Talk about multi-tasking.
This is Optima Chicago Center II. Designed by David Hovey of Optima. Optima is also the developer, and the general contractor. Keeping it in-house to the extreme.
Located at 220 East Illinois Street in Streeterville, Optima Chicago Center II will be a 54-story, 381-unit apartment tower. It sits next to Optima Chicago Center, next door at 200 East Illinois Street. The first Optima tower stands 42 stories tall, and is also a rental building, with 325 apartments. It opened to residents in 2013.
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- Site prep, all the way back in December of 2014.
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- May 1, 2015, and not much had been accomplished.
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- A shot from April, with really good light.
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- An April crane shot.
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- Optima Chicago Center II, from Cityfront Plaza Drive.
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- This will be the “front” and main entrance of the building.
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- “Is it really gonna be green and red?” people have asked. Well, there’s your red glass.
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- And there’s your green glass.
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- The “back” of the building, along Grand Avenue.
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- Gratuitous tower crane shot.
