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marothisu · #**43941** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 12:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

Well, Crain's is confused too about the site!
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/comm...digan-fbi-tape

Not the same project and the address is correct. They have this labeled as Archer and on the north side of the street. The one we were talking about's address is on Clark.

Rizzo · #**43942** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 2:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by Buckman821

Does anybody know what's happening on the southeast corner of Lawrence and Ashland?

It's an old autoshop that's all fenced off with construction signs. Would be great if something urban were going on that corner - which has just been such a mess for so so long.

I’m thinking this will look really close to the design at Irving and Ashland

sentinel · #**43943** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 3:49 PM**

Does anyone have current construction pics of the new Columbia College student center? I'm curious to see how it looks with the glazing installed..

SIGSEGV · #**43944** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 3:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by sentinel

Does anyone have current construction pics of the new Columbia College student center? I'm curious to see how it looks with the glazing installed..

I walked by the other day but was carrying things and couldn't snap a picture. Tons of progress since last time I walked by.

They have a webcam here:
https://www.colum.edu/news-and-event...onstructionVid

sentinel · #**43945** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 3:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

I walked by the other day but was carrying things and couldn't snap a picture. Tons of progress since last time I walked by.

They have a webcam here:
https://www.colum.edu/news-and-event...onstructionVid

Oh damn, thanks for the link! Didn't know about the webcam (or forgot about it

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Steely Dan · #**43946** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 4:06 PM**

anyone know what's going up at NW corner of ainslie/clark in uptown?

looks like they're doing foundation work for something, at least from what i could tell looking through the construction fencing.

the urban politician · #**43947** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 4:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

anyone know what's going up at NW corner of ainslie/clark in uptown?

looks like they're doing foundation work for something, at least from what i could tell looking through the construction fencing.

Would it be this?

https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/3/28...-clark-ainslie

Steely Dan · #**43948** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 4:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

Would it be this?

https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/3/28...-clark-ainslie

possibly, the addresses seem right, but the rendering in the article shows a mid-block building, and the site i saw this morning was right at the NW corner of clark & ainslie.

the urban politician · #**43949** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 4:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

possibly, the addresses seem right, but the rendering in the article shows a mid-block building, and the site i saw this morning was right at the NW corner of clark & ainslie.

I think it is this:

http://chicago47.org/wp-content/uplo...v.-7-12-17.pdf

4 stories, 54 units, 29 parking spaces.

NIMBYs must’ve gotten the density lowered, but parking also came down substantially from 1:1 due the street getting a new P designation

sentinel · #**43950** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 4:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

Would it be this?

https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/3/28...-clark-ainslie

I hope that's it, I like the design - There was a Curbed link to an earlier(?) design that was extremely dopey, from 2017

the urban politician · #**43951** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 4:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by sentinel

I hope that's it, I like the design - There was a Curbed link to an earlier(?) design that was extremely dopey, from 2017

No, the design was changed to this, be ready to gag:

https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/7/24...-clark-ainslie

ChiPlanner · #**43952** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 4:53 PM**

Don't know if this already came up, but proposed for the zoning commission is a 188' office building for the parking lot at the corner of Illinois and LaSalle Street. Looks like the formerly approved hotel is officially out.

aaron38 · #**43953** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 4:57 PM**

^^^ Nice. That's good scale infill. Are they taking 154 Hubbard as well? If the building behind is the same length east-west as the front, it would have to. And go from LaSalle to the mid-block alley.

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

No, the design was changed to this, be ready to gag:

https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/7/24...-clark-ainslie

I've seen worse. It'll be all real brick at that scale (probably precast for the beige accents). No podium, built to the lot lines, I can live with it, given what the rest of the street looks like.
Kind of looks like it's meant to match the Guesthouse Hotel down the street.

killaviews · #**43954** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 5:32 PM**

^^^ The other design was never proposed for that site. That was just the developer presenting examples of other projects. As you can see, the other rendering wasn't on a corner lot. I'm glad they got the P street designation. Some neighbors were fighting that.

The Lurker · #**43955** Posted **Jan 30, 2019, 9:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

No, the design was changed to this, be ready to gag:

https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/7/24...-clark-ainslie

Oh lord. Just add a tacky steeple and you have that weird new LDS meeting house at Clark and Chicago

marothisu · #**43956** Posted **Jan 31, 2019, 1:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by ChiPlanner

Don't know if this already came up, but proposed for the zoning commission is a 188' office building for the parking lot at the corner of Illinois and LaSalle Street. Looks like the formerly approved hotel is officially out.

I posted about this 4 days ago in the Highrise thread. See below. Also, the hotel is not officially out. The south side of the landmarked building is still a hotel. This is a different parcel and the owner of this parcel and the previous owner are or were in court over these 2 parcels (https://therealdeal.com/chicago/2018...rth-properties). Originally it was supposed to be a 300 unit apartment building and then Reilly declined it.

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Originally Posted by marothisu

There's a new zoning application for the corner of Illinois and La Salle where the landmarked building that used to have English bar was. In July 2017 on here there were some renderings floating around, but looks like the plan is different now.

The application now calls for a 12 story, 183.5 foot office building with ground floor retail/restaurant space (23,100 sq ft). No parking. Architect is Lamar Johnson Collaborative (which was purchased by Clayco recently). It looks like they will build on the intersection and also behind the landmarked building.

The previous design looked twice as tall as this. I found an article from last year talking about the court battle of the current owner Jamie Javors with Jake Porritt which included this lot. Apparently a 300 unit apartment building was going to be built here (probably the renderings floating around) but apparently Brendan Reilly rejected the plan (surprise surprise). It was changed to a 9 story office building after that, so it looks like they've at least added 3 more floors to that and it's more like the height of a standard 17 or 18 story building.

Barrelfish · #**43957** Posted **Jan 31, 2019, 3:45 PM**

Curbed: Some North Lakeshore Drive bus routes could be removed from city’s expanded TOD policy

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After voting in favor of an ordinance expanding the city’s transit-oriented development (TOD) zoning policy to eight high-frequency bus corridors, 46th Ward Alderman James Cappleman says he plans to amend the measure to specifically exclude routes along Lake Shore Drive in East Lakeview.

The decision to remove the #146 and #135 buses from the plan came after “speaking with a number of residents who are concerned about potential negative impacts from this ordinance,” said Cappleman’s office in an email on Monday. The move seemed largely out of character for the alderman who, in the past, has been a proponent of transit-oriented development in the 46th Ward.

“If you look at the ordinance, there aren’t even many properties along this stretch of Lake Shore Drive that would be eligible,” Tressa Feher, Cappleman’s chief of staff, told Curbed. “This came about because of a potential development in front of the 3660 [Lake Shore Drive] building.”

Arrgh!

SIGSEGV · #**43958** Posted **Jan 31, 2019, 3:53 PM**

Easy fix, make the 146 and 135 less frequent so they don't qualify!

Kenmore · #**43959** Posted **Jan 31, 2019, 4:03 PM**

cappleman is such a stooge

sentinel · #**43960** Posted **Feb 1, 2019, 5:18 PM**

Proposed new Loyola dorms on Winthrop: