Finally got a look at the roof of Wintrust Arena this week. Glad I’m not the one who has to shovel the snow off so work can continue.
Quick Look: Wintrust Arena has a roof
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At Alta Roosevelt, glass is in session
Glass. Glorious Glass. Appearing now at Alta Roosevelt.
Alta Roosevelt (follow along on Twitter), the 33-story apartment tower from Wood Partners, has added some new shiny things for us to look at: Glass.
A few of the future 496 apartments have windows already installed. Bummer if residents have Macs, I guess. Anyway, the Pappageorge Haymes-designed tower continues to rise at 801 South Financial Place in the South Loop. It’s up to the 11th floor on the main tower; the fourth floor of the parking deck.
Tower Crane Update: 1411 South Michigan
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McHughtel construction gets underway in the South Loop
Caisson equipment as far as the eye can see.
McHugh Construction crews are rolling rebar cages and digging holes and trenches at the site of McHugh’s new hotel project at 111-123 East Cermak Road in the Prairie District, and that means construction is underway.
The 23-story, 466-room hotel is a design by Antunovich Associates. The City of Chicago filed the building permit back on December 19, and the lot has been filling up with materials ever since. Now, holes are being dug, the aforementioned rebar is being twisted, and caisson equipment is stacked and ready to be sunk into the earth. McHugh, of course, is the general contractor.
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- The site, from Cermak and Michigan.
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- Have you ever seen a prettier collection of augers?
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- Rebar crew.
Construction Progress: 1136 South Wabash aims to go vertical
Time is running out to see Flyboy, as 1136 South Wabash gets off the ground in the South Loop.
Caissons are done, the tower crane is in place, and 1136 South Wabash is looking more like a 3-dimensional construction site these days. CA Ventures’ 26-story residential tower will bring 320 apartments to the South Loop, with retail on the first floor, and 143 parking spaces. SCB did the design; Lendlease is on the build.
One Grant Park caisson work rolls along
A gorgeous rendering of One Grant Park from Rafael Viñoly Architects.
When it rains, it pours. Cement into caissons, that is.
Add One Grant Park to the list of skyscrapers getting busy in Chicago. Permitted for foundation work back in October, the empty lot bounded by Michigan Avenue, Roosevelt Road, and Indiana Avenue finally saw some action in December, when crews started site prep. Now, the familiar blue and gold of Case Foundation is on the scene, drilling holes into the South Loop soil to support the 76-story, 792-unit Rafael Viñoly Architects design.
That foundation permit includes twelve (!) levels of parking, so we could see a lot of time and concrete trucks pass between now and the full building permit. But it’s all good; we can kill time running back and forth between One Grant Park and another McHugh Construction supertall in progress, Vista Tower.
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- The view from the Roosevelt CTA platform.
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- That looks like a 34.
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- Yep, it’s a 34.
Essex Inn looks under all the mattresses, comes up with money to begin demolition
It’s demo time! Goodbye parking garage and swimming pool, hello 475 apartments.
As Crain’s Chicago Business reported on Tuesday, Essex Inn at 800 South Michigan Avenue has secured the funding necessary to upgrade the hotel, and add a new a 56-story apartment tower as its new next-door neighbor.
The Demolition Permit.
And no sooner had the ink on the check dried, crews were out on Michigan Avenue, setting up barriers and scaffolding for the temporary sidewalk that will keep pedestrians safe during demolition of the 5-story garage next to the hotel, while also making sure bloggers and skyscraper nerds can’t get too close to the goings-on.
None other than Heneghan Wrecking (we need t-shirts with Heneghan Again on them) will be making space for the new tower, with a demolition permit having been filed way back on October 27.
The Chicago Plan Commission approved the development back in May of 2016, and I quote:
The Applicant intends to create two subareas within the overall 28,744 square foot site. Subarea A, located at 800 South Michigan Avenue consists of an existing 160’ hotel building and will be rehabbed to include a maximum of 290 hotel keys. Subarea B, located at approximately 812 South Michigan Avenue, will be redeveloped with an approximately 620’ residential building including a maximum of 476 dwelling units, 100 hotel keys as well as 100 parking spaces and commercial space.
Essex on The Park, the name of the Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture-designed tower according to Crain’s, should be complete in 2018, and coincide with completion of the hotel renovation.
This rendering, from the Crain’s story, is from Hartshorne Plunkard Architects. Too pretty not to include.
1411 South Michigan gets in on the tower crane fun
I see you over there.
What is it, Spring already?
Tower crane seedlings are sprouting all over Chicago, proving there’s no season like Construction Season. You may have read a thing or two about the pair of cranes being erected at Vista Tower, but those aren’t the only ones in town. 1411 South Michigan planted its own tower crane stub Thursday in the South Loop, marking the next big step in the development process for Russland Capital Group’s 15-story, 199-apartment tower. Lendlease is on the build, responsible for getting the design from Boarman Kroos Vogel Group completed in time for opening late this year.
Construction Progress: The Marriott Marquis Chicago
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Parking garage turned empty lot in South Loop is getting a hotel
I don’t know what this steel-and-wood sculpture, in the lot at 1101 South Wabash, is called. But I like it.
At 1101 South Wabash Avenue, directly behind the Best Western Grant Park Hotel in the South Loop, the City of Chicago has filed a permit to begin construction of a 30-story hotel. According to the permit, this will be a design by Lothan Van Hook DeStefano Architecture. And according to the Chicago Plan Commission agenda for November of this year, the hotel will have 281 rooms and 57 parking spaces.
The two-story parking garage on the site got its demolition permit in January of this year, and by the middle of February, it had been reduced to an empty lot.
Currently, there are a couple of cool abstract pieces of iron artwork on site, but I can’t say for sure those are permanent. Lendlease is the general contractor on the hotel project; we’ll let them decide what stays and what goes.
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- The Demolition Permit.
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- The Foundation Permit.
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- Lendlease is ready to take over the site.
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- The seamy underbelly of the parking garage, just after demolition had begun back in January.
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- And wrapping up demo in February.
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