919 West Fulton goes construction progress 3D

Posted on March 5, 2024 by danieldschell

Skender and Adjustable have added the 3rd dimension to 919 West Fulton,

It’s true that we first visited 919 West Fulton* just last week to check on progress. But when in Rome, you snap photos of Rome. Or something. I had to go by the site over the weekend, and saw significant work to get this future office building up to street level. That’s worth documenting. Besides, there aren’t that many tower-crane jobs happening in Chicago at the moment.

*Yep, that link from developer Fulton Street Companies refers to this project as *917* West Fulton. Everything else uses *919* for it. The permits don’t help; they’re all addressed to 217 N. Sangamon.

For now, I’m going with 919, even though siding with the developer is generally the better way to go. I just like the “nine” ending instead of “seven.” We’ll get it straightened out in good time. Or maybe this building will get a random moniker that makes moot the whole 917/919 controversy.

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First Visit: Northwestern Medicine Bronzeville Outpatient Center

Posted on February 29, 2024 by danieldschell

Rendering from Lamar Johnson Collaborative.

There’s a 237-stall parking garage with a tower crane stabbing through it, and now it’s on to the healthcare portion of Northwestern Medicine’s new facility at 4822 South Cottage Grove in the Grand Boulevard Community Area of Chicago.

The Bronzeville Outpatient Center will be a 120,000 square foot building containing an immediate care center, a cancer center with chemotherapy services, primary and specialty care services, and a pharmacy, among other features. Expected to treat over 50,000 patients each year, its anticipated opening is Fall 2025.

The rest of the construction team includes:
Lamar Johnson Collaborative — Design Architect
Power Construction — General Contractor
UJAMAA — General Contractor
Adjustable Concrete Construction — Concrete Contractor
As always, links to those team members will provide a wealth of information on the new development.

To date, Northwestern Medicine has received building permits for:
Foundations — Issued 03/30/2023
Tower Crane — Issued 09/21/2023
Full Building — Issued 01/30/2024

Photos from a short visit on Monday, Feb 26 (shout-out to the Power Pro I talked to briefly):

UChicago Medicine plants the first of two tower crane for its new cancer care and research facility

Posted on February 28, 2024 by danieldschell

The first of two tower cranes at 5644 South Drexel for UChicago Medicine.

There’s one tower crane base, the first of two, in the ground at 57th and Drexel on the UChicago Medicine campus in Hyde Park. General Contractor Turner Construction, along with concrete contractor Adjustable Concrete Construction, will use those cranes to build a new cancer care center for UChicago Medicine. (There’s a ton of info at that ground-breaking link. Read it. They’re doing important work at UChi Med.)

Designed by CannonDesign (more great project info at that link), the facility, scheduled to open to patients in 2027, will be a eight-story, 875,000-square-foot building with 80 inpatient beds.

To date, UChicago Medicine has received permits for:
South tower crane — issued 12/28/23 (addressed as 5644 S. Drexel Ave)
North tower crane — issued 12/12/23
Foundation — issued 12/12/23
Groundbreaking ceremony tent — issued 09/08/23 (I don’t get to post about tent permits very often)
Three demolition permits were issued to clear space for the new facility on 11/07/23:
5627 S Maryland
5631 S Maryland
5635 S Maryland

Hyde Park Labs (Harper Court Phase II) has topped out

Posted on February 28, 2024 by danieldschell

The tower crane that topped out Hyde Park Labs, Hyde Park, Chicago.

As reported by Urbanize Chicago earlier this month, Hyde Park Labs has topped out at 5207 South Harper in the Hyde Park Community Area (and neighborhood.) The 13-story, 302,000-square-foot facility includes a 125-space parking garage, plus nine levels of lab and office space. Its anticipated opening is in the fourth quarter of 2024.

Congrats on the topping out to:

Trammell Crow Company and Beacon Capital Partners, the developers.
Elkus Manfredi Architects, the design architect.
Power Construction, general contractor, with an assist from UJAMAA
Adjustable Concrete Construction, concrete contractor.

I hope you all went to the ground floor and got one of those fried catfish Po-boys and a frozen hurricane.

Photos from February 26 (photos of construction, not of the Po-boys):

First Visit: Office building at 919 West Fulton is underway

Posted on February 24, 2024 by danieldschell

Best place to view 919 West Fulton construction? The CTA Morgan Street Green/Pink Line platform.

The tower crane is up, and foundations are down — below street level that is — at the West Loop’s 919 West Fulton, an 11-story, 530-square-foot office building from Fulton Street Companies.

