Flora is ready for its October 15 debut

Posted on October 12, 2024 by danieldschell

Flora (1114 West Carroll Avenue) is the newest addition to the western Chicago Skyline.

Flora, the brand-spankin’-new apartment tower at 1114 West Carroll Avenue in the Fulton Market District, is getting ready for its big opening on Tuesday, October 15. If you’ve been to the website to check on availability for studio, one-bed, two-bed, and even three-bedroom floor plans, you know that’s the day you can move in to your new pad.

The 34-story, 368-unit apartment tower, includes a below-grade 95-space garage and storage for 185 bicycles, is a sharp-looking addition to the westward-spreading West Loop. And there’s more coming to the neighborhood soon. Very soon. And Flora is one great reason to add a station to the Metra lines that don’t stop between Western Avenue and the Ogilvie Transportation Center.

Not that this should ever be a barometer for good or bad from a development, but this one lives up to its renderings. Congratulations to the Flora team, including developer Trammell Crow Company, design architects ESG Architecture & Design, and general contractor Power Construction. May your units fill up quickly. I’d happily live here, and I have a birthday coming up (next year) if anyone wants to gift me a one-bedroom.

Power got their first permit for Flora back on January 9 of 2023 with the issuance of the foundation permit. Several more permits followed, including the tower crane two weeks later, the full building permit on March 7, 2023, and permission to install four passenger elevators on October 26 of last year.

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Flora, at 1114 West Carroll, blossoms into a stellar tower

Posted on May 6, 2024 by danieldschell

The last time I posted about 1114 West Carroll, it was 1114 West Carroll. Now, it has a new moniker: Flora. And a name change is enough of a reason (to me) to throw a few more pics out there. But more so because I just happen to really love the look of this tower.

And I’m not going to be neutral when it comes to the West Loop/Fulton Market District. It’s my favorite neighborhood in Chicago. And while Flora feels like it’s situated a little too far west for my liking, this portion of Fulton Market is going to become very dense very soon, putting Flora right in the middle of everything. Yep, I’d live here.

The 34-story, 368-unit apartment tower should be welcoming its first residents this summer. Won’t be surprised if it fills up quickly.

Sunny afternoon at 1114 West Carroll

Posted on March 8, 2024 by danieldschell

When I was at 1114 West Carroll a couple weeks ago, I promised I’d come back soon on a sunny day for better light. Because I think this is one of those building that looks so much better in direct sunlight. I think it’s mostly because of those windows. I love those windows.

A man of my word, returneth I have. And here are the photos to prove it. (…By the way, the above link from ESG Architecture & Design has some fantastic renderings)

Hyde Park Labs (Harper Court Phase II) has topped out

Posted on February 28, 2024 by danieldschell

The tower crane that topped out Hyde Park Labs, Hyde Park, Chicago.

As reported by Urbanize Chicago earlier this month, Hyde Park Labs has topped out at 5207 South Harper in the Hyde Park Community Area (and neighborhood.) The 13-story, 302,000-square-foot facility includes a 125-space parking garage, plus nine levels of lab and office space. Its anticipated opening is in the fourth quarter of 2024.

Congrats on the topping out to:

Trammell Crow Company and Beacon Capital Partners, the developers.
Elkus Manfredi Architects, the design architect.
Power Construction, general contractor, with an assist from UJAMAA
Adjustable Concrete Construction, concrete contractor.

I hope you all went to the ground floor and got one of those fried catfish Po-boys and a frozen hurricane.

Photos from February 26 (photos of construction, not of the Po-boys):

Tower crane’s down, glass is near the top, at 1114 West Carroll

Posted on February 25, 2024 by danieldschell

1114 West Carroll from the corner of Carroll and May.

There isn’t much construction left to see at 1114 West Carroll. Trammell Crow Company’s 34-story, 368-unit residential tower has topped out, the tower crane has been taken down, and the curtain wall is inching ever closer to the top. So I decided not to wait for a sunny day to snap some progress shots. As with all glass towers, this one deserves better lighting, so I’ll be back when the sun’s out.

Progress Update: 1114 West Carroll

Posted on November 8, 2023 by danieldschell

***1114 West Carroll*** in the Fulton Market District.

It’s time for a construction progress update at 1114 West Carroll Avenue in the Fulton Market District. These photos were taken October 24, so add a couple levels of progress since then.

