It’s Full Steam Ahead for a 1,011-Foot-Tall Gold Coast Tower
Just days after the City of Chicago gave its blessing to an enormous two-tower project across the street from Holy Name Cathedral, stuff is already happening. Site prep for One Chicago Square (Courtesy of Gold Coast Spy Jody) Gold Coast Spy Jody snapped the picture above, showing where One Chicago Square will start to rise, and that the old parish parking lot has already been half-scoured from the property. Word on the street is that...
1,011-Foot-Tall Skyscraper Ready To Start Across From Holy Name Cathedral
You know we live in interesting times when news of a 76-story skyscraper moving forward is the second biggest news of the week. That’s where we are now with One Chicago Square (740 North State Street). Rendering of One Chicago Square Crain’s Chicago Business reports that the developers of the project in the parking lot across the street from Holy Name Cathedral have gotten the money in order to begin construction. It comes...
One Small Hole Indicates The Coming of One Chicago Square
All great Chicago skyscrapers start with humble beginnings. And One Chicago Square has humbly begun in the parking lot of Holy Name Cathedral. Gold Coast Spy Tom sent in the photograph above showing soil sampling in the parking lot that will have a 1,045-foot-tall skyscraper in it by 2022. Even though soil sampling crews extract dirt from beneath the surface, we like to think of them as planting the seeds of a skyscraper. They...
Chicago’s Christmas Present? A 1,011+ Foot Tall Skyscraper
If you want to get the skyscraper nerd in your life a present, erecting the sixth-tallest building in Chicago isn’t a bad place to start. That’s the red ribbon box developers are giving the city, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. The publication reports that construction on One Chicago Square is expected to start in January 2019. This date is mentioned in a larger article about how Sterling Bay has joined JDL...
Alderman Stalls One Chicago Square Towers
Second Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins has asked that the $700 million One Chicago Square project be scotched from the agenda for the Chicago Plan Commission’s December 21st meeting. At that meeting, the commissioners could have approved the project, which would have sent it sailing through the rest of city council and on to the construction phase. Citing intense interest, and the sheer size of the project, which would build...
Holy Name Tower Gets a Name, Little Opposition
Two weeks ago we told you about a proposal to fill the surface parking lot across the street from Holy Name Cathedral with a shiny new dual-skyscraper project. Now we know a little more about it. About a dozen dozen people turned out for a public meeting about the $700 million complex, which is being called One Chicago Square (1 West Chicago Avenue). The people in attendance at the event hosted by 2nd Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins...
Plans Filed For Soaring Cathedral District Skyscraper, and Holy Name is it Big
For the third time in recent years, an underutilized Chicago Roman Catholic church parking lot will be replaced by a skyscraper. This time, it’s across the street from Holy Name Cathedral; and as would seem appropriate for the parking lot of the archbishop, this thing is huge. “Seventy-six stories!” is what the headlines have been crying all day since the plans were filed with the city for what we’re going to...
No. 9 Walton Getting Yet Another Height Boost — And More
It might be time for the construction barriers surrounding No.9 Walton (9 West Walton Street) to be re-painted with the slogan “Here we grow again!” For the third time since it was first approved by the city, the skyscraper is going to get taller. Back in 2006, when toner first fused to paper on this project, it was going to be a respectable addition to the corner of State and Walton, joining its little sister Walton on...
Very First Indication That the Holy Name Tower is On Its Way
We’ve been waiting for years for Holy Name Parish to do something tall and skyscraper-like with the surface parking lot it maintains across the street from its cathedral at 735 North State Street. We thought it was most likely to come a few years ago when the cathedral suffered a series of unfortunate water and fire incidents with its roof. But it wasn’t until just this past April that Crain’s Chicago Business...
Holy Name Property Finally In Play
We’ve been telling you for years that one of the hottest pieces of property in the city — one just begging to be developed — is the parking lot across the street from Holy Name Cathedral. And with churches across Chicago unloading real estate left and right, it was only a matter of time before Holy Name Parish followed the lead of Old Saint Pat’s in the West Loop and Assumption Parish in River North and turned its parking...
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