The tower crane has been planted at 741 North Wells in River North. Expect to see full assembly starting Tuesday of next week.
What is this? I’m stumped.
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741 North Wells will be a 178-unit apartment tower. It was designed by Antunovich Associates Architects, and according to their website, will offer a mix of 70 studios, 68 one-bedroom, and 40 two-bedroom units, with “a full complement of amenities including a rooftop terrace with pool, meeting facilities, exercise area, bicycle storage, and parking for roughly 50 vehicles.” There will also be about 9.400 square feet of street-level retail space.
The City of Chicago issued permits for: The full build on 8/25/2022 Caissons and foundation on 7/19/2002 The tower crane on 6/22/2022 Demo permits for 739 N Wells and 745 N Wells on 5/12/22
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The tower crane is gone, but work hasn’t skipped a beat at 345 North Morgan in the Fulton Market District.
Sterling Bay’s latest boutique office building is installing windows on what is shaping up to be my favorite new building for nighttime views. And I say that having only been there on sunny days. But mark my words; this is one of those sites you’ll want to get to just as it gets dark at night with the interior lights shining brightly.
345 North Morgan is a ten-story, 200,000-square-foot office building designed by Chicago’s own Eckenhoff SaundersSkender is the general contractor. Their task, along with Adjustable Concrete Construction on concrete, is to have this office building ready for tenants before we close the door on 2022.
The old 345 North Morgan, taken from the original B.U.C. HQ in the West Loop. Demolition wrapping up, December 16, 2019. Stalworth Underground doing caisson work, 08/31/2021
It wasn’t until I looked up the permit history that I remembered 345 having a little trouble getting started. Of course, over the past 24 months, who among us *hasn’t* had a little trouble getting started. The old paint store at 345 North Morgan got a demolition permit on December 5 of 2019. (I still have an unfinished draft that I started in January of 2020.) The foundation permit for the new building was next, issued March 12, 2020. But then things went idle for awhile before caisson work began in August of last summer. The full build permit was issued in June of 2021, and the tower crane was permitted on September 3. And here we are.
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It’s been almost 15 months since foundation and tower crane permits were issued for Sterling Bay’s 345 North Morgan, an 11-story, 230,000-square-foot office building in the nearly-impossible-to-keep-up-with Fulton Market District. That’s a looong time to wait on a tower crane.
But Monday, the full building permit was issued for this one, so we’re keeping crossed fingers that Three Four Five will get started soon.
Located next door to Sterling Bay’s Ace Hotel, and across the street from their Google offices at 1KFulton, 345 North Morgan will include ground-floor retail space and parking spots for 34 cars, according to that aforementioned permit.
609 West Randolph topped out earlier this month, but there’s still a lot of work to accomplish for Skender. As proof of that, I’ll share some photos taken May 17 and 21.
Glass coming soon. 609 West Randolph, May 2021
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Skender took to Twitter Friday to announce the topping-out of 609 West Randolph in the West Loop.
Congratulations to Vista Property Group and the entire project team for topping off 609 W Randolph this week. The 15-story office building will be complete in early 2022. pic.twitter.com/of6IB0YTjn
Design architect Antunovich Associates was all over the ceremonial news as well, and much earlier. I saw this post and thought “Already? That can’t be right.” So, my apologies to everyone at Antunovich.
— AntunovichAssociates (@AntunovichAssoc) May 11, 2021
Heck, I was there that day (and a couple days before that), and I had no idea topping out was imminent. Nice work by everyone involved. Fast work, too.
Next milestone to come: Glass.
609 West Randolph. May 7-11, 2021
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