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June must be 50s month in Chicago; Essex on the Park reaches another milestone
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46…47…you do the math. But that’s *at least* 50 where I was schooled.
Must be something in the water. All the spring rain, perhaps. Whatever it is, 50 seems to be a popular number in the Chicago skyline these days, as our population of new skyscrapers continues to grow up.
A close look at the numerals stenciled into the front of Essex on the Park show that it too, along with recent 50-achievers Vista Tower and NEMA Chicago, has reached the 50th level. For a 56-story apartment tower, that’s pretty darn close to topping out.
Congratulations to the team of Power Construction, Oxford Capital Group, and Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture, on achieving the milestone. Just a handful of floors to go.
Three Sixty West is making big progress in River North
Progress continues upward at Three Sixty West, the new condo development from Belgravia.
The only problem I can find with this building is that it’s right up against another structure to the east, so you can’t walk a 360 around it.
Growth galore in River North, where Three Sixty West, the 11-story condo tower from Belgravia Realty Group, has climbed to the seventh floor.
In the GREC Architects-designed building where there will soon be 38 brand-spankin-new condominiums, Maris Construction is more than halfway up in progress at 360 West Erie Street. What that could mean is we might see glass installation beginning soon.
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- Three Sixty West rendering from GREC Architects.
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- Three Sixty West rendering from GREC Architects.
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- Three Sixty West rendering from GREC Architects.
Fulton Market demolitions clear the way for 167 Green Street
170 North Halsted is gone; 172 will join it soon.
Heneghan Wrecking is doing what they do out in the West Loop, making space for another venture from the team that brought us The Parker Fulton Market right across the street.
The facade of 172 N. Halsted was still mostly intact as of Saturday.
Shapack Partners and Focus Development, along with Walton Street Capital (that’s their name on the demo permit, not to mention the old “176 N. Halsted” signage) are building 167 Green Street, a 17-story office building designed by Gensler. To make room for the tower, buildings at 171 North Green Street and 170-172 North Halsted are being demolished. (167 Green is already gone; half of 170 is rubble as well, with only the north half of the building, 172 North Halsted, still standing as of Saturday.)
167 Green Street will deliver nearly 600,00 rentable square feet when it opens to office tenants in 2020. It will also include more than 30,000 square feet of retail space and parking for 130 or so cars. As an added feature, a pedestrian walkway accessing the retail spaces will connect Green Street to Halsted Street along the building’s street level.
As they did at The Parker, Focus Development will pull double duty on this one, acting as general contractor in addition to their co-developer role.
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- 167 Green Street rendering from Focus Development.
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- 167 Green Street rendering from Focus Development.
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- 167 Green Street rendering from Focus Development.
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- 170 & 172 N halsted.
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- MOTOR
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- Old signage for what was going to be 176 North Halsted.
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- How will we find our way around Fulton Market now?
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- Ghost sign, north elevation.
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- Demolition permit for 171 N Green.
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- Demolition permit for 170 N Halsted, the 2nd one to be issued.
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- Looking in the front window.
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- Looking through the rubble of what was 171 North Green.
Chicago’s newest tower crane (for a few days) has risen at Milieu
If, as is rumored to be the case, the tower crane at 145 South Wells begins assembly today, then Milieu won’t have Chicago’s newest tower crane for very long.
But it’s The New Kid for now, after rising at 205 South Peoria in the West Loop last week. Power Construction will utilize it to build the FitzGerald-designed Milieu, a 19-story, 275-unit apartment development, for White Oak Realty Partners and Crayton Advisors.
Shout-out to Twitter user Alex Katz (@AT_Katz) for letting us know on Friday that the crane was up and running.
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- Pool’s almost ready.
You can kiss the tower crane at 727 West Madison goodbye
A patriotic ending to Lendlease’s tower crane at 727 West Madison in the West Loop.
Harrison Hall glasses up the joint at UIC
Pepper Construction works on both the north-facing and south-facing facades of Harrison Hall at UIC.
Chalk up another milestone for Pepper Construction at UIC, where they’ve started putting windows on Harrison Hall. (This is neither the time nor place to argue that a university’s academic hall should be using Macs instead of installing Windows)
I don’t know why I didn’t make a “glass is in session” pun in the headline for this, but I more than made up for it with the Windows thing, dontcha think?
Anyway, topping out the concrete in late April and removing the tower crane last month are two other recent achievements Pepper can be proud of at Harrison Hall. Of course, the one that counts the most will be having the 151,000-square-foot, SCB-designed facility open for UIC students in the fall.
