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Category Archives: West Loop
Fulton Labs shines in the December sun
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.
No tower crane (yet)? No problem for Union Station Tower
There’s a stub; it counts.
Design Architect: Goettsch Partners
Developer: Riverside Investment & Development Company
800 Fulton putting on a Fulton Market show
320 North Sangamon reaches Fulheight, adds glass in Fulton Market
It’s not a typo if it’s a pun
Tower crane stub in the house! No, seriously. They built a house for it.
Flag, Crane, Plane, and Train at 1125 West Van Buren.
Chicago’s most unique new residence is at 1125 West Van Buren, where Tandem has built a new house for its tower crane. Closed in on three sides, with the south façade left open for views of the Eisenhower Expressway(?), the humble abode will protect the crane stub from animal attacks and ogling Target shoppers. More importantly, crews will be on site this week to erect the full tower crane, making up for the one Chicago just lost at 717 South Clark.
318 North Carpenter gets its glass in gear
Raise a glass to 3158 North Carpenter.
Seven-story office buildings tend to get built pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss them. Ferris Bueller taught us that. As soon as you walk away from 318 North Carpenter, GC The Big Green W will have made significant progress again by the time you walk around the next corner.
Walsh has now hit the next milestone; the first row of glass has been installed on the 2nd floor of the north and east façades. Construction has also reached the underside of the 7th floor, so this one’s also getting close to topping out. Like I said, stop and look around.
Keep in mind, Murphy Development Group is planning to open 318 North Carpenter this summer, so time matters.
Stuff That’s Done: 210 North Carpenter
210 North Carpenter is 12-story, 200,000-square-foot office building in the West Loop. Developed by Sterling Bay, it is a design by Solomon Cordwell Buenz. 210’s most important tenant is Leopardo Companies; they were the general contractor, and moved their Chicago offices here upon the building’s completion in March of 2019.
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- From the Ashland L platform, 210 North Carpenter rises against the Chicago skyline.
167 Green Street drops its 2nd tower crane
The Banner waves as the West Tower Crane at 167 Green Street comes down.
With the removal of the second tower crane from 167 Green Street, Chicago now has no two-crane construction sites. There are a pair of three-crane jobs of course, at One Chicago Square and Cirrus/Cascade, but no pairs.
McDonald’s, Vista Tower, One Bennett Park, NEMA Chicago, Woodlawn Commons, and The Lincoln Common all recently utilized the double-tower-crane method to get stuff done. Now, 167 Green Street joins that list of completed missions.
Sunday, I took a quick walk around the West Loop site for one last look at the red Manitowoc MR608, affectionately known as West Crane, as crews worked on bringing it back to earth.
Stuff That’s Done (And Already Changing): The Mason
The Mason is a 13-story, 263-unit apartment building in the West Loop that began its life known as 180 North Ada. The L-shaped structure was designed by Brininstool + Lynch for Marquette Companies, with Power Construction on the build. The Mason opened to residents in Spring 2019.
Last week, the Chicago Plan Commission unanimously approved a zoning change for The Mason:
The Applicant is proposing to rezone the property from the current Planned Development #1384 to Planned Development #1384, as amended, to allow for a restaurant and tavern use to be established on the ground floor.
Helping move Restaurant Row further west in the West Loop is a good thing for hungry Chicagoans.
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- 180 North Ada
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- Power Construction has everything they need to send 180 North Ada vertical.
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- 180 North Ada, seen here from a Green Line train, has begun digging in to the West Loop.
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