CHICAGO | General Developments - Page 1921

Chi-Sky21 · #**38401** Posted **Sep 18, 2017, 2:50 PM**

Site photogs (Harry, Solar, etc.) you guys should really give your photo chronicles of development to the architecture society or some other group for preservation. It would be a waste to not have all this history of Chicagos construction not saved somewhere.

Chi-Sky21 · #**38402** Posted **Sep 18, 2017, 5:45 PM**

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aaron38 · #**38403** Posted **Sep 18, 2017, 9:45 PM**

Fulton Market Office Building To Feature Multi-tiered Terraces
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2017...hman-wakefield

375 N. Morgan, 11 stories.

harryc · #**38404** Posted **Sep 18, 2017, 10:27 PM**

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Fulton Market Office Building To Feature Multi-tiered Terraces
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2017...hman-wakefield

375 N. Morgan, 11 stories.

A moment of silence for initiative unrewarded - 2013

SolarWind · #**38405** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 2:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chi-Sky21

Site photogs (Harry, Solar, etc.) you guys should really give your photo chronicles of development to the architecture society or some other group for preservation. It would be a waste to not have all this history of Chicagos construction not saved somewhere.

I was already thinking about doing that at some point, several decades down the road. I have tens of thousands of pictures that I've taken of Chicago during the past eleven years. I post a very small percentage of them here.

SolarWind · #**38406** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 2:15 AM**

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SolarWind · #**38410** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 2:18 AM**

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Glazing in progress ^

SolarWind · #**38411** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 2:21 AM**

September 18, 2017

Marlowe in the background, Bentham site in the foreground & FLATS to the right.

SolarWind · #**38412** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 2:22 AM**

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emathias · #**38413** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 3:20 AM**

The conversion of the single-story building on the SW corner of Huron-Wells to a CVS is well underway - interior demo was done a couple weeks ago and now they have it fenced off and have torn off some of the exterior walls. It'll be interesting to see how it looks when it's fully completed.

10023 · #**38414** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 8:37 AM**

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September 18, 2017

Really? They're building these out of cinderblock?

denizen467 · #**38415** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 8:57 AM**

In this era of national chains, one solid sign of a vibrant urban core is having a local bodega / convenience mart chain that thrives amid its deep-pocketed competition. It was a little depressing when even the large White Hen was lost to the rather ugly and unappealing 7-Eleven several years ago. (It felt a bit like a smaller-stakes repeat of all the Marshall Fields stores transmogrifying into Macys.)

But now it seems South Loop Market is growing as a new local chain. It seems it's emerging as a brand so well that ... they're about to open up at Wellington & Sheffield -- and keeping their name, South Loop Market. Assuming they aren't going to be stocking exclusively White Sox paraphernelia or something, they've probably got a decent shot at success; they're reasonably sleek and almost every 7-Eleven I've seen is just scuzzy, with filthy exteriors and parking lots. (Or maybe there's just too much north-south partisanship?) The idea that a geographic brand borne of a neighborhood created from scratch two decades ago could suddenly become a new citywide thing is an unusually cool example of neighborhood cross-pollination.

There's also GoGrocer, but I don't know much about their story; they seem like a slightly cleaner and denser 7-Eleven.

Foxtrot on the other hand is more upscale, or at least hipster, but is not as full service as the others.

aaron38 · #**38416** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 12:52 PM**

I was looking at the renderings for 375 N. Morgan again and I have a question. Why does that stretch of Kinzie there between Morgan and Peoria rise up? What was or is there to cause that?

ithakas · #**38417** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 12:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by 10023

Really? They're building these out of cinderblock?

Just like the Italianate rowhouses of yore

gebs · #**38418** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 2:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by denizen467

But now it seems South Loop Market is growing as a new local chain. It seems it's emerging as a brand so well that ... they're about to open up at Wellington & Sheffield -- and keeping their name, South Loop Market.

They're also opening a new location at 9th/State, on the ground floor of the Astoria tower, which is of particular note to me as I live mere blocks from there. It's a great local success story, and it's a block south of a 7/11 and a woefully under-stocked Urban Grocer.

10023 · #**38419** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 2:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by denizen467

In this era of national chains, one solid sign of a vibrant urban core is having a local bodega / convenience mart chain that thrives amid its deep-pocketed competition. It was a little depressing when even the large White Hen was lost to the rather ugly and unappealing 7-Eleven several years ago. (It felt a bit like a smaller-stakes repeat of all the Marshall Fields stores transmogrifying into Macys.)

These were corporate acquisitions. They had absolutely nothing to do with the vibrancy of Chicago's urban core.

Jibba · #**38420** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 3:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by SolarWind

September 18, 2017

I'm going to get skewered for this, but I don't think this looks terrible. It feels very substantial and vertical, and that steeple is great.

It's like accidental Tigerman-esque Post Modern.