Construction Starts on Wolf Point’s Third Skyscraper
Skyscraper enthusiasts are often described as shut-ins. So with city and state health edicts keeping them even farther removed from society than usual, it took a while for word to reach the pack that construction is underway on Wolf Point South. Salesforce Tower Chicago construction in April 2020 (Courtesy of YoChicago!) YoChicago! knew that construction began in the first full week of this month, and sent in the photograph above...
City Slaps Downtown Surface Parking Lot
If you’ve been picking up what we’ve been putting down over the last 17 years, you probably grok that we like surface parking lots the same way we like a Chicago cabbie hoking at us at 2am trying to solicit a fare: Not at all. That’s why we were happy to read a letter the city sent to the lawyer for a particular patch of downtown last month, letting him know that an existing surface parking lot in that particular...
Canada Goose Island Lark For Dog Depot Ferreted Out
While many people expected the enormous project called 700 at the River to be the next big thing to happen on Chicago Avenue, Canadian developer Onni Group has just put another dog in the race, dishing about its off-the-chain redevelopment plans for the old Greyhound yard at the southern tip of Goose Island. The old Greyhound service yard (via Apple Maps) The Chicago Tribune (no longer related to Tribune Media which owns 700 at the...
Site of One of Chicago’s First Walmarts to Become an Office Building
Remember when there was that cool art supply store right off the CTA Brown Line at Chicago Avenue and then Walmart moved in and the black beret crowd in the neighborhood snapped their Blick Masterstrokes in half when they heard the news? The building that brings back those gentrification flashbacks will soon be a memory. October 2019 rendering of 777 North Franklin A plan has been submitted to the city for a nine-story office...
Wayback Wednesday: Hubbard Place Under Construction
For today’s look into the photo archive, we go back seven years to December 14, 2012 — Seven years ago. Hubbard Place under construction in December 2012 (file) That’s where we find Hubbard Place under construction at 360 West Hubbard Street in River North. The 43-story sister of Kingsbury Plaza brought another 450 new homes to the neighborhood in 2014. But in this photo from two years earlier, you can see McHugh...
Planned Riverside Hotel/Office Tower Design Tweaked, Still Looks Fabulous
Remember that plan from three years ago where someone wanted to wedge yet another hotel in along the Chicago River? Well, that someone is still pounding away at it. August 2016 rendering of 322 North Clark The plan for 322 North Clark Street was to jam a 369-foot-tall HKS-designed hotel into the surface parking lot behind the Reid Murdoch Building. The proposal was floated by Friedman Properties and included 500 hotel rooms, 85,000...
Get the Crowbar: New Hotel Skyscraper to be Wedged into River North
The River North skyscraper frenzy of a few years ago has cooled off a bit, but there’s still some spicy meatballs in the development pipeline. Diagram of 808 North Cleveland (September 2019) A developer wants to put up a new 25-story tower at 808 North Cleveland Avenue. If you’re not sure exactly where that is, it’s on Chicago Avenue across the street from The Montgomery. Intriguingly, this isn’t another condo...
Wolf Point East Tops Off. We Mean It This Time.
You no longer have to wonder if the latest skyscraper climbing into the Chicago skyline at Wolf Point will continue to grow. It won’t. This beanstalk is fully sprouted. Rendering of Wolf Point East (Courtesy of Hines) Wolf Point East is the second of three skyscrapers going up in what used to be a surface parking lot at the confluence of the Main and North branches of the Chicago River. There has been a lot of interest in the...
Wolf Point East: Almost, But Not Quite There Yet
Last week we told you about speculation that the skyscraper known as Wolf Point East had topped out. It turns out that while that’s a good guess, the building is not quite there yet. Construction of Wolf Point East (August 2019. Courtesy of River North Spy Chris.) As promised, we talked to people who talked to people who know things, and no, the notion of topping out is currently all talk. For now. Clearly, from the photo above...
Wolf Point East Shows Off, and Maybe Tops Off
Word on the street is that the second of three Wolf Point towers maybe, possibly, perhaps might have topped off. Construction of Wolf Point East (August 2019. Courtesy of River North Spy Chris.) River North Spy Chris sent in the photograph above, and the one below that back up the assertion that Wolf Point East has climbed as far as it can, though we have not yet gotten official word. Construction of Wolf Point East (August 2019....
