Near West Side Residential Building Tops Off
People wondering how tall the new condominium building at 1400 West Monroe Street will get no longer have to wonder. As they say in Minnesota, “That’s all the further she goes.” 1400 West Monroe under construction in March, 2021. (Courtesy of JK Equities.) 1400 Monroe topped off (out/off, whatever) recently. The building, designed by Booth Hansen, is expected to be fully complete by the time the leaves on the...
Proposed Rush Street Building Includes Batman-Style Parking
The on-again, off-again redevelopment of the east side of Rush Street at Viagra Triangle is on again, with a revised plan for 1045 North Rush Street. That’s the two retail spaces next to Carmine’s restaurant, where the Alfredo sauce is so good it turns back into a brick of cheese if you put the leftovers in your refrigerator overnight. February, 2021 rendering of 1045 North Rush We last told you about plans for this space...
Lincoln Park Church Wants to Add Mid-Rise Residential Building
In Chicago, church-to-residence conversions are as common as Mexican restaurants on Check, Please!. It’s getting so that you can’t swing a censer without knocking out a stained glass living room feature window. The latest conjunction of church and sleep is proposed at the Second Church of Christ, Scientist in Chicago’s Park West neighborhood. October 2020 drawing of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist residential building...
Video: Construction at 1400 West Monroe
Critics of the internet say there’s more to life than cat videos. And they’re right. There are also construction videos. Recently the people putting up 1400 Monroe sent over a video showing how far construction has progressed on the Near West Side residential building. Construction, led by Summit Design + Build, started this past June, and is expected to run into next Summer. When complete, the JK Equities project will bring 42...
Construction Underway on New Near West Residential Block
It’s “Play ball!” out at 1400 West Monroe Street. That’s where construction crews are taking a swing at a new 42-unit condo building with “1400 Monroe” stitched on its jersey. May 2020 rendering of 1400 Monroe (Courtesy of JK Equities) JK Equities says its seven-story building, designed by Booth Hansen, is already 40%+ sold. Prices run from New York Yankees relief pitcher Jonathan Holder, all the...
Revised Wilson Theater Plan in Uptown Slashes Height, Homes
A revised plan to redevelop the old Wilson Avenue Theater in Uptown drastically reduces the height of the accompanying residential building, and the number of homes inside. It’s been almost four years since we told you about the last plan to hit City Hall. Back then, the parking lot next door to the theater at 1038 West Wilson Avenue was going to be replaced by a 107-foot-tall residential high rise with 197 new residences. The...
Banking on a Lake View in Chicago’s Gold Coast
If you’ve been using your Independence Day week off to get in a bit of cycling along Chicago’s lakefront path, you might have wondered about the low-rise building going up on the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Banks Street. What you saw is 61 Banks Street (61 East Bank Street), a hyperluxe apartment building designed by the West Loop’s Booth Hansen for Draper and Kramer. Joe Zekas over at YoChicago! flew by in Air...
New Downtown Townhomes Look Pretty Snazzy
Remember those townhouses we told you about back in 2015 that were going to fill in the hole at the corner of Clark and Chestnut? If you haven’t been by to gape recently, they look pretty darned snazzy. Of course, we’re big skyscraper fans. But you can’t see the skyscrapers if there’s nothing but skyscrapers to see. Mixing up the land use pattern creates nice view corridors, and this cluster of high-rent,...
The Last Empty Lakeshore Lot in Downtown Chicago Gets Filled In
The official groundbreaking has been marked for 61 Banks Street, a new residential mid-rise that will rise midly on the corner of East Banks Street and North Lakeshore Drive in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. This was the only open, developable land along the lakefront between the Chicago River and Diversey Harbor. The new apartment block is a project of Draper and Kramer, and designed by Booth Hansen in the West Loop. It...
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...
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