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Humongous caissons still rule the day at Vista Tower
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Elevate Lincoln Park raises a tower crane
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Having ceremoniously broken ground on the first of the month, Elevate Lincoln Park has begun celebrating yet another milestone; a tower crane is being assembled on the site of the future rental development. It’s a shiny yellow one too, the best kind. And you’ll be able to see it next to the elevated tracks when riding the Red, Brown, and Purple Line trains. It more than makes up for not getting to watch people play tennis atop the old Lincoln Centre condos, right? Wait. Did anyone ever play tennis up there?
Moot point. What’s important here is this: Elevate Lincoln Park, a Baker Development project, will feature 191 apartments, three levels of parking, and ground-floor commercial space, designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz.
1200 South Indiana gets a permit for 792 apartments in the South Loop
A rendering of 1200 South Indiana from Rafael Viñoly Architects.
We knew it was coming. It’s here now.
1200 South Indiana, the 76-story supertall by Rafael Viñoly Architects, received a permit from the City of Chicago on Friday to begin foundation work. The Crescent Heights development means 792 apartments at the south end of Grant Park, along Roosevelt Road between Michigan and Indiana Avenues. Expect 12 (twelve?!) levels of parking and about 12,000 square feet of retail space as well, not to mention all the creature comforts you’d expect from new high-end (and sky-high) rentals in Chicago.
Now skyscraper nerds will have to split our spectating time between 1200 South Indiana and Vista Tower, which is already captivating audiences with caisson work of epic proportions at 363 East Wacker Drive. As with Vista, McHugh Construction is the general contractor on 1200 South Indiana.
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- The foundation permit.
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- Goodbye ugly, empty lot!
Vista Tower caisson work, second only to the Cubs as a spectator sport
Even the pigeons are mesmerized by caisson work going on at Vista Tower.
Vista Tower doesn’t need pre-sales of condo units. Just charge $5 for each one of us leaning against the railings along Wacker Drive, and by The Tides and The Shoreham atop Field Boulevard. It would raise a fortune.
Case Foundation continues to bore holes into the Lakeshore East earth, then fills them up with cement and rebar and corrugated metal tubes and even the occasional iron tube. Seriously, stop by and watch some time. Unless you have a meeting to go to. because you won’t make it back to the office in time.
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- Found you! My trun to hide!
Construction Update: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Near North
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Meetinghouse in Near North.
Construction is above street level at the new Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Meetinghouse at 822 North Clark Street in Near North. The 7-story church, designed by Dixon + Associates of Utah, began construction back in May. The full building permit was filed on the first of August. McHugh Construction is the general contractor.
It’s a CaissonFest at Vista Tower
That’s a 12′-diameter, 20′-long caisson on the right, with a longer one being trucked in.
Case Foundation is on the scene (you thought I was gonna say “on the case” didn’t you…You are so predictable) at Vista Tower, boring holes into the earth and sinking caissons. Dozens and dozens of them. Deep ones, too. They’ve got twelve-foot diameter guides on site. These will be serious caissons. Some 100 feet long.
You already know all you need to know about the 93-story Vista Tower. I’ll skip the tired verbiage, and let you get right to the photos.
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- I wasn’t the only one watching.
The Sinclair loses a tower crane, but gains some glass
On Tuesday of last week, The Sinclair had two tower cranes. By the weekend, this one had been dismantled.
The Sinclair made news up in the Gold Coast for a couple reasons. First, it tore down that old Jewel store from the 1700s. Then, it erected two tower cranes on one construction lot.
Now, one of those tower cranes is gone. But in order to keep the excitement going, McHugh Construction has begun hanging glass on the first two levels. Not bad for a tower that appears to have only reached nine or ten floors.
Upon reaching its ultimate height, the Solomon Cordwell Buenz-designed Sinclair will have 35 stories and 390 apartments, with an anticipated opening of Summer 2017.
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- My last-known picture of The Sinclair with two tower cranes, from 360 Chicago at the John Hancock Center
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- The corner of LaSalle and Division. The Sinclair’s official address, for now, is 1201 North LaSalle Street.
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- The tower crane building the actual residential tower will remain on site for the duration.
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- Clark and Division.
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- The parking podium along Clark Street. It was the tower crane that built this section that is now gone.
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- Glass along Division Street.
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- Glass at the corner of Clark and Division.
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- Since its earliest days of construction, The Sinclair has had a top-notch scaffold game.
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- Tell-tale signs of where a tower crane once stood.
Elevate Lincoln Park gets a building permit
A rendering from Baker Development of Elevate Lincoln Park, which received a building permit Thursday.
You may not recognize the address (930 West Altgeld Street) but Baker Development‘s latest project, Elevate Lincoln Park, is a go. It will occupy the spaces previously known as 2518-2534 North Lincoln Avenue. On the way are 191 apartments, three levels of parking, and ground-floor commercial space, designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz.
The original schedule of events for Elevate Lincoln Park had foundation work beginning in June, so things are still a tad behind schedule. McHugh Construction may not be able to catch up to those lofty plans, but fear not. They’ll complete work all in good time.
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- The Permit, issued September 8, 2016.
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- Remember the tennis courts along the Red/Brown/Purple Line tracks? Yep, they’re gone.
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- Demolition started in May.
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- This is the blank canvas on which McHugh Construction will build Elevate Lincoln Park.
Chicago’s prettiest new Vista moving soil
Finally.
When Vista Tower got its foundation permit back in the first week if August, I assumed equipment would flood into the lot in New East Side the following morning to begin tearing up the land. In reality, it took a few weeks for anything to happen at all. But it’s happening now, and what they’re digging in for, is the long haul.
Want to know more about the 93-story Vista Tower? Let me see what I can find for you:
Yep. A lot of people are talking about it.
With demolition complete, Elevate Lincoln Park can up its game
The signs are everywhere: ELEVATE Lincoln Park is coming.
There isn’t even rubble left of Lincoln Centre; just memories. Memories of an R before an E that just never looks right. Those tennis courts are gone too.
With the lots at 2518-2534 North Lincoln Avenue scraped clean, ELEVATE Lincoln Park can now begin construction. A project of Baker Development, ELEVATE Lincoln Park brings a 10-story, 200-unit rental complex, designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz, plus 16,300 square feet of retail space, to the Lincoln Park neighborhood. McHugh Construction will be the general contractor, with completion slated for October 2017.
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- A rendering of ELEVATE Lincoln Park from Baker Development.
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