Two Potain MR 608 free-standing tower cranes at work at the UChicago Cancer Care Center in Hyde Park
Both tower cranes are up and running and construction progress has gone 3-D at 5644 South Drexel Avenue in Hyde Park. That’s where the University of Chicago Medicine is building its new Cancer Care Center. The eight-story, 875,000-square-foot facility, designed by CannonDesign, broke ground in September of last year and is scheduled to open in 2027. It’s up to Turner Construction and Adjustable Concrete Construction, the General Contractor and Concrete Contractor, respectively, to make that happen.
To date, UChicago Medicine has received permits for: South tower crane — issued 12/28/23 (addressed as 5644 S. Drexel Ave) North tower crane — issued 12/12/23 Foundation — issued 12/12/23 Groundbreaking ceremony tent — issued 09/08/23 We’re waiting on the full-build permit. Judging by the looks of the core, that could be arriving any day now.
Photos taken May 1, 2024:
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To date, GC Turner Construction has received permits for: Foundations — Issued 01/12/2023 Core & Shell — Issued 01/19/2023 Tower crane foundation — Issued 04/12/2023 Tower crane — Issued 05/03/2023 Full building — Issued 06/20/2023 Hoist — Issued 08/20/2023
Photos taken Monday, February 26:
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There’s a 237-stall parking garage with a tower crane stabbing through it, and now it’s on to the healthcare portion of Northwestern Medicine’s new facility at 4822 South Cottage Grove in the Grand Boulevard Community Area of Chicago.
The Bronzeville Outpatient Center will be a 120,000 square foot building containing an immediate care center, a cancer center with chemotherapy services, primary and specialty care services, and a pharmacy, among other features. Expected to treat over 50,000 patients each year, its anticipated opening is Fall 2025.
To date, Northwestern Medicine has received building permits for: Foundations — Issued 03/30/2023 Tower Crane — Issued 09/21/2023 Full Building — Issued 01/30/2024
Photos from a short visit on Monday, Feb 26 (shout-out to the Power Pro I talked to briefly):
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The first of two tower cranes at 5644 South Drexel for UChicago Medicine.
There’s one tower crane base, the first of two, in the ground at 57th and Drexel on the UChicago Medicine campus in Hyde Park. General Contractor Turner Construction, along with concrete contractor Adjustable Concrete Construction, will use those cranes to build a new cancer care center for UChicago Medicine. (There’s a ton of info at that ground-breaking link. Read it. They’re doing important work at UChi Med.)
Designed by CannonDesign (more great project info at that link), the facility, scheduled to open to patients in 2027, will be a eight-story, 875,000-square-foot building with 80 inpatient beds.
To date, UChicago Medicine has received permits for: South tower crane — issued 12/28/23 (addressed as 5644 S. Drexel Ave) North tower crane — issued 12/12/23 Foundation — issued 12/12/23 Groundbreaking ceremony tent — issued 09/08/23 (I don’t get to post about tent permits very often) Three demolition permits were issued to clear space for the new facility on 11/07/23: 5627 S Maryland 5631 S Maryland 5635 S Maryland
Render from CannonDesign
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The tower crane goes up at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Lake View.
I went to the South Loop Friday to see a new tower crane, and found an even newer one in Lake View on the way home.
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is erecting an eight-story vertical expansion (if this was a house, it would be called an addition) addressed as 900 West Nelson Street. This construction is best viewed from an outbound Brown Line train, which is where I was Friday when I snapped a couple iPhone shots of the crane going up.
Turner Construction is the general contractor. It looks from the permits issued that SmithGroup is the design architect.
Almost as many permits and floors on this one. The construction itself was permitted in three phases, while the tower crane has two permits of its own:
A permit was issued May 23rd for a five-story “inpatient hospital building” at 516 South Loomis. A hoist permit followed on August 9.
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Permits received for this project include: Demolition for 3501 N Halsted – 8/18/2021 Demolition for 3513 N Halsted – 8/18/2021 Caissons – 2/15/2022 Tower crane – 3/28/2022 Core & shell – 5/9/2022 Interior build-out – 6/17/2022
And now, the pictures:
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At 4445 West Irving Park, work on the parking-deck ramp is pun-derway.
The team of Power Construction and UJAMAA Construction have been hard at work getting the new Northwestern Medicine healthcare facility above street level at 4445 West Irving Park. This one’s only going up to four stories, as CannonDesign creation will top out relatively soon-ish, with just three more levels to go.
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A permit was issued May 23rd for a five-story “inpatient hospital building” at 516 South Loomis. Earlier anticipation of this project may show an address of 1400 West Harrison. Either way, this is the place. Rush is developing the hospital along with Select Medical.
This is what Rush had to say in a news release for the groundbreaking:
Select Medical and Rush University System for Health held a ceremonial ground-breaking to celebrate the new RUSH Specialty Hospital being built on Chicago’s West Side.
The 100-bed facility will be a combined critical illness recovery and inpatient rehabilitation hospital on the RUSH University Medical Center campus. The hospital is slated to open in 2024 and will feature 44 critical illness recovery and 56 inpatient rehabilitation beds.
“It is the beginning of what will be excellent care for our community,” said RUSH CEO Dr. K. Ranga Rama Krishnan.
To celebrate the construction of the future hospital, RUSH and Select Medical executives were joined by local leaders, including 28th Ward Alderman Jason C. Ervin and Illinois state Rep. Lakesia Collins.
“It’s a phenomenal partnership that speaks to innovation and brings patients the care they need when, where and how they need it,” said RUSH University Medical Center President and CEO Dr. Omar Lateef.
Together as partners, Select Medical and RUSH are delivering a world-class acute to post-acute continuum of care for Chicagoans.
“The promise of excellence is often achieved through our joint ventures,” said Tom Mullin, executive vice president of hospital operations for Select Medical.
In addition to the new RUSH Specialty Hospital, Select Medical contributed 63 of its outpatient centers to the joint venture. Today, those locations are rebranded RUSH Physical Therapy, and the footprint has expanded to 71 centers, including 19 dedicated to pediatrics under the RUSH Kids Physical Therapy brand.
Power Construction is the general contractor, with assistance on concrete from Adjustable Concrete Construction. Stalworth Underground rigs are on site drilling caissons. Like I said, this is a very busy two-block area, with the Joan and Paul Rubschlager Building nearing completion, along with its adjoining parking garage. The photos below include all three projects.
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Ride the #80 bus past 4445 West Irving Park Road and you won’t see many new signs of construction on Northwestern Medicine’s 4-story facility. But get off the bus and take a peek into the abyss and you’ll see there’s a lot going on below street level. The block-long site still looks like a deep excavation, but not nearly as deep as the first visit back in April.
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