CHICAGO | General Developments

[Baronvonellis]

Originally Posted by west-town-brad

He should have stated: low quality products made by very low paid people who happen to live in the country of China.

Sorry, no offense. Yes, this. Poorly made consumer products made outside the US.

[AMWChicago]

Does anyone know whats going on just south of the Essex development on Michigan? I saw a crane the other day in a very narrow lot.

[gebs]

Originally Posted by AMWChicago

Does anyone know whats going on just south of the Essex development on Michigan? I saw a crane the other day in a very narrow lot.

I brought this up on Tuesday but didn't get a response. My theory is that they're getting ready to convert the Johnson Publishing (Jet / Ebony) building to residential use, and it will require a crane of some sort.

[Mr Downtown]

Yes, working on the Johnson Publishing Bldg residential conversion, which requires creating a light well by carving away part of the northern wall. The crane looks like it has a skip bucket to take out demolished material by going up and over the roof of the building. That made me wonder why the Old Post Office didn't use a similar setup instead of the very expensive helicopter lifts.

[SolarWind]

April 19, 2018

[Fvn]

Originally Posted by SolarWind

April 19, 2018

Signs of life!

[10023]

Originally Posted by BuildThemTaller

It is most definitely a park, complete with trees, gardens, workout equipment, a track, tennis courts, a fieldhouse, and playground. They have summer movies in the park there, too. What more does this park need to be a real park? The large grass area in the middle used to include two heavily used softball fields. The local residents complained of softballs hitting their dogs or children and so the local alderman had the backstops and infields ripped out in the summer of 2017.

Ok, so my knowledge of it is a whole 9 months out of date. Someone could have just said that.

Originally Posted by the urban politician

He's thinking about a park in London where a bunch of lads are playing Cricket, shouting "The bloody Bat-Pad got the fuckin ball, mate!" followed later by a couple of pints of Newcastles at the local pub.

Impossible. You can only get a pint of Newcastle in Newcastle. Everywhere else it’s only sold in bottles.

[KWillChicago]

Nobu movement? Didn't see that one coming.

[r18tdi]

Spotted soil testing yesterday at the northwest corner of Van Buren and Racine (next to Wise Owl).
Is there a proposal floating around for that site?

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by r18tdi

Spotted soil testing yesterday at the northwest corner of Van Buren and Racine (next to Wise Owl).
Is there a proposal floating around for that site?

The developers are converting the old Oxxford Clothes factory into loft office.

They are considering adding two floors on top of the old building - sometimes the foundations are strong enough to do this, especially if the expected loads from the office use are a fraction of the loads from a warehouse use, but you need to perform careful and detailed tests on the soil and the existing foundations... what you saw is probably part of this work.

I believe their plan was to leave the corner site as a parking lot for the foreseeable future, but maybe they have plans to build a small parking structure there, or maybe the old foundations weren't as strong as they thought so they need to build a lowrise annex on the corner to get the SF they want.

[Via Chicago]

Originally Posted by KWillChicago

Nobu movement? Didn't see that one coming.

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by Via Chicago

Are you kidding me? My left ball could pull Nobu off at this point.

Permit lined up
Partially constructed
Contractors, subs, budget in place
Neighborhood’s on fire

I mean, all the difficult work has been taken care of.

[r18tdi]

Originally Posted by ardecila

The developers are converting the old Oxxford Clothes factory into loft office.

They are considering adding two floors on top of the old building - sometimes the foundations are strong enough to do this, especially if the expected loads from the office use are a fraction of the loads from a warehouse use, but you need to perform careful and detailed tests on the soil and the existing foundations... what you saw is probably part of this work.

I believe their plan was to leave the corner site as a parking lot for the foreseeable future, but maybe they have plans to build a small parking structure there, or maybe the old foundations weren't as strong as they thought so they need to build a lowrise annex on the corner to get the SF they want.

Cool! Thanks for the info

[LA21st]

Originally Posted by BuildThemTaller

There is a park with a running track, tennis courts, fieldhouse, playground, etc. 2 blocks north of this plot of land. And then there is the lakefront path a block east of it and Ohio Street beach just a little beyond that. With the number of hospitals in the area, though, it would be really nice to have a public green space there for the patients and their families.

i used to live next to that park. It was great.

[marothisu]

Building permit issued yesterday to covert the 12 story and 6 story office buildings at 5050 N Broadway (Broadway & Argyle) to 342 units and mercantile space.

[killaviews]

Originally Posted by marothisu

Building permit issued yesterday to covert the 12 story and 6 story office buildings at 5050 N Broadway (Broadway & Argyle) to 342 units and mercantile space.

That’s great. I saw moving trucks there yesterday. The few tenants that were there must be vacating.

[harryc]

April 1

[the urban politician]

^ Any active work happening?

[marothisu]

1) The Shell gas station at North & Ashland was issued a demo permit the other day. This is where that proposed half prison looking 8 story, 99 room hotel (Hilton or Hyatt apparently) will go

Source: Ronald Vari



2) Building permit issued on Wednesday to build out 123 residential units in the 6th floor (plus 1st floor lobby) of The Fields at 4000 W Diversey (the former Marshall Fields warehouse --> http://thefieldschicago.com/)

[west-town-brad]

Originally Posted by the urban politician

^ Any active work happening?

nope.

congress pizza though (close by) now has construction fencing and demolition looks imminent!