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Old Posted Aug 31, 2014, 3:36 PM
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Harry, your awesome. Great pics with some great "scenery" in the background.
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Old Posted Aug 31, 2014, 5:50 PM
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I forget if this one was already posted: 1018 N Larrabee. 9 units and retail.


Next phase of Parkside on Division: 106 units


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Old Posted Aug 31, 2014, 6:57 PM
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Pretty surprising! Thanks as always Spyguy.
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Old Posted Aug 31, 2014, 9:10 PM
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Nice, spyguy. Thanks.

So this phase is pretty exciting. Here's an aerial of the site from the architect's website:



I believe it's "The Cleveland" in the original site plan from the developer?



Clearly, the architecture is a huge upgrade from the bullshit Holsten Real Estate Development had been peddling. Not sure what finally made them see the light, but I guess we should be thankful that it happened at all.

Let's hope Landon Bone Baker is their new baseline for the rest of the development (i.e., "The Hobbie" and all the structures too small to get a name).
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Old Posted Aug 31, 2014, 9:18 PM
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BTW, looking at all these aerials, I have to ask: Was the City so desperate for redevelopment of the former Cabrini Green lands that they just said "fuck it" to establishing a rational street grid and let developers run wild? Because, Jesus, what a mess.
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^. I'm really happy to see the redesign of the newer phases if the Parkside. Agree that the earlier phase looks like shit.

All in all the street grid is intact, so i don't see the issue
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BTW, looking at all these aerials, I have to ask: Was the City so desperate for redevelopment of the former Cabrini Green lands that they just said "fuck it" to establishing a rational street grid and let developers run wild? Because, Jesus, what a mess.
The original grid is still there. They just Hanover Parkerized it in order to shoehorn in as many townhomes as they can.

Trash pickup and snow removal are gonna be a nightmare in these parking lots.
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A) Landon Bone Baker has always been the architect for ParkSide, but they had some turnover during the recession and successfully argued for a change in design direction (more billable hours, you know).

B) I agree that the street grid has been royally screwed, but the fault belongs to the Cabrini era, not the present. The planning goals in the current era have always called for restoring the street grid, but those planners were unable to overrule large institutions like CPD (the cops), CPD (the parks), and CPS who continue to advocate for "campus" style street closures at sites around the city. Usually these guys see neighborhood support for these closures as a way to reduce the vague evil of "cut-through traffic", even as they further congest the main streets and confuse outsiders.

C) The most recent draft of the Cabrini plan calls for more new street openings, and I think they will be more successful in the future. The most important streets will be Oak in the east-west direction and Cleveland in the north-south direction. Oak is just a matter of repaving a few blocks between Hudson and Orleans, and Cleveland will be entirely in the hands of CHA planners at the Cabrini Rowhomes site who will do the same street grid like ParkSide.

C) Townhouse developments and all other developments more than 6 units pay for private trash collection and snow removal on private streets.
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One of the recurring issues with Chicago's 330- by 660-foot grid is that it doesn't support sufficient density in townhouses or non-elevator/non highrise code buildings. A century ago, this was solved by having rear dwellings, as you still sometimes see in Old Town or Pilsen. But in the modern era, we end up resorting to all kinds of variations on parking courts, mewses, laneways, and units fronting pedestrian paths to get sufficient density to justify the land costs. You can see lots of examples on the ground in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, Dearborn Park II, and University Village.
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^. Chinatown as well.

I for one find this phenomenon a very "Chicago" thing, something I haven't really seen elsewhere. It creates a lot of housing variety, allowing for privacy while still having dwellings that properly address the street. My only beef is what lengths this city goes to to accommodate the car.
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Old Posted Sep 1, 2014, 1:01 AM
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^ For FUCKS SAKE, does anybody even read posts any more?

The very post you just quoted describes an adaptive reuse of an existing building, and here you are complaining about it being torn down.

Anyhow, I'm glad they are rehabbing that old property. That burgeoning little district needs to keep some of the old Chicago feel...

RELAX, I was on call that day and only had time to skim thru articles at the time.

Either way, I am glad that it is a reuse.
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Old Posted Sep 1, 2014, 1:48 AM
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^. I'm really happy to see the redesign of the newer phases if the Parkside. Agree that the earlier phase looks like shit.

All in all the street grid is intact, so i don't see the issue
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The original grid is still there. They just Hanover Parkerized it in order to shoehorn in as many townhomes as they can.

Trash pickup and snow removal are gonna be a nightmare in these parking lots.
I don't think I was very clear. I had in mind both Cabrini Green and its environs. South of Division, west of Lasalle, north of Chicago, and east the River the following happens:

Elm Street stops or starts no less than 9 times; Maple once; Hill twice; Wendell 4 times; Hobbie twice; Oak twice (I think; what is even going on between Kids Club Moody Church and Urban Village Church?); Walton twice; Locust 6 times; Chestnut 6 times; you get the idea, and, if you don't, just look at Google maps.

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A) Landon Bone Baker has always been the architect for ParkSide, but they had some turnover during the recession and successfully argued for a change in design direction (more billable hours, you know).
Get out. Unless I'm mistaken, they've scrubbed the earlier phases from their website...

