CHICAGO | 725 W Randolph | 700 FT | 41 FLOORS

BVictor1 · #1 Posted **Oct 11, 2017, 6:20 PM**

https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/10/1...otel-high-rise

Equinox hotel to rise 58 stories above Chicago’s West Loop
The proposed high-rise would top out at 680 feet

BY JAY KOZIARZ OCT 11, 2017, 12:22PM CDT

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The plan to bring a combination residential/hotel development marketed under the Equinox Fitness Club brand to Chicago’s West Loop is finally coming into clearer focus. Reported originally in 2015 to be a 369-foot tower featuring 145 hotel rooms topped by 20 for-sale condominiums, the project at 725 W. Randolph has since grown considerably larger. According to zoning documents filed with the Chicago City Clerk, the latest plan now calls for a 680-foot skyscraper containing 165 hotel rooms and 370 residential units.

The project comes from Chicago-based developer Related Midwest who is in effect doubling down on the area after also submitting an application for a 51-story residential tower at Randolph and Peoria with partner Tucker Development. Equinox had announced plans to open as many as 75 fitness-oriented hotels around the world including a location at the Related Companies’ Hudson Yards megaproject in New York. Related acquired Equinox Fitness Clubs in 2006.

Contrary to earlier reports tapping New York-based Handel Architects to oversee the design, the 58-story Chicago tower comes from Perkins Eastman Architects and Roger Ferris + Partners. The plan also calls for an on-site fitness club, prominent exterior signage, and parking for 150 vehicles accessible via Court Place.

BVictor1 · #2 Posted **Oct 11, 2017, 6:46 PM**

The architecture firms listed.

http://www.perkinseastman.com/catego...16_residential

http://www.ferrisarch.com/index.html

emathias · #3 Posted **Oct 11, 2017, 7:08 PM**

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Looks like an enlarged Exhibit (aka Hojo Tower).

Kumdogmillionaire · #4 Posted **Oct 11, 2017, 7:46 PM**

I wouldn't put much weight on these drawings at all for what the rendering will look like, and if it is going to look like anything it's more likely to look like that 1035 W Van Buren than Exhibit(God willing...)

ChiTownWonder · #5 Posted **Oct 11, 2017, 8:39 PM**

The tower is projected to have "Prominent exterior signage"
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ardecila · #6 Posted **Oct 11, 2017, 8:41 PM**

The other elevations in the PD seem to indicate a tower with angled sides. I can't tell if the floor plates will be a parallelogram, or maybe a chevron. The plan views don't indicate the shape of the tower.

Cautiously optimistic about this one... it will fill in a big gap in the high rise wall developing west of the Kennedy. Also a nice gateway to the Randolph Market.

10023 · #7 Posted **Oct 11, 2017, 9:13 PM**

I am pleased about the "existing building to remain". It's a quite handsome 4-story brick building that spans the length of the block, with no curb cuts or parking entrances.

I also know that this is sacrilege on SSP, but hopefully there will be no further highrises west of this on Randolph. If that's not prevented by zoning then it should be. The last thing we need is for all of the interesting places (Au Cheval, Girl & the Goat, Bar Siena, Maude's, etc) replaced by whatever can afford ground floor retail rents in a condo building. Not to mention the inevitable destruction of the streetscape that occurs with Chicago-style parking podiums.

It's going to fuck up the skyline view from Soho House, but I suppose that was bound to happen at some point.

left of center · #8 Posted **Oct 11, 2017, 11:19 PM**

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I am pleased about the "existing building to remain". It's a quite handsome 4-story brick building that spans the length of the block, with no curb cuts or parking entrances.

I too would be very upset if the venerable and delicious Haymarket Brewery were to be demolished

Is that god awful BOA branch and parking lot on the corner of Halsted and Washington sticking around? I remember when they were building it around 10 years ago and thinking what a waste of real estate it was. I seriously hope I'm reading that drawing wrong...

