301 South Green is to be a 36-story, 362-unit apartment tower in Chicago’s West Loop. Currently home to one- and two-story brick buildings, the new development would wipe out those two structures and replace them with a glass tower designed by Goettsch Partners.
The tower would include about 1,500 square feet of ground-floor retail space, 128 parking stalls (for cars) and 250-some spaces to park your bike. Per the Goettsch website, 73 apartments would be affordable units. Per that same website, as well as the presentation shown on the Plan Commission’s site, the developers are GSP Development and Golub & Company.
The Chicago Plan Commission approved the development in October 2022. Since then, news has been quiet.
Power Construction has topped out Coppia, the 19-story, 298-unit residential tower in the West Loop from developer Pizzuti. A design by Goettsch Partners, Coppia is expected to open to residents in 2024. The walling-off of the Eisenhower Expressway continues to stretch westward.
Photos are from August 28, 2023:
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Goettsch Partners rendering of Coppia, 1101 West Van Buren.
Coppia, a 19-story, 298-unit residential tower from developer Pizzuti, broke ground early this year at 1101 West Van Buren Street in the West Loop. The apartment project fills in one of the few remaining spaces along the north side of the Eisenhower Expressway as you head west out of town. Design architect Goettsch Partners and general contractor Power Construction are part of Pizzuti’s team on this one.
Coppia has received permits for: the tower crane on 12/15/2022 caissons on 12/22/20022 the construction hoist on 1/18/2023 foundations through level 4 on 1/18/2023
Photos taken April 12:
The second grouping of photos was taken March 15. There wasn’t much to see then. But lots of progress since.
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There are only a couple floors of curtain wall left to install on the east tower, but we still have one tower crane to savor here, so let’s make the best of the rest of our time together. (Cue dramatic music)
Parting is always such sweet sorrow, but tower cranes don’t stay in one place forever, so shed no tears for the Potain MR298 Luffing Jib workhorse atop 320 South Canal in the West Loop. Last week, a derrick crane was installed to dismantle and lower the tower crane, and that it did, with removal, from what I could see 52 stories below, wrapping up Monday.
I made it over here in time to see a couple crane sections on the ground, and one loaded up onto a truck to be hauled away. I tried to wait for the truck to pull out of the construction site, for the dramatic grand exit, but I lack patience. I also tried waiting around long enough to see the derrick crane lift a load of steel up to the top. I didn’t last that long. This was interesting though. I’m going to make some assumptions here, but that load of steel looked heavy, and that derrick crane doesn’t have much reach away from the glass cladding on the west face of the tower. There were guy-wires on each end of the load, running on tracks running up the side of the tower, to keep the steel from rotating, which would have sent one end or the other crashing through the façade. Or at least scratching the heck out of the glass. Who knows, maybe these are common, but they’re something I’d never noticed before. The photo in the gallery below with the two red circles shows those attachments.
15 minutes elapsed between the time I took this first photo of the steel lift and the second photo, and it’s only about 3/4 of the way up. Glad that crew has more patience than I.
15 minutes later . . .
Also: Can we talk about that giant Suction Cup Monster for those gargantuan panes of glass?
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Shaky video because I refuse to lug a tripod around with me. Sorry. I hope the guys up there aren’t anywhere near as unsteady.
A curtain wall panel is set in place at 320 South Canal, Union Station Tower.
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The Rivere will replace the CFD firehouse at 450 North Dearborn.
That’s right, I hashtagged #firescraper. I want that to become a thing.
This post was started back in February 2020. We really want this one to get started. How many buildings can be referred to as mixed-use because they’ll contain office space, retail space, parking, and a freakin’ firehouse!?
When the firehouse is demolished, as with all demolitions, water will be sprayed on the crumbling structure to limit dust. Who’s better at spraying water than the Chicago Fire Department? A match made in heaven, I tell ya.
A couple more photos of the firehouse for you, plus renderings of The Rivere from Goettsch Partners:
Crews were able to remove one section of Tower Crane C at One Chicago Thursday.
Where there were three, there now is just one.
One Chicago once blessed the city with three tower cranes, but progress means we have to say goodbye to them one-by-one, and Tower Crane C has done all it can do to top out the west tower. So down it comes.
320 South Canal (Union Station Tower) has topped out in the West Loop.
Goettsch Partners announced on their Instagram page last night that the final beam has been lifted into place at 320 South Canal, celebrating the topping-out of the West Loop’s freshest skyscraper.
The residential (condos and apartments,) office, and retail block from JDL Development is making its mark on Chicago’s skyline.
The 49-story western tower topped out back in January, while the 76-story condo tower should be really darn close to following suit, if it hasn’t already.
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