The Ronsley, 676 North Kingsbury Street in River North. Render from The Ronsley website.
There’s quite an ambitious renovation taking place in River North, and after a long period of interior work, the outside is catching up with the inside.
The Ronsley, at 676 North Kingsbury Street, is well on its way to being transformed into a stellar condominium building. The Ronsley renovation was designed by Antunovich Associates for LG Development, and includes adding four additional stories atop the original 5-story timber loft office building, as well as putting additions on the west and south sides of the structure. All that work, which LG Construction is doing themselves, will result in 41 luxury condos ranging from two to four bedrooms, plus parking for 50 vehicles, including hydraulic lifts for stacking cars on cars.
The Ronsley in August of 2015. Sadly, the water tank is gone.
The water tank that is no more.
The back of the original loft timber office building, which faces south. It was…gritty.
The rear of the building under transformation, April 2016.
On to May of 2016, and the interior gutting:
A month later, more interior work, the west addition takes shape, and there’s more work going on around the back:
October 2016, and here come the windows! The west addition rises up the side of the original building, and the south addition gets off the ground:
Finally, January of 2017. Those new windows look great against the brick. There’s ironwork on top, to the west, and in the rear:
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