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Chi-Sky21 · #**42441** Posted **Aug 14, 2018, 8:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by Baronvonellis

Yea, that horrible strip mall will be gone! Which is great news! Although instead of a standard development with ground floor retail and built lot line to lot line, he insisted on having a small surface lot at the corner with some shrubbery lol

It's like there's some Friends of the Strip Mall group that works with him

some shrubbery that looks nice, and not too expensive....

Jim in Chicago · #**42442** Posted **Aug 14, 2018, 9:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by Baronvonellis

Yea, that horrible strip mall will be gone! Which is great news! Although instead of a standard development with ground floor retail and built lot line to lot line, he insisted on having a small surface lot at the corner with some shrubbery lol

It's like there's some Friends of the Strip Mall group that works with him

Maybe he owns a dog and needs a place for it to go pee-pee.

the urban politician · #**42443** Posted **Aug 14, 2018, 9:49 PM**

Yeah, plus that parking lot can always get developed some time in the future

moorhosj · #**42444** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 3:49 PM**

Thought people would get a kick out of the name, Noca Blu

gebs · #**42445** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 4:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by moorhosj

Thought people would get a kick out of the name, Noca Blu

Haha, throwing meat with a stupid name to lions who hate meat with stupid names.

LouisVanDerWright · #**42446** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 4:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chi-Sky21

some shrubbery that looks nice, and not too expensive....

Next O'Conner will be asking for them to chop down the tallest tree in the forest..... WITHHHH A HERRING!

Zerton · #**42447** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 4:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by moorhosj

Thought people would get a kick out of the name, Noca Blu

This building used an unusual prefab aluminum floor frame system. I watched them raising up the pieces for a weeks.

maru2501 · #**42448** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 4:36 PM**

sounds like a vodka or something

"I'll have a NocaBlu and tonic please"

SDJackson · #**42449** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 4:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zerton

This building used an unusual prefab aluminum floor frame system. I watched them raising up the pieces for a weeks.

They got their architectural inspiration from a 4+1 on Kenmore in Edgewater.

west-town-brad · #**42450** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 4:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by SDJackson

They got their architectural inspiration from a 4+1 on Kenmore in Edgewater.

is it a 4+1 if the first floor is retail instead of parking?

Near North Resident · #**42451** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 5:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by moorhosj

Thought people would get a kick out of the name, Noca Blu

North of Chicago Ave. Bougie Living Unit?

RedCorsair87 · #**42452** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 5:42 PM**

NoCA Blue doesn't look too bad based on the website. I like the vertical lines. I think it would have looked better with some light grey brick.

Baronvonellis · #**42453** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 7:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

Next O'Conner will be asking for them to chop down the tallest tree in the forest..... WITHHHH A HERRING!

Haha, or demo the old strip mall ..... WITHHHH A HERRING!

Or blow up the strip mall with the The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!

Barrelfish · #**42454** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 8:12 PM**

I think it's Nocablu because it is North of the California Blue line. Probably named by the same people who named the nearby MiCa apartments at Milwaukee and California. Still dumb though.

Also, lol at this juxtaposition in their promotional copy:
"Noca Blu is soon to be the newest and most luxurious apartment living experience in Logan Square"..."We are creating an active community that is in tune with the heartbeat of the neighborhood"

Putting your "luxurious" apartments in Logan square is more "jarring discord" than "in tune".

The Lurker · #**42455** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 8:30 PM**

This one was topped out before I ever heard about it. Saw the completed frame in a picture a month or two ago and had to do a bunch of research to figure out what it was. I wish that would happen more often.

Anybody hear about the one at FUllerton & ClarK?

west-town-brad · #**42456** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 9:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Barrelfish

"Noca Blu is soon to be the newest and most luxurious apartment living experience in Logan Square"..."We are creating an active community that is in tune with the heartbeat of the neighborhood"

Putting your "luxurious" apartments in Logan square is more "jarring discord" than "in tune".

is this more in tune:

We are bringing you non-renovated, poorly maintained, and undesirable housing at low low affordable prices.... looking for an illegally converted garden apartment that floods when it rains? logan square is your place! cash only please and no written leases.

AlpacaObsessor · #**42457** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 10:00 PM**

All of these shitty abbreviations remind me of SoDoSoPa and CtPa Town from South Park

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marothisu · #**42458** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 10:28 PM**

In case anybody cares and pays attention to this stuff, the COO/CIO (aka global head of technology) of PNC Bank bought a mansion in Lincoln Park recently near where the CEO of Kellogg's just bought a mansion. Also the president of Fargo based Swanson Health Products (who has a Chicago office) bought at 800 N Michigan. He's the son of the founder and also bought a condo in Billionaires Row in NYC a handful of years ago.

kolchak · #**42459** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 10:56 PM**

1323 West Morse Avenue

AND...

6843 North Sheridan Road

the urban politician · #**42460** Posted **Aug 16, 2018, 1:24 PM**

Finally! A proposal to kill off Aldermanic preoregative. It’s also a way to increase housing supply, which many of us have proposed as the fairer way to create affordable housing than passing laws that criminalize landlords and rob them of their rights:

https://blog.chicagocityscape.com/al...s-9dc1e11fa7b0

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Aldermen start push to desegregate Chicago neighborhoods

If a ward doesn’t have enough affordable housing, then a project that meets the on-site AH requirements could not be blocked

Earlier this year, the Metropolitan Planning Council released a study called “The Cost of Segregation” detailing the effects of racial and income segregation in Chicago, and outlining necessary institutional reforms to address the effects of racism in the city. By ending segregation, Chicago would have a stronger economy, higher earnings for Black residents, provide residents access to better schools, and lower crime rates.

A key recommendation to reduce segregation in Chicago’s housing market is to counterbalance the negative effects of “local control” by automatically approving certain multi-family housing proposals.
MPC’s specific suggestion is that “when a residential development with at least 10 percent affordability is proposed in a ward with less than 10 percent affordable housing, the proposed development can no longer be rejected or delayed indefinitely by the Alderman alone”.