10023 · #9 Posted **Oct 12, 2017, 8:11 AM**

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I too would be very upset if the venerable and delicious Haymarket Brewery were to be demolished

Is that god awful BOA branch and parking lot on the corner of Halsted and Washington sticking around? I remember when they were building it around 10 years ago and thinking what a waste of real estate it was. I seriously hope I'm reading that drawing wrong...

I'll have to admit that I've never been there (at least not that I remember). I don't really like that kind of American bar food (wings, nachos, anything with "ranch", etc), and it seems like such a waste to be in the neighborhood and not go to Au Cheval or the Publican, or something more sophisticated.

It sure seems like the BofA is staying.

But I don't mind that. It will be redeveloped at some point, and I would rather it be a different project to create a more varied block, rather than this building having a big podium that wraps around the Haymarket Brewery building.

rgarri4 · #10 Posted **Oct 13, 2017, 2:53 PM**

Here's a massing I did. My guess is the facade doesn't angle out and that its just the design of the mullions. Although it would be way more interesting if it did angle.

ardecila · #11 Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 7:49 AM**

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Here's a massing I did. My guess is the facade doesn't angle out and that its just the design of the mullions. Although it would be way more interesting if it did angle.

Now that I see your massing, I'm sure the tower is a parallelogram (like John Hancock in Boston). The tower in your images is too fat for residential, the spaces close to the core don't get any daylight so they're virtually useless as living spaces.

HomrQT · #12 Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 7:30 PM**

[QUOTE=rgarri4;7951141]Here's a massing I did. My guess is the facade doesn't angle out and that its just the design of the mullions. Although it would be way more interesting if it did angle.

Great work. This thing at 58 stories in that area has a solid visual impact.

emathias · #13 Posted **Oct 15, 2017, 5:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by 10023

I'll have to admit that I've never been there (at least not that I remember). I don't really like that kind of American bar food (wings, nachos, anything with "ranch", etc), and it seems like such a waste to be in the neighborhood and not go to Au Cheval or the Publican, or something more sophisticated.

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Not everyone wants to spend two hours waiting for a cheeseburger.

10023 · #14 Posted **Oct 29, 2017, 1:58 PM**

Is there a rendering yet or just the diagram?

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Not everyone wants to spend two hours waiting for a cheeseburger.

I've been to Au Cheval several times and have never waited. I have given up and gone to Girl & the Goat once. But I'd never take in that many calories for anything but really excellent food, so your standard pub burger or fast food is just not in my repertoire.

left of center · #15 Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 10:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by 10023

I'll have to admit that I've never been there (at least not that I remember). I don't really like that kind of American bar food (wings, nachos, anything with "ranch", etc), and it seems like such a waste to be in the neighborhood and not go to Au Cheval or the Publican, or something more sophisticated.

Haymarket's charm isn't its food (typical pub fare, done perhaps slightly above average). I am however a big fan of their in house microbrews!

aaron38 · #16 Posted **Oct 14, 2017, 9:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by left of center

Is that god awful BOA branch and parking lot on the corner of Halsted and Washington sticking around? I remember when they were building it around 10 years ago and thinking what a waste of real estate it was. I seriously hope I'm reading that drawing wrong...

Let this get built first, then the BofA lot will have guaranteed views over this development's parking structure east of that lot.

Randomguy34 · #17 Posted **Oct 11, 2017, 10:32 PM**

I'm in London at the moment for school stuff, and my dorm is across a tower call the Triton Building. The tower's facade is vertical and horizontal metal panels which extend past the building. I could imagine 725 W. Randolph looking similar to the Triton.

Source: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-48780380.html

r18tdi · #18 Posted **Oct 13, 2017, 6:24 PM**

Good stuff.

the urban politician · #19 Posted **Oct 14, 2017, 10:05 PM**

^ Yeah really, the BofA is a great future development opportunity. And in the meantime it at least provides a needed service for the community

10023 · #20 Posted **Oct 15, 2017, 7:27 AM**

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^ Yeah really, the BofA is a great future development opportunity. And in the meantime it at least provides a needed service for the community

Really? The last time I went into a bank was to open my account. I really can't figure out why they have so much physical presence.