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...
Construction Crews Pounding Sand at Wolf Point East
Word on the street is that living near Wolf Point has gone from the dirge of caisson drilling to the relentless pounding of sheet piling being pounded relentlessly. Loop Spy Chris sent in the photograph above showing the ongoing pounding underway at 313 West Wolf Point Plaza. But we’re told that mere pictures can’t capture the noise and vibrations rippling through the neighborhood. Such is life in the big city. Before...
At Wolf Point, the The Caissons Go Rolling Along
The oh-so-familiar drone of the caisson drill has returned to Wolf Point with a vengeance. After the triumphant completion of Wolf Point West, River Point, and 150 North Riverside there was a temporary quieting in the construction-day cacophony that for the last two years has bounced off the skyscrapers lining the Chicago River. But that’s all past now that Pelli Clark Pelli’s Wolf Point East (313 West Wolf Point Plaza)...
River North’s Newest Public Park Opens at Exhibit on Superior
As downtown Chicago ads more and more residents, the ratio of people to greenspace grows increasingly lopsided. That’s part of the reason so many people were happy to see River thth’s newest public park open late last week. The park is on the west side of Exhibit on Superior (165 West Superior Street), the 35-story residential tower designed by the Loop’s bKL Architecture for Magellan Development and Mac Management....
Paw Prints and Crane Bits Signal Serious Work at Wolf Point East
Construction crews are wasting no time turning a dusty patch of River North into downtown Chicago’s newest enclave-in-the-sky. Bulldozers snapped into action just days after the initial construction permits for Wolf Point East were approved late last month. Now, two weeks into earth moving, the first segments of what looks like a crane have been delivered to the site in front of River North Point, the home of the Sun-Times and...
Hines Makes it Official: Wolf Point East is Underway
Just 12 hours after we were the first to tell you that construction crews were busy starting work on Wolf Point East, the skyscraper’s Houston developer, Hines, made it official with a press release (below). We were able to break the news for you thanks to Loop Spy Chris, who saw bulldozers, remembered our tip line, and did the right thing. Wolf Point East is the second of three skyscrapers planned for the knob of land that juts...
Construction Crews Begin Work on Wolf Point East
Less than a week after the city issued the first permits for Wolf Point East, work is already vividly underway. Loop Spy Chris tipped our line with a photo of excavators excavating, haulers hauling, and bulldozers bulldozing where soon a skyscraper sporting almost six hundred new homes will sprout along the Chicago River. You may remember that this 675-foot-tall tower was previously planned to be a mixed bag of office, retail, hotel,...
