Time Lapse Video Shows Construction of Hubbard221 and 412 North Wells
People ’round these parts love construction photos. And the only thing people love better than a construction photo is 1,485 of them strung together in a 49½ second video. The video below shows the construction of the residential building styled HUBBARD221 and the neighboring office building at 412 North Wells. Both are a Hubbard Street Group/Centrum Realty joint designed by Hirsch Associates. The 23-story residential tower...
Wolf Point East Rises From the Chicago Riverside Muck
In spite of yesterday’s snows qualls, we’re finally getting to the part of the year when we can think about spring without jinxing ourselves. Soon Lincoln Park will be full of daffodils pushing through the flowerbeds, the Michigan Avenue sidewalks will be full of tulips pushing through the dirt in the planters, and dandelions will start pushing through the cracks in your driveway. One sprout that’s not waiting for...
Moxy Hotel Gets Ready to Take a Bow in River North
We’re just a month away from the opening of the Moxy Hotel (530 North LaSalle) on the northwest corner of LaSalle and Grand, and workers are busy… working. River North Spy Joel dunked the photo above into our tip line showing the hotel’s logo being installed on the corner. This is the third Moxy to open in the United States. There’s already a bunch in Europe. It has 156 guest rooms in 62,000 square feet of...
Walsh Construction Builds Ultimate Parkour Course at Wolf Point East
When I was a kid, we would have called what’s going on over at Wolf Point East a “jungle gym.” And my sister would promptly fall off of it, break her arm, and drive her lower teeth through her bottom lip because it was the 1970’s and soft hadn’t been invented yet. But this is the new millennium, and those millennium Millennials would probably call the weave of metal struts, risers, and other things I...
3-Eleven Now 10-4 For New Residents
The latest Catholic Church parking lot to become a skyscraper is now open for business. 3Eleven, at 311 West Illinois Street, has begun accepting move-ins The skyscraper, designed by West Town’s FitzGerald Associates for The Loop’s The John Buck Company, features 245 homes across 25 stories. It’s also immediately next door to Assumption Catholic Church, so at least the neighbors are quiet. Except for weddings....
A Crane Hatches at Wolf Point East
It was just a couple of days ago that River North Spy Chris sent us photos of crane parts being delivered to Wolf Point. Now… Bam! We have achieved crane! Chris has sent in a new set of photos showing a legitimate, if diminutive, tower crane at the heart of the construction for the 628,500-square-foot Wolf Point East. It won’t remain small for long. Wolf Point East is expected to rise 668 feet over the Chicago River,...
Wolf Point: Here Comes the Crane Again
It’s still the dead of winter in Chicago, but the next thing you know, daffodils will be shoving their yellow heads out of the dirt in Lincoln Park. Before that happens, a big yellow crane is going to rise from the dirt at Wolf Point. River North Spy Chris slid the photo above into our tip line. It shows a piece of a tower crane being delivered to the site of what will soon be Wolf Point East (313 West Wolf Point Plaza/326...
Can’t Get Enough Wolf Point? bKL’s Got You Covered
One of Chicago’s most exciting ongoing developments is the decades-delayed kitting out of Wolf Point. Skyscraper nerds from the West Loop to Waukegan have been watching Wolf in wonder as it slowly transforms from a surface parking lot into the residential and office hub of River North. While work is underway on Pelli Clark Pelli’s Wolf Point East, bKL’s Wolf Point West is the only tower of the three that has...
Caterpillars Mud Wrestling at Wolf Point
There’s something to be said for a rainy autumn day in Chicago. Something about the drizzle pattering off the pale yellow leaves of the few remaining ash trees in the city’s medians. And the low-hanging clouds that turn the city of skyscrapers into a busy village. And then there’s the mud. The people at Wolf Point know about mud. You may remember last month the hole being dug for Pelli Clarke Pelli’s East...
River North Building Appeals to Bulldogs, Comfy Footwear
Do you like bulldogs? How about comfortable shoes? If these sound like your kind of things, then you’ll be happy to know that progress is being made on the new residential block called The Ardus at 676 North LaSalle Street. The Ardus is a project by Cedar Street and the Harlem Irving Companies. It will bring another 149 new apartments to River North, on the corner of LaSalle Street and Huron. As you can see in the photograph...
