All About E: The New 34-Story Skyscraper Coming to the South Loop
Remember that tip from South Loop Spy J. that found its way into our tip line last week about the next phase of Southbank starting to peek over the horizon? It turns out, it was spot on. And we can now tell you which new building is going up next. Southbank Building E highlighted in this rendering from Lendlease According to the mouthpiece for Lendlease, “The next phase is going to be along the river on the southern end of the...
South Loop’s Southbank Getting Southbankier
It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out that Australian builder Lendlease is thinking about phase two of Southbank. It’s already opened The Cooper, a residential building at 720 South Wells Street, and has plenty more land to fill. Rendering of The Cooper (Courtesy of Lendlease) But The Coop’ was flown two years ago, and we haven’t heard a peep out of this riverfront nest since. Until now. South Loop Spy...
The Cooper: Southbank’s First Tower Now Officially Open
The South Loop’s residential expansion continues with an official grand opening of The Cooper, Lendlease’s new apartment tower at 720 South Wells Street. The Cooper is the first new residential building going in at Southbank. Four more are coming, as Australia’s Lendlease transforms the former wasteland between Roosevelt Road and River City into a new enclave along the Chicago River. It’s like Lakeshore East,...
South Loop’s Southbank Development Gets Its First Residents
Southbank, the northern portion of what used to be the Riverline development south of Roosevelt Road, has its first people living in its first residential tower. People have started moving into The Cooper (720 South Wells Street), a 29-story building that is the first of five planned for this project. The Perkins+Will-designed building brings 452 new homes to the South Loop, in one of three new projects hugging the Chicago River....
Lendlease Rolls Out The Barrel for The Cooper at Southbank
We were going to make a bunch of silly puns about barrels of monkeys, or being over a barrel, or fish in a barrel, but we won’t. Except for that one in the headline about rolling out the barrel. That was clever. In case you don’t know, “cooper” is another word for someone who makes barrels for a living. And “The Cooper” is the name of a new residential building in the South Loop where you could...
Lendlease’s South Loop Project Has a Name: Southbank
After its split with CMK over the development of the Riverline project, Lendlease has come up with a name for its portion of the project on the east bank of the Chicago River: Southbank. Southbank is the portion of the development, designed by Perkins+Will, that runs from Harrison Street down to Polk. The portion from 9th Street on down to Roosevelt Road is being developed independently by CMK after the two decided to split...
