Clybourn 1200 is being pieced together by a massive ground crane, like an out-of-hand game of Tetris.
Clybourn 1200 is a new mixed-use, mixed-income apartment project from Brinshore Development. Depending on your perspective, it’s in the Gold Coast neighborhood, the Goose Island area, the Cabrini-Green neighborhood, or the Near North.
The V-shaped building, designed by Pappageorge Haymes Partners to fit in the triangular lot at 1200 North Clybourn Avenue, will have 77 apartments for people, a whole bunch of roof-top hives for bees, and 17,000 square feet of space for retailers, including a day-care center for children.
McShane Construction is on the build, a notable site for its massive red crane parked in the middle of the lot.
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- The “front” of Clybourn 1200, facing Division Street.
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- This facade faces North Clybourn.
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- McShane Construction personnel atop Clybourn 1200.
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- The big red crane doing what big red cranes do.
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- It picked it up, now it’s setting it down.
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- Come on, admit it. That’s an amazing piece of machinery.
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- Getting kinda personal, shooting it from the back like this, but you can see the counterweight required for heavy lifting cross a large site like this one.