Sometimes I just stare at this one. So pretty. Enjoy One Bennett Park’s progress as of October 31.
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Unboxing Chicago’s brand-new Apple Store
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465 North Park jumps the tower crane again as it keeps growing taller
Evidence of a tower-crane jump at 465 North Park.
*** AIA Chicago is sponsoring a tour of 465 North Park this afternoon. Get on this! Deets here
A couple weekends ago, Power Construction jumped the tower crane at 465 North Park, as work is ongoing on Jupiter Realty Company’s 47-story apartment tower.
It seems like only yesterday I drove from Uptown to the empty lot bounded by Illinois, North Water, and New Streets, with Park Drive on the west, planning to leave my car in the surface parking lot. Yep, that’s when I was first introduced to the Loews construction site. And now the north end of that same lot is filled in with 465 North Park.
When complete, the Pappageorge Haymes Partners-designed apartment tower will boast 444 rental units, 181 parking spaces, and nearly 12,000 square feet of retail space. Power’s been on the build here since getting a foundation permit back in July. Caisson work started that same week. A tower crane was planted, and official groundbreaking ceremonies were held, in September. The first week of October 2016 saw the tower crane assembled. And that brings us to where we are now, exactly one year into the life of 465 North Park’s tower crane.
More hotel progress, as Aloft Chicago Mag Mile grows in Streeterville
Aloft Chicago Mag Mile grows toward 18 stories ate 243 East Ontario Street in Streeterville.
On a very busy block for hospitality, the Aloft Chicago Mag Mile is beginning to push skyward where the former Museum of Contemporary Art once stood in Streeterville. The 18-story, 336-room Valerio Dewalt Train-designed hotel will join the brand-new Hotel EMC2 and Marriott Fairfield Inn just across Ontario Street, plus the Ivy Boutique next door.
Tishman, which recently completed the Kenect project in River West, is the general contractor for the Aloft Chicago Mag Mile. This is their lone tower crane on the Chicago count. Completion is expected in Winter 2018.
More photos than I know what to do with: Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center
There’s more glass happening at the Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center in Streeterville. Lots more glass. Once a feature exclusive to the north elevation, the south side’s getting cladding now as well.
Power Construction tells us not to fret about losing tower cranes just yet. One crane will come down soon, probably in early November, but the second crane could finish out the year still before it’s taken down. They must know how painful it would be to say goodbye to both at once.
One Bennett Park shines in the dark
Remember when we last visited One Bennett Park? Of course you do, because it was just last week. But that was during the day. (A sunny day; the best kind of day to see it.) This time, let’s check it out at night, which, before we know it, will be at about 4:30.
Sorry, I just depressed myself. Yay, Chicago winters.
One Bennett Park turns 50
From Grant Park, you can see the growth of One Bennett Park, now 50/69ths of the way up.
Related Midwest announced this week that One Bennett Park, their 69-story residential tower underway in the Streeterville neighborhood, has reached the 50th floor, nearly three-quarters of the way to its ultimate 69-story height. Chicago Architecture Blog had the press release yesterday.
One Bennett has been a marvel to watch, with all that yellow form work and blue wrapping. Dual tower cranes doesn’t hurt its curb appeal either. The joint design of Robert A.M. Stern Architects and GREC Architects brings a mix of 348 apartments and condominiums to town, slated to be ready for the moving vans in 2019, plus a new public park (Bennett Park, of course.)
As appears to be today’s theme, Lendlease is the general contractor on this project.
And now, some distant views of One Bennett Park’s 50 floors of progress:
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- A view from Goose Island.
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- One Bennett’s 2 tower cranes, with 1 of Vista Tower’s in the way.
On October 20, we will all be teachers, as Chicago gets a shiny new Apple Store on our desks
Consumers arrive by boat to get in line for the October 20 opening of the new Chicago Apple Store. Probably.
Multiple outlets have reported (honestly, everyone has mentioned it. Call your Aunt Susie, and I bet it’s the first thing she wants to talk about) that Chicago’s new Apple Store will open October 20 on the Magnificent Mile. When it does, it will be the place to go for fancy smart phones, computers, watches, and more. But what it used to be was *the* place to see a really low tower crane. You tower crane you could just about reach up and touch.
Power Construction continues to add finishing touches to the two-story glass box at Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River. Once complete, they’ll turn their attention to building the Apple Store 2S. (Not true at all.)
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- The Chicago Apple Store will be remembered for this ridiculously low tower crane…
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- …this cool construction barge…
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- …and this crazy-looking glass installing machine.
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- Photographing you photographing me.
With lofty expectations of 18 stories, the Aloft Chicago Mag Mile goes vertical
The first of 18 floors is rising at the Aloft Chicago Mag Mile hotel in Streeterville.
The Aloft Chicago Mag Mile hotel has started poking up from the ground at 243 East Ontario Street in Streeterville. Tishman, the developer and general contractor, has work on the elevator core rising just above street level. The 18-story, 336-room hotel got rolling in January, with a demolition permit for the former Museum of Contemporary Art building.
Demo occurred in February, after which Tishman broke ground and began work on the new project. Foundation and tower-crane permits followed in March, with the full-build permit coming through in June. Tishman hopes to have the Aloft Chicago Mag Mile open in Winter 2018, which could be just over, or just under, one year from the start of demolition. That will depend on the actual opening date.
Touring the Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center with Power Construction
Northwestern University’s Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center.
Great big huge Thank You to Brian Tuffy and Power Construction for a tour Friday of the Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center in Streeterville. Now topped out with the ceremonial purple beam in place, the 14-story Phase One can expect lots of curtain wall installation in the coming weeks.
As for those two tower cranes, they’ll be around for another month or so. Phase Two, which will see 16 additional stories added to the current phase, won’t begin anytime soon, and tower cranes ain’t free just because you aren’t using them.
Photos galore:
The beginning of the pedestrian bridge over Superior Street that will connect the S-Q Center to 320 East Superior.
Some of the work being done on the four below-ground levels.
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- Surprisingly not an art wall.
Elevator shafts, from below and above. Taken with great bravery.
Tower cranes. They’ll be around a couple more months.
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- Base of the north tower crane.
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- The south tower crane.
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- The north tower crane tie-in.
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- That’s some impressive hardware.
Views from inside the upper floors.
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- The views aren’t bad.
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- Lots of glass to be installed.
Finally, the massive generator on the ground floor that will power the entire facility in case of a power outage.
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