Crews set rebar for the tower crane foundation at 465 North Park.
465 North Park, the Pappageorge Haymes Partners-designed, Jupiter Realty Company-developed 48-story, 444-unit apartment tower in Streeterville, received a tower crane permit from the City of Chicago on Tuesday of last week. On Tuesday of this week, Power Construction crews could be seen setting the foundation that will hold the crane in place.
The tower crane starts the long journey back to earth at Aurélien.
Aurélien, the 368-unit luxury apartment tower Ryan Companies designed, developed, and is constructing at 833 North Clark Street in the Near North neighborhood, reached another milestone this week, albeit a sad one for construction nerds. On Tuesday, the tower crane atop the topped-out 31-story structure began its slow descent back to earth. That means most of the progress photos you’ll see below, taken Sunday when the tower crane was at full staff, are already obsolete. Such is life.
Gallery I: Tuesday’s tower crane descent
Gallery II: Sunday’s progress photos
The Hudson, at 750 North Hudson Avenue, topped out last week.
Onni Group, the developer and general contractor building The Hudson in River North, hit a milestone last week with the topping out of the 25-story apartment tower. The fine folks at Pappageorge Haymes Partners, the Chicago firm that designed the Hudson, tell me topping out was achieved on Thursday of last week.
When it’s done, The Hudson will have 240 one-, two-, and three-bedroom rental units and 240 parking spots (that’s a one-to-one ratio, for the math-impaired), with 10,000 square feet of retail space at ground level.
A crane builds a crane at 1001 West Chicago.
If it seems Power Construction is everywhere around Chicago these days, it’s because Power Construction is everywhere around Chicago these days. Tuesday, while most of the crew continued work on the foundations for 1001 West Chicago, the rest of the gang took part in yet another tower crane erection. The design from FitzGerald Associates brings 360 apartments in two mid-rise towers, 10,000 square feet of retail (including a grocery store) and 300 parking spaces for all those residents and shoppers.
Back in July, the Chicago Plan Commission approved plans to finally get the renovation of the former Atlantic Bank Building at 168 North Michigan Avenue restarted. The design to turn the building into a 210-room hotel, by Hirsch Associates Architects, calls for five additional floors to be added to the existing structure. But first, the 13th floor penthouse and everything occupying the roof has to be removed, and that work is taking place now on 168 North Michigan’s rooftop.
W.E. O’Neil is the general contractor (have you checked out the job they did at LondonHouse?!) on the renovations, having replaced the original contractor back in May.
The renovation permit, allowing for removal of the 13th floor penthouse.
This is what the rooftop looked like in July.
As of this week, there isn’t much left up there.
A look from street level.
As seen from the Building Up Chicago offices, the new tower crane at 1001 West Chicago.
Crews are assembling Chicago’s latest tower crane at 1001 West Chicago today. The crane was permitted back on August 23. Look for more photos in this space as they become available. (In other words…”when I can get up there to take some.”)
The Tower Crane Permit.
640 North Wells continues to grow in River North.
Progress continues on the 23-story apartment tower JDL Development is building in River North, designed by Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture. When completed, 640 North Wells will have 251 units and 12,000 square feet of retail space. Expect about 140 parking spots too, if the building permit is to be believed. Lendlease is the general contractor. They’re working on a completion goal of Spring 2017.
Dirt and a gaping open space where Senn, Jones, Rawson, and Murdock once stood.
Their names were Murdock, Rawson, Senn, and Jones. No, they weren’t the A-Team. They were four buildings on the campus of Rush Medical Center. Rendered obsolete by the construction of a new hospital in 2012, Rush chose to have them demolished rather than modernize or re-purpose them.
All over 100 years old, except for the Rawson building, which was built in 1924, the four are now history, with a large dirt lot where they once stood. Rush’s plan for the site will be green space, or what used to be referred to as a “yard” or “field” or, in much simpler times, just plain old “grass.”
You can read more about the history of the Senn, Rawson, Murdock, and Jones Buildings at the Chicago Architecture Blog and the Rush InPerson blog.
Power Construction crew gets busy after a weekend off at 3Eleven.
Some of us are better at relaxing than others. Some take a couple days off for the weekend reluctantly, and pace and fidget until Monday morning arrives, and they can get back to the work week.
Like these guys, climbing the walls to get back at it on the 3Eleven construction site.
The Hampton Inn & Homewood Suites at 118 North Jefferson has signs stating such.
The new West Loop hotel from Jupiter Realty continues to stride towards completion. The combination Homewood Suites & Hampton Inn is now clearly marked at the top of the south-facing facade. Designed by VOA Associates, the Homewood/Hampton will have 336 rooms and about 8,000 square feet of retail space, plus 117 indoor parking spots. The building permit also mentions a restaurant on the 24th floor.
Power Construction has been on the job since ground was broken in March 2015. And it looks like they’re close to making Jupiter’s goal of opening the Homewood-Hampton this month. There’s work to do in the lobby, and some mints to put on pillows, but my guess is, folks will be catching shut-eye here within the next two weeks.
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