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B) I agree that the street grid has been royally screwed, but the fault belongs to the Cabrini era, not the present. The planning goals in the current era have always called for restoring the street grid, but those planners were unable to overrule large institutions like CPD (the cops), CPD (the parks), and CPS who continue to advocate for "campus" style street closures at sites around the city. Usually these guys see neighborhood support for these closures as a way to reduce the vague evil of "cut-through traffic", even as they further congest the main streets and confuse outsiders.
So the CPDs and CPS have recently foiled urban planners' attempts to impose some sort of order here? Doesn't that mean the fault belongs just as much to the 'current era,' as you describe it?

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C) The most recent draft of the Cabrini plan calls for more new street openings, and I think they will be more successful in the future. The most important streets will be Oak in the east-west direction and Cleveland in the north-south direction. Oak is just a matter of repaving a few blocks between Hudson and Orleans, and Cleveland will be entirely in the hands of CHA planners at the Cabrini Rowhomes site who will do the same street grid like ParkSide.
As far as I can tell, Oak Street is the least fucked-up of the the east-west routes; the City would reach new levels of pathetic if it couldn't even iron out that kink.
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Oak is officially vacated between Hudson and the alley west of Orleans, but still paved and used for parking. It is definitely possible to drive or walk through on Oak - there used to be a little chain barrier, but it was pretty much destroyed after the Cabrini highrises came down.

I'm trying to point out that CHA planners in recent years have had good intentions when it comes to the street grid - when they are in charge, we get something like ParkSide. But they don't control the cops, schools, or parks and those agencies' misguided ideas about urban planning.
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I for one find this phenomenon a very "Chicago" thing, something I haven't really seen elsewhere. It creates a lot of housing variety, allowing for privacy while still having dwellings that properly address the street. My only beef is what lengths this city goes to to accommodate the car.
Eh, that's a pretty big beef to have if you ask me.

Moreover, cities should not be difficult to navigate; getting from point A to point B should be as easy as possible. Certainly, in many older cities, layers of historic architecture have been built around transit routes developed according to a more esoteric logic (at least by contemporary standards), and a more navigable city wouldn't necessarily be worth the destruction/reorganization. (Haussmann and his fans might beg to differ, of course.) But, IMO, there's not much of value in many former CHA lands even being sacrificed.

There are other considerations, too, like taking a public good and turning it into a de facto private one, which happens enough in Chicago even without adding a bunch of no outlet streets to the mix...
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Oak is officially vacated between Hudson and the alley west of Orleans, but still paved and used for parking. It is definitely possible to drive or walk through on Oak - there used to be a little chain barrier, but it was pretty much destroyed after the Cabrini highrises came down.

I'm trying to point out that CHA planners in recent years have had good intentions when it comes to the street grid - when they are in charge, we get something like ParkSide. But they don't control the cops, schools, or parks and those agencies' misguided ideas about urban planning.
No, I get it; I'm just thinking it's a shame the cops/schools/parks have been able to exert undue influence, especially considering these opportunities will not present themselves again.
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Progress at Notherly Island.



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Found the PDF for the plan for this park. Really cool stuff:
http://www.cpdit01.com/resources/pla...ork%20Plan.pdf

Based on the photo, though, looks like they're not building it exactly according to the plans from a couple years ago.
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The US Army Corps of Engineers won't be done with the site until 2017, so there could be more earth moved. I'm guessing at least they're going to bury that land bar in the lagoon once they don't need truck access anymore.
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Based on the photo, though, looks like they're not building it exactly according to the plans from a couple years ago.
It's a framework plan... they are building pieces as funding allows. In this case, the funding source is a grant from the Army Corps for habitat restoration. IIRC this grant is pretty small at about $5M and the scope of "habitat restoration" is pretty narrowly defined.

Hence, this project is mostly earthmoving and re-vegetating. To further keep costs down, the earthmoving balances cut and fill so that no soils are added or removed from the project site. The "park" elements of the site are not paid for with the Army Corps grant but with a small pot of local matching funds, so there aren't many of them - a few gravel paths, boardwalks, and a little bridge.

Other features will come in over time - George Lucas has already committed to funding a bridge connection to the island at Waldron Drive. I'm expecting the Park District to find a new use for the old Meigs terminal in the next few years as well.
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"men only hotel"
aka an SRO

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohisto...pages/613.html

anyway, i love that block. its an actual time machine. one day it will be razed and with it will go probably the last vestige of the seedy 70's era Loop.

btw, has anyone been to the jazz club on that block? ive always been meaning to go. im guessing the tourist quotient is a lot less than other downtown clubs.
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Nice, spyguy. Thanks.

So this phase is pretty exciting. Here's an aerial of the site from the architect's website:



I believe it's "The Cleveland" in the original site plan from the developer?



Clearly, the architecture is a huge upgrade from the bullshit Holsten Real Estate Development had been peddling. Not sure what finally made them see the light, but I guess we should be thankful that it happened at all.

Let's hope Landon Bone Baker is their new baseline for the rest of the development (i.e., "The Hobbie" and all the structures too small to get a name).
Tower crane for the building going up across from Target on SE corner of Division and Howe

Also, site prep on SE Division and Cleveland

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