Controversial Maryville Project Gets Greenlight Paperwork
Chicago’s newest luxury lakefront high-rise is about to take off at the corner of Montrose and Clarendon. It’s best known as the Maryville Project, which is replacing the demolished Columbus-Maryville children’s shelter that was originally erected as Cuneo Hospital in 1957. Friday the City of Chicago issued the first construction permits for the huge breeze-blocking tower that’s using the address 811 West...
Chicago Lakeshore Fieldhouse to be Skinned Like a Fish
The Chicago Park District has selected Near North’s STLArchitects to build a new fieldhouse for Williams Park, at 2710 South Dearborn Street on the city’s South Side. Williams Park is the dividing line between two historic Chicago neighborhoods: Dearborn Homes and Harold Ickes Homes. Together, most people know the area better as Douglas, or even Bronzeville, which is immediately to its east and south. Williams Park was...
Fifield and SCB’s Sinclair Over-Achieves in the Gold Coast
The most visible sign of the rejuvenation of the corner of Clark and Division Streets is the new Sinclair tower rising where a Jewel supermarket used to sprawl across half a city block. The new SCB-designed tower includes a bigger, better Jewel in the parking podium. Fifield’s building is also expected to have 390 apartments, ranging from modest 500-square-foot studios up to 2,400-square-foot, four-bedroom penthouses at the...
