Hey Neighbors! @ShapackPartners & @Lauren_Asta would 💚 2CU tonight @ 5:15PM 🎨 #TheWestLoopIsTheBestLoop https://t.co/hcOBjlV4yX
— The West Loop (@TheBestLoop) July 28, 2016
It’s not often you celebrate a building’s demise by painting it. (Unless you’re a tagger.) But that’s exactly what happened in the West Loop on July 28. Folks came out to add some color to the black & white mural by artist Lauren Asta at 177 North Morgan Street.
The building holding Lauren’s ill-fated mural was permitted for demolition on July 21, and though it’s still standing, albeit surrounded by the fences of doom, there is already a building permit for a one-story (One story? In the Fulton Market District?) retail building from developer Shapack Partners. Designed by The Bureau of Architecture and Design, it will be built by LG Development Group.
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- Lauren Asta’s mural, pre-paint job.
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- The half-colored-in mural, post-construction fencing.
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- Now the mural is painted, but hemmed in by construction fencing.
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- The view from the Morgan Street Green Line platform.
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- The demolition permit was filed as 955 West Lake Street.
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- The Building Permit.