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I'm Daniel Schell, Chicagoan, Twitter fiend, and picture taker. I like sunsets, travel, and long walks through construction sites. If you build it, I will come.

Progress Update: 300 North Michigan

Posted on March 15, 2021 by danieldschell

300 North Michigan between the Magnificent and Cultural Miles of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue.

There aren’t many projects happening in Chicago that this blog considers “mixed-use.” Since everything includes retail these days, an office tower or residential building with ground-floor commercial space doesn’t split the vote.

300 North Michigan qualifies as mixed-use. The bKL Archtecture-designed tower will deliver 289 residential units and 280 hotel rooms across its 47 stories. A joint venture between Sterling Bay and Magellan Group, 300 North Michigan got its tower crane permit back in August 2020, and its foundation permit (with an assigned address of 88 E Wacker Pl) about three weeks prior. The full-build permit arrived in late September.

Linn-Mathes is the general contractor.

First Visit: Clarendale Six Corners erects a tower crane Updated

Posted on March 15, 2021 by danieldschell

Clarendale Six Corners gets a tower crane.

**This post was updated April 15, 2021 to reflect the correct name of this project, Clarendale Six Corners.**

Last week saw Chicago’s northernmost and westernmost tower crane erected at the Six Corners intersection of Irving Park, Milwaukee, and Cicero.

Clarendale Six Corners was issued a foundation permit back in January. That permit calls for a 10-story building with a total of 258 units. 114 of those units will be residential, 98 will be assisted living, and 46 will be memory care.

With a development assist from LCS, Ryan Companies is your developer, design architect, and general contractor on this one. That’s peak keeping-it-in-house.

Shout-out to Adjustable Concrete Construction for the info and a rendering of The Clarendale.

And now, as is usually the case on this blog, please enjoy far more Tower Crane Erection photos than you’ll ever need, with a few foundation pics thrown in for good measure.

He who labs glass, glass lasts

Posted on March 15, 2021 by danieldschell

What I’m trying to say is, Fulton Labs has its first couple rows of glass installed. Here’s an updated photo gallery from the first half of March 2021.

March 2021 Tower Crane Survey rendered obsolete, as the last of Cirrus-Cascade’s three cranes comes down

Posted on March 12, 2021 by danieldschell

You know what it means when the tower crane dips below the top of the building.

Make it 13 active tower cranes in Chicago right now, as Lendlease is removing the third and final crane from the Lakeshore East jobsite of Cirrus Condominiums and Cascade Apartments.

Checking up on the topped-out and craneless Joan and Paul Rubschlager Building at Rush

Posted on March 11, 2021 by danieldschell

Joan Paul Rubschlager Building March 2021

The Joan and Paul Rubschlager Building, b/w the Chicago Skyline, from Rush University Medical Center.

What? It’s been more than a year since I was here? Yeah, I guess it’s been awhile for a lot of Chicago construction projects. Stupid pandemic and laziness.

Over at Rush University Medical Center, Power Construction continues work on the Joan and Paul Rubschlager Building. After breaking ground in June of 2019, this 10-story, 480,000-square-foot outpatient care facility still has a long way to go before it’s ready for patients, with a projected 2022 opening date. It is a design by West Loop architecture firm Nia Architects in collaboration with HDR.

Cirrus Condos, Cascade Apartments nearing completion

Posted on March 11, 2021 by danieldschell

Cirrus Condominiums and Cascade Apartments rise in Lakeshore East.

If you’re ever unsure which tower is Cascade and which is Cirrus, remember that Cirrus is taller, and it has the better views of Lake Michigan. You give the condos better views.

Quick refresher, then we’ll roll the photos.

General Contractor – Lendlease
Design Architect – bKL Architecture
Developer – Magellan Development & Lendlease
Cirrus Condominiums – 47 stories, 363 units
Cascade Apartments – 37 stories, 503 units

Non-Update: The Toyoko Inn still ain’t in

Posted on March 10, 2021 by danieldschell

It’s no Spire Hole, but it’s still an eyesore.

That’s it. That’s the tweet.

Third member of the Wolf Point Trio is on the rise

Posted on December 30, 2020 by danieldschell

The elevator core at Wolf Point South, aka Salesforce Tower.

There’s an impressive concrete core jutting out of Wolf Point these days, as Walsh Construction begins to make Salesforce Tower a reality. It’s okay to dream about renting office space here, right next door to dreaming about renting an apartment at Wolf Point East. You know, to change up the viewing angles a bit. Best commute ever.

Fulton Labs shines in the December sun

Posted on December 29, 2020 by danieldschell

Fulton Labs grows behind (or next to) the Birdie tank in the Fulton Market District.

This isn’t about one of my favorite water tanks ever, but I certainly can’t ignore it.

No, this post is about Fulton Labs at 400 North Aberdeen, a 16-story, 400,000+ square-foot laboratory facility Power Construction is erecting in Fulton Market. Expected to be operational in early 2022 (2022? Oh, that’s right. 2022 is less than 13 months away. Gosh, 2020 flew by…) Fulton Labs is a development by Trammell Crow Company, and a design by ESG Architecture. This same team brought West End on Fulton to the West Loop as well, which opened this summer.

Tishman Speyer announces topping out of 320 North Sangamon

Posted on September 1, 2020 by danieldschell

When I posted photos of 320 North Sangamon last week, I counted the floors that were done and estimated, with my math skills, that it had topped out.

Nailed it!

Tishman Speyer has released a video (see link below) to commemorate the topping out. Congrats all around.

https://tishmanspeyer.ent.box.com/s/8z9x2jwuym8n5l5so0az26fg4y748zg9

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Progress Update: 300 North Michigan

First Visit: Clarendale Six Corners erects a tower crane Updated

He who labs glass, glass lasts

March 2021 Tower Crane Survey rendered obsolete, as the last of Cirrus-Cascade’s three cranes comes down

Checking up on the topped-out and craneless Joan and Paul Rubschlager Building at Rush

Cirrus Condos, Cascade Apartments nearing completion

Non-Update: The Toyoko Inn still ain’t in

Third member of the Wolf Point Trio is on the rise

Fulton Labs shines in the December sun

Tishman Speyer announces topping out of 320 North Sangamon