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BVictor1 · #**1541** Posted **Aug 27, 2016, 3:43 AM**

08/24/16

N830MH · #**1542** Posted **Aug 27, 2016, 5:04 PM**

Please let me know when they built. I would like to see that.

Hopefully if they start construction. This thread will moved to Supertall construction forum.

sentinel · #**1543** Posted **Aug 27, 2016, 9:44 PM**

Don't worry, it will...we're all waiting for construction of this giant to start

N830MH · #**1544** Posted **Aug 28, 2016, 2:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by sentinel

Don't worry, it will...we're all waiting for construction of this giant to start

Thank you. I know you will. We will count on you.

LouisVanDerWright · #**1545** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 7:28 PM**

Markers all over site that I assume are finally cassion markers. Drilling looks imminent on this one. Also, holy crap they pulled a lot of concrete(with lots of rebar) out of the ground. Was there ever something else built here?

Steely Dan · #**1546** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 7:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

Also, holy crap they pulled a lot of concrete(with lots of rebar) out of the ground. Was there ever something else built here?

it could have been foundations from the notorious LSD "S-curve" route that went directly over this site back in the old days.

LSD S-Curve by David B. Gleason, on Flickr

the urban politician · #**1547** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 8:03 PM**

^ That looks like that would explain it.

Another benefit of realigning LSD all those years ago--creating future space for the Vista Tower

maru2501 · #**1548** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 9:11 PM**

pretty amazing photo

BVictor1 · #**1549** Posted **Aug 30, 2016, 4:10 PM**

I'm always in awe of this image.

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

it could have been foundations from the notorious LSD "S-curve" route that went directly over this site back in the old days.

LSD S-Curve by David B. Gleason, on Flickr

08/30/16

BrandonJXN · #**1550** Posted **Aug 30, 2016, 4:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by maru2501

pretty amazing photo

https://cbschicago.files.wordpress.c...ve-reroute.jpg

Man Lakeshore East looks like scorched earth.

https://www.chipublib.org/wp-content...985-aerial.jpg

LouisVanDerWright · #**1551** Posted **Aug 30, 2016, 5:25 PM**

It's amazing how downtown Chicago has transformed from a post-industrial apocalyptic moonscape to the dense, vibrant, central core it is today in like 30-40 years. This building is like the ! on that process.

go go white sox · #**1552** Posted **Aug 30, 2016, 5:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by BrandonJXN

https://cbschicago.files.wordpress.c...ve-reroute.jpg

Man Lakeshore East looks like scorched earth.

https://www.chipublib.org/wp-content...985-aerial.jpg

What year or decade would you guess these pics were taken? It really is amazing to see the change, crazy thing is Chicago still has so many more acres is land to build on

BVictor1 · #**1553** Posted **Aug 30, 2016, 5:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by go go white sox

What year or decade would you guess these pics were taken? It really is amazing to see the change, crazy thing is Chicago still has so many more acres is land to build on

They're from the mid-1980's. That's when the re-routing of LSD occurred.

go go white sox · #**1554** Posted **Aug 30, 2016, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by BVictor1

They're from the mid-1980's. That's when the re-routing of LSD occurred.

Wow that's not really that long ago what I transformation

the urban politician · #**1555** Posted **Aug 30, 2016, 7:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

It's amazing how downtown Chicago has transformed from a post-industrial apocalyptic moonscape to the dense, vibrant, central core it is today in like 30-40 years. This building is like the ! on that process.

When was downtown Chicago ever a post-industrial apocalyptic landscape?

Sure the area that is presently Lakeshore East and thereabouts was, but that's about it.

Edit: Actually don't answer that. The very next post in this thread should be pictures of foundation drilling

Pilton · #**1556** Posted **Aug 30, 2016, 8:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

When was downtown Chicago ever a post-industrial apocalyptic landscape?

Sure the area that is presently Lakeshore East and thereabouts was, but that's about it.

History of New East Side: http://www.neweastside.org/History.html

Lakeshore East: http://www.som.com/projects/lakeshore_east_master_plan

I even remember the golf course. Kudos to Metropolitan Structures for bringing us the New East Side and Magellan for bringing us Lakeshore East and Vista Tower.

Tom In Chicago · #**1557** Posted **Aug 30, 2016, 9:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by go go white sox

What year or decade would you guess these pics were taken? It really is amazing to see the change, crazy thing is Chicago still has so many more acres is land to build on

Probably between 1983 and 1985. . .

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Koernerstr32 · #**1558** Posted **Aug 31, 2016, 2:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

When was downtown Chicago ever a post-industrial apocalyptic landscape?

Sure the area that is presently Lakeshore East and thereabouts was, but that's about it.

Edit: Actually don't answer that. The very next post in this thread should be pictures of foundation drilling

TUP, Huh? Ok, I won't answer further since you realized your bigger mistake.

LouisVanDerWright · #**1559** Posted **Aug 31, 2016, 6:16 AM**

TUP, you do realize that virtually everything surrounding the Loop was industrial up until the 1980's or 1990's right? I mean Streeterville, River North, West Loop, South Loop, etc. All those nice historic loft buildings that are now fancy condos were once warehouses or factories. For a few decades there was a Chicago (and continues to be a Chicago) where vast amounts of central city were just up and abandoned by industrial interests which went overseas or to greenfield sites in the suburbs. I can't even fathom what downtown must of been like before I was born. This little island of office buildings in the midst of a sea of despair. No wonder everyone decamped to the suburbs.

harryc · #**1560** Posted **Aug 31, 2016, 10:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

When was downtown Chicago ever a post-industrial apocalyptic landscape?

Sure the area that is presently Lakeshore East and thereabouts was, but that's about it.

Edit: Actually don't answer that. The very next post in this thread should be pictures of foundation drilling

Back in the '70s when I brought people into Chicago for the first time I had a standard route, which would end up at the circle interchange race under the post office and then quickly drop down onto lower Wacker - with the old green lights - going too fast - I'd cut off at lower Michigan race between some buildings and pop out in a field with train cars, tracks, a massive billboard, and one white minimalist building (Standard Oil). from down there, with the elevated roads around you the rest of the city was invisible. As I try to figure out exactly where that was my best guess is the site of the new Wanda tower.

Aug 19

Looking S where Lake Shore Drive ran before the straightening.

Part of the old billboard ? The easily climbed one at the corner as you headed south on LSD

Railroad ties and trees buried for 30+ years

Aug 25
An optimistic curb cut put in several decades ago.