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[dewbs]

[BrickellBased]

Oh now they are cooking

Steel will go up super fast. This should be fun.

Originally Posted by dewbs

[lakeshoredrive]

Nice to see a big development actually happening. I really do hope this will spur further development around the area. I know there are some proposals, but who know if they will end up happening.

[Chi-Sky21]

Maybe its the viewpoint but the riverwalk area at least north end does not look that wide.

[BrickellBased]

Originally Posted by Chi-Sky21

Maybe its the viewpoint but the riverwalk area at least north end does not look that wide.

https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city...D1426-RevisedSitePlanApproval-Casino.pdf

Page 39: TLDR the setback from the casino to the water will be 30' and the pedestrian path will be 16' minimum. There are sections A-E where design varies.

I think it's actually the same as the distance as near the hotel on the south end (Section D I believe in the PDF), it's just a bit of a perspective issue. The Tribune lot is enormous and so is the casino and from this angle it looks small. Also the construction fencing obscures it further up.

There will also be floating planters and terraced overlook on section A extending out into the river a bit.

16' is pretty generous and some sections of the south riverwalk downtown I think are 8' which is one of my only real gripes about the current riverwalk.

I think they allotted way too much space for boat docking which is used like 2% of total time people are spending down there year round. I wish some sections came out further and had no boat docs. There are so many 90 degree angle bottlenecks there

[r18tdi]

Originally Posted by lakeshoredrive

Nice to see a big development actually happening. I really do hope this will spur further development around the area. I know there are some proposals, but who know if they will end up happening.

The one nearby project that I'd like to see happen, which seems more like a concrete plan compared to the conceptual placeholders rendering text to the casino, is the "NOMA" Salvation Army redevelopment. It called for an adaptive reuse of the SA building into a boutique hotel plus some ground-up towers, one exceeded 600 feet.

[BVictor1]

10.05.25

[BVictor1]

10.10.25

[dewbs]

[dewbs]

Filling in along the river, both to the north and connecting to the tower.

[cloudbod]

I was really surprised by the scale of this thing when I swung by on Tuesday-- these first few levels are gonna be absolutely cavernous. Are these triple- or quadruple-height ceilings??



Look how tiny the workers are by comparison!



Also, watching four cranes operate simultaneously is pretty hypnotic:

[BrickellBased]

Originally Posted by cloudbod

I was really surprised by the scale of this thing when I swung by on Tuesday-- these first few levels are gonna be absolutely cavernous. Are these triple- or quadruple-height ceilings??



Look how tiny the workers are by comparison!



Also, watching four cranes operate simultaneously is pretty hypnotic:

Not sure those are the final heights. Looks like they are bisecting some of the floors starting on the north side of the building. Not sure what the renderings show though as the final.

[sentinel]

A few weeks ago, I griped about how this would never be completed by next fall/winter, per the owner’s schedule. I take back that comment lol.
I’m impressed at how quickly this is flying.

[BrickellBased]

Originally Posted by sentinel

A few weeks ago, I griped about how this would never be completed by next fall/winter, per the owner’s schedule. I take back that comment lol.
I’m impressed at how quickly this is flying.

Often $1.7B projects like this take 5+ years to complete. Getting this done in ~18 months is a big shot of development downtown in a very short time window.

Also with the 78 Chicago Fire Stadium, Spire site finally redeveloped, and Google rennovation, downtown is quietly rocking in what seems like a down cycle.

[sentinel]

Originally Posted by BrickellBased

Often $1.7B projects like this take 5+ years to complete. Getting this done in ~18 months is a big shot of development downtown in a very short time window.

Also with the 78 Chicago Fire Stadium, Spire site finally redeveloped, and Google rennovation, downtown is quietly rocking in what seems like a down cycle.

That's the power of having not one, large general contractor, but a consortium of 5-6 large GCs, working in unison.

[Cress3803]

what was the final height on the tower?

[twister244]

Originally Posted by Cress3803

what was the final height on the tower?

I have it marked at 447 feet - 34 stories, but feel free to correct me.

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by cloudbod

I was really surprised by the scale of this thing when I swung by on Tuesday-- these first few levels are gonna be absolutely cavernous. Are these triple- or quadruple-height ceilings??

Not unusual for a large hotel.

Also that middle section between the tower and the casino is where the theater will go, so you've got different floor heights in the theater to line up with. The lower levels of the tower may serve as lobby and prefunction spaces for the theater, or ballrooms and meeting spaces. That means jumbo-sized HVAC systems, supplemental structure for movable partitions, complex AV systems, etc.

[dewbs]

[lakeshoredrive]

Wow! The casino portion should be topped out soon enough, even if it's not monumental.