicious timing this Sept 7th. Maybe the crane boasts wide and zoom webcams as well as an A10 processor.

Rizzo · #**34749** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 6:31 AM**

Yeah and maybe when they finally complete the Apple Store they'll announce a MacBook Pro

KWILLSKYLINE · #**34750** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 3:27 PM**

Has anyone heard anything about this still happening after 465 is completed?

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2015...rville-meeting

jc5680 · #**34751** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 5:55 PM**

r18tdi · #**34752** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 7:46 PM**

Sweet shot!

harryc · #**34753** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 8:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by r18tdi

Sweet shot!

From a sweet shop ?

the urban politician · #**34754** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 8:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by jc5680

This vantage is going to look sick once Vista Tower's in that spot

maru2501 · #**34755** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 9:18 PM**

wasn't expecting they would need a crane that large

Busy Bee · #**34756** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 10:00 PM**

I look forward to the day where something... anything... is done to the hulking, rusting, horrendous civic disgrace that is the Wacker Drive Extension.

Zerton · #**34757** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 10:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by Busy Bee

I look forward to the day where something... anything... is done to the hulking, rusting, horrendous civic disgrace that is the Wacker Drive Extension.

Does it really bother you? It's so out of the way.

Steely Dan · #**34758** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 10:23 PM**

of all of the things that can be described as "horrendous civic disgraces" in chicago, i believe the wacker drive extension comes in at # 587.

Busy Bee · #**34759** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 10:56 PM**

You guys are right, its a beautiful piece of infrastructure. No problem here. Who am I to complain of the aesthetics of a triple decker behemoth built to highway visual standards in the postcard view of the river mouth. Those guys back in the twenties really overthought the original beaux-arts Wacker Drive design, they could have saved alot of money and built it to 1970's standards - no one would know the better.

Rizzo · #**34760** Posted **Sep 8, 2016, 11:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zerton

Does it really bother you? It's so out of the way.

I mentioned in a recent post, they demolished a nice limestone wall that screened Wacker. I'm assuming because it would cost money to maintain it.