As residential demand in downtown Chicago increases along with property values, every square, rectangle, polygon, rhombus, trapezoid and even triangle is primed for development. Including the triangle at 640 North Morgan Street in River West.
It’s a triangle-shaped property bordered by North Morgan Street to the east, a weird little stub of West Erie Street to the north, and the Kennedy Expressway’s Ohio Street onramp on the third side.
Once construction starts, we’ll be flooded with e-mails from commuters wondering what’s being built there, so here are the details:
- Developer: The Domain Group
- Architecture firm: Vari Architects
- Floors: 6
- Maximum height: 64 feet
- Residences: 25
- Lot size: 12,366 square feet
- Floor area ratio: 4.07 (Zoning B2-5)
- Parking spaces: 26
- Width: 152 feet
- Depth: 105 feet
- Hypotenuse: 163 feet
- Hippopotamus: Like a fat, wet rhino
Location: 640 North Morgan Street, River West
August 29, 2017
Hippopotamus: Like a fat, wet rhino
… nice