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ChicagoDowntown / Loop

Randolph Tower, 188 W Randolph St, Loop

Randolph Tower Chicago

Randolph Tower, 188 W Randolph St, is nearing completion of its conversion from office to residential use, with occupancy expected in the first quarter of 2012. The 45-story Gothic Revival building, completed in 1929, has terra cotta ornamentation that increases in intensity as your eye travels up the building’s façade. ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 28, 2011
ChicagoDowntown / Loop

K2 at K Station, 365 N Halsted St, Fulton River District

K2 at K Station Chicago

Construction of K2 at K Station, a 496-unit 34-story luxury apartment tower at 365 N Halsted St in Chicago’s Fulton River District, began weeks before the official groundbreaking ceremony (video, right) on November 2, 2011. K2 is the fifth and final residential high-rise in the K Station development, joining Left ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 12, 2011
ChicagoDowntown / Loop

1225 Old Town, 1225 N Wells St, Old Town

1225 Old Town rendering

1225 Old Town broke ground in April of 2011. As of early November it was about two-thirds of the way toward topping out at 16 stories, and apparently on-track to welcome residential tenants in September of 2012 and commercial tenants a bit before that. The development, at 1225 N Wells ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 10, 2011
ChicagoDowntown / Loop

410 E Grand Ave, Streeterville

410 E Grand Ave rendering Chicago

Golub and Company has submitted a Planned Development proposal for a mixed-use project on a site fronting McClurg Ct between Grand Ave and Ohio St. There is currently no timetable for groundbreaking. Golub and Company is the developer and Solomon Cordwell Buenz the architect. The current plan calls for 490 ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 6, 2011
ChicagoDowntown / Loop

SoNo East, 840 W Blackhawk St, Near North Side

SoNo Chicago

According to Booth Hansen, the original architects, SoNo was planned as “a two phase, high density, transit related development anchoring the south end of Chicago’s Lincoln Park that has developed into a major retail corridor.” The first phase, at 860 W Blackhawk St in Chicago’s Near North Side neighborhood, was ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 5, 2011
ChicagoDowntown / Loop

500 North Lake Shore Drive, Streeterville

500 N Lake Shore Dr Chicago

Related Midwest began construction in September 2011 at 500 N Lake Shore Dr on a 45-story, 500-unit apartment tower slated for occupancy in May of 2013. The square-block site, bounded by Lake Shore Dr, Peshtigo Ct, Grand Ave and Illinois St, is one of the very few parcels available for ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 4, 2011
ChicagoDowntown / Loop

AMLI River North, 71 W Hubbard St, River North

AMLI River North Chicago

AMLI River North, 71 W Hubbard St in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, is slated to be a 50-story, 409-unit apartment tower with 262 parking spaces and 4,500 square feet of ground level retail. Groundbreaking for AMLI River North occurred in October 2011, and the building is expected to be open ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 1, 2011
ChicagoDowntown / Loop

360 W Hubbard St apartments, River North

360 W Hubbard amenities deck

The Habitat Company is building a new 43-story, 450-unit apartment tower in River North at 360 W Hubbard St, across from the East Bank Club. An adjacent 8-story garage will include 520 parking spaces, 394 for the residences and 126 for the East Bank Club. Habitat has applied for building ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 31, 2011
ChicagoDowntown / Loop

The Coast at Lakeshore East, 345 E Wacker Dr, New East Side

The Coast at Lakeshore East Chicago

Site work on the Coast at Lakeshore East, 345 E Wacker Dr, began in June of 2011. When it is completed in February 2013, the 49-story Coast will include 499 residential apartments, 18,000 square feet of retail space, 18,000 square feet of amenities and parking located below Wacker Drive. Pedestrian ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 30, 2011
ChicagoDowntown / Loop

1350 North Lake Shore Drive, Gold Coast

Oak Street Beach

From the 1880s until its demolition in 1950, 1350 N Lake Shore Dr was the site of the largest private residence in the city, designed by architects Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost for Bertha and Potter Palmer. Construction of the fabled Palmer Mansion, at a cost of more ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 20, 2011
ChicagoDowntown / Loop

Presidential Towers, 555 W Madison, West Loop

Presidential Towers, Chicago

In the mid-1980s, Chicagoans on their daily commute into the Loop were amazed at how quickly four new skyscrapers were rising out of the ground. When they were completed in 1986, the four Presidential Towers (“PT”) high-rises (of six originally planned) became and remain the tallest buildings west of the ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 6, 2011
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