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Chicago Plan Commission approves two residential towers at 1200 West Fulton

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1200 West Fulton rendering from Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture

Thursday, the Chicago Plan Commission gave their approval for the two-tower development 1200 West Fulton in the West Loop’s Fulton Market District.

A joint effort between JDL Development and Fulton Street Companies, 1200 West Fulton is likely to be built in two phases, although the developers’ goal is to build the entire project at once. If phased, Phase One would see the shorter of the two towers built. The 37-story, 465-foot-tall North Tower will stand at the northeast corner of the site and contain 521 units, at the intersection of Racine and Carroll Avenues. The West Tower, Phase Two, will rise mid-block on Fulton. It is to be 43 stories and 545 feet tall, with 558 units.

A total of 1,079 residential units are included in the two towers, with 20% of those (216 units) set aside as affordable. The shared podium will include 440 parking spaces, nearly 125,000 square feet of commercial space, and one bicycle storage space per residence. Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture is the design architect, as they are for another recent JDL development, One Chicago.

1200 West Fulton rendering by Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture
Ground floor plan via Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture
Layout of a typical floor plan via Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture
Rendering from Hartshorne shows how the two phases would occur.
Site view from overhead via Google Maps.
This single-story brick building at 1200 West Fulton was demolished last year.
Now-demolished 1200 West Fulton.
Empty site at 1200 West Fulton Market.
Empty site at 1200 West Fulton Market, looking north.
Looking west across Racine Avenue. Single-story 1230 West Fulton is in the background.
The former Four Star Foods building, at 1230 West Fulton, will need to be demolished.
1230 West Fulton.
1230 West Fulton.

Glass is now in session at 919 West Fulton

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If you look about midway up 919 West Fulton, you’ll see the first level of glass, plus a little bit of the second, has been installed on the curtain wall. I don’t know when that got started, but the last couple times I’ve gone by here (on the L) I’ve been looking toward street level to see if there were any windows in yet. So I might be lucky I didn’t miss them this time. I was walking west on Fulton east of Halsted, and that’s when I first noticed it, just beyond the FULTON MARKET DISTRICT sign. you see above.

So that’s another milestone reached, with topping out and removing the tower crane already achieved. Congrats to the team of:

Skender – General Contractor
Adjustable Concrete – Concrete Contractor
Fulton Street Companies – Developer
FitzGerald – Design Architect
And everyone else on the build.

The 11-story, 530,000-square-foot office building is scheduled for completion in 2025.

919 West Fulton drops the tower crane; 7 remain in Chicago’s skies

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919 West Fulton no longer has a tower crane, having taken it down last week. Skender (who watched crane removal up close and personal in that Instagram video) topped out the building in July, so it stuck around for a bit before being lowered to the ground.

The Fulton Market District still has one tower crane in operation, at 220 North Ada. There are six others around town:

2 at UChicago Medicine in Hyde Park
Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park
Project H.O.O.D. in Grand Crossing
1723 South Michigan in the South Loop
400 Lake Shore in Streeterville

We have one permit awaiting erection, at the Thompson Center in The Loop. I was told yesterday that should go up by the end of the month.

Craneless 919 West Fulton, photographed September 10, 2024:

Skender proclaims topping out of 919 West Fulton

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919 West Fulton has topped out. Photo courtesy of Connor Hirsch at Skender Construction.

A post Wednesday afternoon on Skender’s Instagram Stories announced the topping out of 919 West Fulton in the Fulton Market District. The West Loop office building, now at its ultimate 11-story height, topped out less than 10 months after receiving a foundation permit, on September 29 of last year. The official groundbreaking was held in December 2023.

Congratulations to Skender and their concrete partner Adjustable Concrete, developer Fulton St. Companies, and design architect FitzGerald.

As of Friday July 12, curtain wall installation hadn’t begun, so that’s the next big milestone to watch for.

All photo were taken July 12:

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919 West Fulton continues trending upward in the West Loop

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An overhead view of 919 West Fulton from Skender on Instagram.

As you can see from Skender’s Instagram post above, Fulton Street Companies‘ latest development, 919 West Fulton, an 11-story office building in the heart of the West Loop/Fulton Market District, continues its progress. All work is above street level now.

Photos were taken Monday, April 22:

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919 West Fulton sprouts above street level

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919 West Fulton from under the L on Lake Street.

919 West Fulton had just started poking up out of the ground last time we visited. Now, you can walk along North Sangamon and look up to see progress, as the core juts skyward on this future office building from *Fulton Street Companies.

*Remember the whole 917 vs 919 thing from earlier this month? It looks like perhaps there’s a resolution, as that link from Fulton Street Companies now refers to this project as 919. The old link, the 917 link, is dead.

With the full building permit in hand for this one, having been issued back in November, here are a few more of the players on this team (shameless attempt on my part to chime in on March Madness):
FitzGerald – Design Architect
Thornton Tomasetti – Structural Engineer
Midwest Masonry – Masonry Contractor
Edwards Engineering – Refrigeration, Ventilation Contractor
DW Mechanical Group – Plumbing Contractor
Maron Electric Company – Electrical Contractor
MAP Strategies – Permit Expeditor

Progress continues from Skender and Adjustable. Check it out, photographed on Wednesday, March 20:

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919 West Fulton goes construction progress 3D

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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: Office building at 919 West Fulton is underway

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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.

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1043 Fulton brings the pane

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Power Construction is installing windows at 1043 Fulton, and a lot of them, on the north and west façades. Still waiting on glass for the south façade, while that east-facing masonry wall probably won’t need them.

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A tower crane, by many other names, comes down from Fulton Market.

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See over there? That used to be a tower crane.

Remove 1043 Fulton from Chicago’s active tower crane list. You can also remove 1025 West Fulton, 237 North Aberdeen, 1045 West Fulton, and 1045 On Fulton, since all those monikers have been used for this property. (Not this property, though.)

No matter the name, Power Construction topped out the 12-story building in May, and now the tower crane is being disassembled and removed from the site. Still waiting on the first signs of curtain-wall glass.

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