Editors note: Those windows are cool.

Hyde Park Labs (Harper Court Phase II) has gone 3-D in Hyde Park

Posted on August 23, 2023 by danieldschell

Post-demolition, pre-construction for Hyde Park Labs at 5201 South Harper, 3/1/2023.

Made my first visit to Hyde Park Labs (at that link, click on “View Brochure” for everything you’ll ever want to know about Hyde Park Labs) at 5201 South Harper since this was still a fenced-off dirt lot waiting to get started. Well, not only has it started, but the crane’s in the air and the core has risen to — let’s call it the fifth floor. They’re going up to 13.

Let’s see if I have all the players correct on this project, the 2nd phase of Harper Court:

Trammell Crow Company and Beacon Capital Partners are the developers.
Elkus Manfredi Architects is the design architect.
Power Construction is the general contractor, with an assist from UJAMAA
Adjustable Concrete Construction is the concrete contractor.

Now, how ’bout some permit dates:

Demo of the single-story building previously on this site, issued 1/17/2023
Tower crane, issued 2/22/2023
“Selective” demo for existing building & parking garage, issued 4/6/2023
Caissons, issued 5/9/2023
Full build, issued 6/15/2023

And finally, some photos of progress, taken August 21:

Progress Update: 1114 West Carroll bringing 368 more apartments to the Fulton Market District

Posted on August 21, 2023 by danieldschell

There’s big progress to report at 1114 West Carroll.

1114 West Carroll, the 34-story, 368-unit apartment tower from Trammell Crow Company in Dallas is really showing out in the Fulton Market District. Don’t believe me? Check out the gallery of Power Construction progress, who appear to have reached the underside of Floor 11:

Another Fulton Market apartment tower begins, as 1114 West Carroll sprouts from the ground

Posted on May 10, 2023 by danieldschell

1114 West Carroll has gone vertical in the Fulton Market District.

1114 West Carroll, the 34-story, 368-unit apartment tower from developer Trammell Crow Company, is beginning to go 3-D from its excavation site in the Fulton Market District. On the site where once stood a Ryder truck-rental site, GC Power Construction has been digging out space for the below-grade 95 parking spaces for several weeks. But now, the core is rising.

Designed by ESG Architecture & Design, who also teamed with Trammell Crow on the Fulton Labs project on the north side of the Metra tracks, 1114 West Carroll will add retail space at ground level. Below-grade parking + ground-level retail = no parking podium, if my math is correct.

To date, 1114 has received the following building permits:
foundation issued 1/9/23
tower crane issued 1/23/23
full build issued 3/7/23
hoist issued 4/25/23

I got over here a couple times while the digging was still being dug — you’ll see photos from those visits in the gallery, including shots from Craning Day in March — but verticality is always a nice milestone. Those pics were taken May 7.

Carroll Avenue demolitions continue in Fulton Market, with more on the horizon

Posted on May 27, 2021 by danieldschell

As demolition by Heneghan Wrecking at ADM Milling Company and 1200 West Carroll continue, comes news that Carroll Avenue could see a lot more tearing down and redeveloping in the very near future.

Brick by brick, the ADM office building at 1300 West Carroll is being taken apart.

And the ADM silos at the west end of the 1300 block are being chipped away as well.

The former Midtown Transfer buildings in the 1200 block are all but gone.

The Happy Tails & Trails building at 1240 is the only building remaining on the north side of the 1200 block. For now.

Crain’s Chicago and Urbanize Chicago both reported this week about plans to redevelop both sides of West Carroll’s eastern 1100 block. We know Trammell Crow from their work just north across the Metra tracks at Fulton Labs (which only has one level of curtain wall to go, btw.)

315 N May. It wouldn’t take much to improve this site.

On the south side of the 1100 block, 315 North May fronts May Street, Carroll Ave, and Aberdeen Street.

On the north side of the 1100 block is a Ryder truck-rental lot.

The Ryder lot at 1100 W Carroll. Even easier to improve this site.

The Ryder “building” at 1112 West Carroll. Fulton Labs is in the background.

Stay tuned. The ever-changing Fulton Market District is in for even bigger changes.

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