Okay, this one isn’t from a sunny day. I just really like the way 1035 West Van Buren looks at night. I won’t try to fool you again.
Another segment in the A Sunny Day At series. This time, it’s 1035 West Van Buren. With its new rows of glass, yellow forms, and red wraps, it begs to be photographed when the sun is out.
1035 West Van Buren works its way into Chicago’s western skyline.
Look look south down Aberdeen Street past Lake Street reveals four new developments.
How busy are things in the West Loop? Look through the snowflakes in the above photo, taken January 26, and you’ll see four new projects lined up along Aberdeen Street.
They are, beginning in the foreground and working south:
An 11-story mixed-use building from MCZ Development, featuring 90 residential units, with 40,000 square feet of office space and 15,000 square feet of retail space.
Barley noticeable are the tops of caisson equipment. Sterling Bay is building a new HQ for the McDonald’s Corporation where Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios once stood. The 9-story, nearly 500,000-square-foot facility will have McDonald’s as its only tenant.
Look very closely beneath the elevated CTA tracks, and you’ll see the skeleton of CA Washington. Developed by Belgravia Realty Group, CA Washington brings six stories and 60 condos to the neighborhood.
Finally, way off in the distance you see the yellow forms and tower crane atop 1035 West Van Buren, a 30-story, 300-unit rental tower from Related Midwest.
Both excavators have been busy Tuesday at the Crowne Plaza parking lot/One South Halsted construction site.
If you didn’t think they were serious about moving your car out of the Crowne Plaza parking lot, it’s too late now.
Asphalt continues getting torn up at the future One South Halsted, even in Tuesday’s rain and fog. One interesting change, aside from the digging: the sidewalk protection on Halsted Street has been removed. It remains on the Madison Street (north) side.
Twitter user @henjealy spotted the temporary sidewalks on Monday.
Disregard any talk you may have heard about One South Halsted taking its sweet time getting started. A week after the foundation permit was filed by the City of Chicago, the apartment tower from Fifield Companies and F&F Realty has emptied and cordoned off the parking lot, set up temporary sidewalks on Halsted and Madison Streets, and knocked down trees on the site. There are excavators on site, plus dump trucks, equipment trailers, even a cement mixer. And, as of 9:20 this morning, one of those excavators is tearing up the asphalt.
The former Crowne Plaza parking lot has been a flurry of activity all week. Yep, One South Halsted is ready to roll into the West Loop.
Soul City Church in the West Loop is building a three-story addition.
Soul City Church, at 1150 West Adams Street in the West Loop, filed a building permit with the City of Chicago back in October to complete a three-story addition next to the existing church. Now, Focus has erected the steel work for the 45,000-square-foot addition. When finished this summer, it will include a new auditorium, office space for church staff, and covered parking.
On Thursday the 26th of last month (it’s February already?) Power Construction hoisted the final beam atop 165 North Desplaines in the West Loop, topping off the 14-story, 199-unit apartment building. Representatives from GREC Architects, the design firm on the project, were on hand, and sent over a couple photos of the festivities. You can also watch the beam rise in gif-form below from the GREC Twitter account (@GREC_architects)
You can also see four floors’ worth of windows have been installed above the podium. GREC Architects states that 165 North Desplaines is on schedule to open in Fall 2017.
A high lift waits on the site of the Nobu Hotel in the West Loop, just in case anyone needs to reach over nothing.
If SoNo is short for South of North
If MiLa is short for Michigan and Lake
The maybe Nobu is short for No Building.
Despite a very public groundbreaking all the way back in June, despite the brief appearance of caisson equipment (what was the deal there, anyway?) and approval being granted by the Chicago Plan Commission back in September to rise up to 11 stories, and despite a foundation permit being filed by the City of Chicago on December 1, there’s still less than nothing happening at the West Loop site where Nobu will (might?) one day stand.
Foundation work at Illume Chicago, as seen from the desk of B.U.C. HQ.
Whether the neighbors like it or not, Illume Chicago has powered through caisson work, and is now digging out the foundation. The 79 condominiums from LG Development and Pappageorge Haymes Partners broke ground in early December, and now the site has been dug a few feet below street level at 111 South Peoria in the West Loop.
There’s a large pile of pilings sitting in the dirt these days. I wonder if it will be noisy at all when those are pounded into the ground.
Rendering of One South Halsted from FitzGerald Associates.
Friday, the City of Chicago filed a foundation permit for One South Halsted, the 44-story apartment tower designed by the West Loop’s very own FitzGerald Associates Architects. That must mean the latest round of soil sampling just a week and a half ago was successful. Or, at least it wasn’t unsuccessful.
Anyway, expect several floors of parking structure to be part of the foundation deal, as the FitzGerald plan calls for 375 parking spaces, so as to replace the Crowne Plaza parking lot One South Halsted will replace. Look for nearly 500 apartments atop retail space when all is said and done. Lendlease has been hired on as the general contractor.
The Foundation Permit.
Rendering of One South Halsted from FitzGerald Associates.
Soil sampling on January 17 of this year.
Bye bye, parking lot. Hello, ANOTHER TOWER RIGHT OUTSIDE THE B.U.C. WINDOW!!
Way out at the west end of the Fulton Market District (I know, it’s practically the suburbs, right?) Sterling Bay’s Fulton West, a 290,000-square-foot office building designed by Gensler, is moving steadily toward its scheduled April 2017 opening. The nine-story building, a combination of new construction and renovation to an existing structure, will also include more than 600 parking spaces and 20,000 square feet of green space.
And though the photos that follow may look gloomy, that was only the weather. Thursday was a bright, cheery day for Fulton West, as Crain’s Chicago reported that Dyson, the company famous for the swiveling vacuum you’ve seen on television, has signed on to lease almost 41,000 square feet of Fulton West space. Dyson currently resides at 600 West Chicago Avenue, and, as mentioned by Ryan Ori at Crain’s, would make the move by the end of the year.
So if there appears to be a little extra sparkle in the cladding around Fulton West, now you understand why. See for yourself, in the photos below showing how far Leopardo Construction has progressed on the project.