That address — 919 West Fulton Market — is probably where you’ll want your company’s mail delivered to if you lease office space here, but to the city of Chicago, the address is 217 North Sangamon Street, for permit purposes. And to date, those permits include:
“Deep” Foundations — issued 9-29-2023
Tower Crane — issued 10-12-2023.

Skender is your general contractor on this one, with an assist from Adjustable Concrete Construction as the concrete contractor. (Patting myself on the back because I never call concrete “cement”.) FitzGerald is the design architect. The new office building is going right next door to their old offices, which were located in Lake Street Lofts at Lake and Peoria.

I chose a less-than-perfectly-sunny day to check out the early stages of construction, but that’s a good thing, because it means I can go back for more pics much sooner than I otherwise would have when we get a nicer day. Win/win.

Progress Update: 633 South LaSalle

Posted on October 31, 2023 by danieldschell

The 633 South LaSalle construction crane towers over the South Loop.

Some progress photos at 633 South LaSalle, as Clark Construction and Adjustable Concrete Construction continue work on the Berkelhamer-designed 18-story, 117-unit student-living tower in the South Loop.

Hyde Park Labs (Harper Court Phase II) has gone 3-D in Hyde Park

Posted on August 23, 2023 by danieldschell

Post-demolition, pre-construction for Hyde Park Labs at 5201 South Harper, 3/1/2023.

Made my first visit to Hyde Park Labs (at that link, click on “View Brochure” for everything you’ll ever want to know about Hyde Park Labs) at 5201 South Harper since this was still a fenced-off dirt lot waiting to get started. Well, not only has it started, but the crane’s in the air and the core has risen to — let’s call it the fifth floor. They’re going up to 13.

Let’s see if I have all the players correct on this project, the 2nd phase of Harper Court:

Trammell Crow Company and Beacon Capital Partners are the developers.
Elkus Manfredi Architects is the design architect.
Power Construction is the general contractor, with an assist from UJAMAA
Adjustable Concrete Construction is the concrete contractor.

Now, how ’bout some permit dates:

Demo of the single-story building previously on this site, issued 1/17/2023
Tower crane, issued 2/22/2023
“Selective” demo for existing building & parking garage, issued 4/6/2023
Caissons, issued 5/9/2023
Full build, issued 6/15/2023

And finally, some photos of progress, taken August 21:

4600 North Marine in Uptown moves ever closer to exterior completion

Posted on August 23, 2023 by danieldschell

4600 North Marine is topped out in Uptown

Don’t get me wrong; I know there’s still a good deal of work yet to be done to the exterior of 4600 North Marine in Uptown. But the bricks are on, the windows are in, and the crane is down. As you’ll see, Gilbane is nearing the home stretch.

633 South LaSalle (at long last) puts up a tower crane and rises out of the ground [Corrected]

Posted on August 20, 2023 by danieldschell

This post has been corrected to show Q Investment Partners of Singapore as the developer.

The tower crane at 633 South LaSalle in the South Loop.

633 South LaSalle has avoided a forced vacation to Spireville and is now underway in the Printers Row area of the South Loop. The tower crane is up, the core has gone 3-D, and any and all delays — pandemic-related or otherwise — are a thing of the past. Thrilled and relieved to see this one get going.

This will be an 18-story co-living development, consisting of 117 units and 381 beds. Why co-living in the South Loop? Students. Roosevelt University, Columbia College, DePaul, East-West University, etc. Lots of kids need lots of places to stay.

Tip o’the cap to Chicago Cityscape for letting me know the tower crane was up.

Here are the players at 633 South LaSalle:

Clark Construction is the general contractor.
Adjustable Concrete Construction is the concrete contractor.
Berkelhamer is the design architect.
FitzGerald is the architect of record.
Q Investment Partners is the developer.

Was I hallucinating when it came to old permits here? There were a bunch of them, I swear. But now there are only three on the City of Chicago website:

Tower crane, issued 3/24/2023
Caissons, issued 4/25/2023
Full build, issued 6/1/2023

Here are some pics. Some much more compelling pics than the bare lot I’ve visited in recent months:

Work continues at the topped-out 4600 North Marine Drive Uptown apartment tower

Posted on May 10, 2023 by danieldschell

The 12-story, 303-unit apartment building at 4600 North Marine Drive in Uptown.

The closest tower crane to the B.U.C. HQ is still dong yeoman’s work at 4600 North Marine, the fully-grown 303-unit apartment tower in Uptown.

Congrats go out to the development team on topping out the 12-story building last month:
Developer Lincoln Property Company
Design Architect Valerio Dewalt Train Associates
General Contractor Gilbane Building Company
Concrete Contractor Adjustable Concrete Construction (drone shots!)