Dirt Stirring at Wolf Point South …er… Salesforce Tower
Cell phone cameras are wonderful things. They let astronomy apps label the stars at night. They let us share precious moments with loved ones in other countries. And they let someone way up at the top of a skyscraper on the other side of the Chicago River take a picture of drilling happening at the future site of Salesforce Tower Chicago. You may remember STC as Wolf Point South, the not-quite-60-story tower that Hines and the Kennedy...
Office Building Penciled in For Illinois and LaSalle
As downtown Chicago grows, not all of the projects sprouting up are beanstalks. Some have to be broccoli: Good, hearty filler that provides essential nutrients for the city’s economy, and are best served covered in cheese. Under the cheese this time is an office building proposed for 450 North LaSalle Street — the corner of West Illinois and North LaSalle — which will erase another evil surface parking lot from the city’s land...
Superior Work Begins on Superior House on Superior
Site prep has begun on a new condo block in River North. When complete, Superior House will feature 34 homes in a 12-story building on the corner of Superior and Sedgwick. The building is a project from Ascend Real Estate Group, designed by FitzGerald Associates, with Gary Lee Partners doing the interiors. If you didn’t get the swish corner office at work, then maybe this is where you should sink your Christmas bonus, because...
Another River North Condo Block Tops Out/Off
There will soon be 38 more options for people who want to live in River North. That’s the number of condominiums that will be available soon at Three Sixty West, the Belgravia Group building going up at 360 West Erie Street. Three Sixty West topped out recently, and is expected to start welcoming new homeowners in the spring of 2019. It’s already 60% sold. When we last reported on Three Sixty, the GREC design was slated...
Completing Wolf Point: Salesforce Tower Chicago and Its Semi-Public Observation Floor
The Salesforce Tower is the most skyline-defining building to land in San Francisco since SCB’s One Rincon Hill. Now Chicago is getting a Salesforce Tower of its own. Hines made the announcement Friday that San Francisco’s largest non-gub’mint employer will expand its cloud in the Windy City, and sent over the nifty rendering above, showing what Salesforce Tower Chicago will look like. You probably remember it as...
Wolf Point East Construction Update From Above and Below
If you enjoyed what bKL Architecture did with Wolf Point West, you’ll love what’s happening across the peninsula at Wolf Point East. The second sister in the Wolf Point tower trio is going through a growth spurt, and with snow flying this season, is already getting buttoned up in glass. The Pelli Clarke Pelli design will bring another 698 apartments to River North, snuggled inside a 60-story skyscraper. In the photo above...
Downtown Chicago Could Get 11 New Skyscrapers This Week
If there’s a skyscraper nerd in your office, don’t be surprised if he calls in sick on Thursday. That’s the day the Chicago Plan Commission considers the largest number of new skyscrapers for downtown Chicago since August of 2014, when four new towers were on the docket. This time, there are 11 major buildings in play: 700 at the River in River West 1,500 total residences 497 car parking spaces Total FAR: 8.1...
353 West Grand Gussied Up and Ready for the Chicago Plan Commission
River North’s next de-luxe apartments in the sky-ay-ay may rise at 353 West Grand. The project, which has been in the works since 2013, is finally ready to head to the Chicago Plan Commission for a vote. Canada’s Onni Group is trying to turn the space that used to be the Clark and Barlow hardware store into a 38-story residential tower with 356 new homes. The first version of the project, unveiled in 2015, was a 32-story...
Onni Adjusts Its Plan For 353 West Grand, But Is It Enough?
Some skyscrapers go from announcement to completion in a couple of years. Others take longer. 353 West Grand, a proposal from Vancouver’s Onni, is one of the ones taking the more ponderous route. We’ve known since 2013 that something big was coming to the southwest corner of Grand and Orleans, the former location of the Clark and Barlow hardware store. In 2015, Onni put forward a plan from River...
If You Believe in Chicago, Rahm Has a Bridge to Sell You — No, Really
How Chicago are you? Sure, you’ve got a game ball you caught in the cheap seats at Wrigley Field. Yes, you have all 5,600 Studs Terkel WFMT recordings on your iPod . You even have the CTA map shower curtain. But do you have a Chicago bridge of your very own? Loop North News reports that the city is going to part with one of its most traveled bridges: The Chicago Avenue bridge. The best part is that this unique piece of city...
