The gang’s all here, as Leopardo Companies, Adjustable Forms, and Central Contractors Service set up the tower crane at 210 North Carpenter.
The West Loop is in a full-fledged tower-crane frenzy these days, and it won’t let up any time soon. We’ve barely had time to enjoy Tower Crane #33 in Chicago (raised over the weekend at 900 West) and already #34 is being erected, at Sterling Bay’s 210 North Carpenter.
This will be Chicago’s 57th tower crane of 2017, and the seventh crane operating currently in the West Loop.
Crews from Leopardo Companies, Adjustable Forms, and Central Contractors Service are all on site today, getting the Manitowoc MD485 set up, less than a week after the permit was issued, and only five days after the stub was planted in the ground.
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- The cab was trucked in early this morning.
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- The stub was planted Thursday.
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- Crane parts await assembly on Randolph Street.
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- Another crane will sit right next to the CTA Green and Pink Line L tracks.
Building Up Chicago 
Everyone seems to celebrate all the new growth, but not a single media outlet has covered the fact that it’s absolutely hellish to LIVE in the West Loop right now.
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