The 411 on 601 West Randolph in the West Loop
Four months ago, an alert reader noticed some people poking around at 609 West Randolph Street. He told us. We told you. Then last month, the project became official, as 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly started talking about a new development for the corner of Randolph and Jefferson in the West Loop. Now, paperwork has been filed with the city to get this office building built. Rendering of 601 west Randolph (Va the Office of...
There BMO Cranes in the West Loop This Week
The West Loop’s newest skyscraper is getting its crane on. The parts for a new tower crane were delivered to 320 South Canal Street earlier this week to help put together the BMO Tower — a 51-story office building designed by Goettsch Partners for Convexity Properties and Riverside Investment and Development. YoChicago! delivered these photographs of the badass Erector Set to our tip line. August 2020 construction of the BMO...
You Called It: New Office Building Coming to the West Loop
Back in May of this year, we relayed to you a photograph that West Loop Spy Kurt jammed into our tip line showing soil sampling rigs tasting the dirt beneath 609 West Randolph Street. Usually if someone is paying for that kind of work, there’s a reason; and now we know the reason: a 15-story office building Rendering of 609 west Randolph (Va the Office of Alderman Brendan Reilly) 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly was the...
Deco Like a Gekko: Old Chicago Post Office Gets an Athletic Green Lid
If you watched Star Trek after Svengoolie on channel 26 Saturday night, you learned that jealousy is a terrible thing. But jealousy is also what makes the real estate world go ’round. Your cousin gets a two-flat in Ravenswood, you get a four-flat in Lincoln Park. Your neighbor puts a trampoline in his backyard, you put in a pool. The dot-com wannabe across town gets its own food truck, your dot-com wannabe puts in a food court...
BMO Tower Starts to Rise in the West Loop
Commuters returning to Chicago from the suburbs after The Great Pause will hear some familiar sounds as they emerge from Union Station. The scraping of steel against stone. The squealing of metal tracked vehicles. The occasional Very Loud Bang™ echoing through the canyons of the West Loop. All these noises and more are on offer right next to the train station, at 320 South Canal Street. BMO Tower under construction (June 2020....
Old Chicago Post Office to Get Unexpected Riverwalk Segment
One of the nation’s largest redevelopment projects is chugging away in Chicago’s West Loop. For the last year, the once-abandoned, century-old Old Chicago Main Post Office building has been filling up with office tenants from PepsiCo to Uber to Ferrara Candy Company. Now the tenants of what is currently branded The Post Office will get a little bonus green space. The redevelopers of this building, 601W Companies, have...
Signs of Skyscrapers Future in the West Loop
If you spent your time in quarantine thinking that the West Loop could use another skyscraper, there’s a chance you may get your wish. Something happening at 609ish West Randolph (Courtesy of West Loop Spy Kurt) West Loop Spy Kurt slotted the photograph above into our tip line recently. It shows some soil sampling sommeliers slurping select specimens from beneath the bitumen at 609ish West Randolph Street. Until recently, that...
West Loop Upgrading From Walmart To Porsche
Not too many years ago, there used to be a Walmart Neighborhood Market in the West Loop. It was on the corner of Jefferson and Monroe, attached to Presidential Towers. The Walmart Neighborhood Market at Presidential Towers in 2011 When we lived at the Towers, we used the mini grocery store for its convenience. And with its secret residents-only entrance, we were able to get the full Walmart experience by buy cat food and milk...
BMO Tower Construction Update
If your daily commute used to take you through Union Station, you might wonder what’s going on with the BMO Tower under construction across the street. Well, wonder no more my home-bound friend. We’ve got your virtual back. BMO Tower construction in April 2020 (Courtesy of YoChicago!) YoChicago! sent in the photograph above showing construction progress on the skyscraper at 320 South Canal Street. OK, so there’s...
B-Hold the B-Musing B-MO Tower B-Coming B-Yootiful
If Union Station seems a little noisier than usual these days, it’s not just because the 6:30 Metra from Downers Grove is crammed with armchair pitching coaches who just won’t shut up about the White Sox chances this season. It’s because of the massive BMO Tower going up across the street. BMO Tower under construction in March 2020 (Courtesy of Loop Spy Jody) Loop Spy Jody cracked a pre-season bat sending the...
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