CHICAGO | General Developments

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[Rizzo]

Thanks solar for the excellent updates

[ithakas]

Chicago Cityscape has pictures of the new Park District headquarters under construction:
https://www.chicagocityscape.com/blo...ion-12df56f0a3

[ChiPlanner]

Originally Posted by ithakas

https://chicagoyimby.com/2022/05/dem...-new-city.html

Snagged a pic last night, it's already coming down

[r18tdi]

Originally Posted by ChiPlanner

Snagged a pic last night, it's already coming down

Shame that old building is not in Fulton. It'd be trendy loft condos, tech offices, a boutique hotel, or a food hall by now.

[SIGSEGV]

Southbridge from the Green Line today

[LouisVanDerWright]

Originally Posted by ChiPlanner

Snagged a pic last night, it's already coming down

Total waste.

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

Southbridge from the Green Line today

Very beige.

This could be pretty elegant with a varied blend of brick like they used on Triangle Square's condo building. Instead it looks like ugly River North concrete, even though they paid a premium for hand-laid brick!

[Randomguy34]

We at least have one preservation win, DL3 Realty will preserve the Washington Park National Bank Building instead of tearing it down! It looks like the CCLB took initiative for once

The veteran developer, with many successes on the South Side, said people who wanted the old building saved were unrealistic. The property remained in the hands of the Cook County Land Bank Authority, whose mission is to encourage development of difficult properties, especially in poor areas.

Eleanor Gorski took over as executive director of the land bank last year and took a fresh look at the property. An architect and former staff member at Chicago’s Planning Department, Gorski kept in touch with Walker because the land bank felt he had submitted the best proposal when it advertised the property’s sale. She used the pandemic pause to urge Walker to think anew.

“I wanted the whole building preserved. The numbers just didn’t allow it. And yet, it’s such an iconic structure in the neighborhood,” Gorski said.

The numbers penciled out for that old friend of disparate views: the compromise. Walker has agreed to preserve the building’s limestone façade and its once elegant windows and entrances. Behind the five-story façade would be new construction, about 75,000 square feet, for offices Walker wants to market to neighborhood entrepreneurs.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/5/...erprise-roeder

[the urban politician]

A facadectomy is better than nothing

[r18tdi]

Originally Posted by the urban politician

A facadectomy is better than nothing

Really the best anyone could have hoped for in this situation. The existing building was severely compromised... IIRC, the roof was basically gone and there was a multi-story tree growing through the middle of the structure.

[Handro]

I saw a soil testing rig in use in the Burger King parking lot at Clark/Irving Park this morning. Hopefully a sign of massive surface lot and drive thru's pending doom?

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9544...7i16384!8i8192

EDIT: Listed for sale. Sweet. https://www.us.jll.com/en/investorce...l-unitedstates

Interesting that another stand alone Burger King in the south loop was recently sold and is going to be redeveloped. Maybe more BKs will be biting the dust...

[Ned.B]

It's interesting that the article does not mention that Eleanor Gorski also once lead Chicago Landmarks staff and was pivotal in the creation of the Fulton Market Historic District. In her new position at the Land Bank she was well placed to make this happen.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by Handro

Interesting that another stand alone Burger King in the south loop was recently sold and is going to be redeveloped. Maybe more BKs will be biting the dust...

i pray the BK near me in lincoln square meets the same fate.

it's a 3/4 acre lot fronting lawrence with an ugly old '70s BK restaurant and a 40 space parking lot that rarely ever has more than 10 cars parked in it. what a sad waste of space.