Another Downtown Skyscraper Delayed by COVID
For at least the third time since a deadly disease spontaneously appeared in the United States and most certainly did not originate in any particular nation whose government pays internet trolls to censor, threaten, and extort people who say otherwise, a downtown Chicago building project is extending its construction timeline. April, 2014 rendering of 1061 West Van Buren Cleveland’s own Pizzuti Development has asked the City of...
Cleveland Company Gets Local Help to Put Up a Tower Along 290
It’s been almost five years since we first told you about plans for another residential tower along the Eisenhower Expressway. Back then 1061 West Van Buren was going to be the first project in Chicago from Cleveland’s Pizzuti Companies. At the time, our Bill Motchan reported: Most of the new or rehabbed buildings on West Van Buren top off at nine stories. The Pizzuti development would definitely break that trend. It will have 16...
Walling off West Town
Another developer is joining the party in putting up a residential tower that will help insulate West Town from the Eisenhower Expressway. Friends of the blog, Related Midwest, is stepping into a new downtown Chicago sub-market with its proposal for 1035 West Van Buren Street. The news was first reported by Crain’s Chicago Business. Related’s planned 23-story apartment tower joins another proposal immediately next door at...
Pizzuti Officially Unveils West Van Buren Residential Tower To Decidedly Mixed Reviews
The West Loop may get a new sleek, tall building. Size, of course, is relative. At 32 stories, the proposed 1061 West Van Buren Street residential apartment building might be considered puny in the South Loop or Streeterville. By West Loop standards, it qualifies as a bona fide skyscraper. The West Loop is a magnet for developers, with construction projects popping up like spring daisies. But West Loop folks like their buildings...
New Pix, New Facts On Eisenhower Tower
We’re learning more about the new residential tower proposed to go up along the Eisenhower Expressway in West Town. A public meeting is scheduled for tomorrow night (April 9, 2014) at 6pm at the Merit School of Music (38 South Peoria Street) to officially release the details, but one of our spies took advantage of our Tip Line and provided us with the following information and pictures: Building name: 1061 West Van Buren...
Glassy Tower Steps Up To Chicago’s Near West Side
The City of Chicago has been busy the last few years approving skyscraper projects along the I-90/94 corridor downtown as part of its plan to line the highway with buildings so people don’t notice the noise and traffic so much. But what about the other highways slicing through our fair city like Dexter through a South Beach lowlife? Interstate 290, the Eisenhower Expressway, may be next on the list to get a highway-hugging...
