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All that remains of the circa-1910 Otis Building at 10 S LaSalle is four stories of its original façade, and it’s all you may have ever noticed of the 37-story tower that replaced it. I’d passed the building many times without ever looking up to see the 1986-vintage skyscraper behind the classic terra cotta and ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 4, 2013
Foundation work appeared to be nearly complete on the new Ravenswood Mariano’s Fresh Market when I stopped by last Saturday. The site is on the north side of Lawrence and is bounded on the east by the Metra tracks. The site of the Bucktown Mariano’s, pictured above, is at Webster and Ashland, just east of ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 18, 2013
We haven’t added Steve Fifield‘s site at 601-625 W Monroe in the West Loop to our list of new downtown apartment projects, because current plans call only for a 40-story office tower. The current plans are subject to change, according to Crain’s Chicago Real Estate Daily: “This is a city of skyscrapers,” Mr. Fifield said. ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 18, 2013
The Bond Companies has apparently made a major change in its plans for The Maxwell, a development at Clinton, Canal and Roosevelt. Earlier plans called for a mix of retail and residential on the 3.9 acre site. The residential component would have included 370 apartments above 200,000 square feet of retail. That plan faced several ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 3, 2012
If you think that the Clybourn Corridor already has enough retail outlets, you’d be lining up on a different side of that issue than some local landowners. CRM Properties Group has nearly completed clearing the site on the southwest corner of Weed and Fremont. This is one of four parcels totaling 110,000 square feet of ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 28, 2012
Back in the day you could count on some of Chicago’s best barbeque outside the Greater Little Rock Church at Armitage and Dayton in the DePaul – Sheffield neighborhood. The site is slated for development of a 3-story Walgreens, and demolition of the church was far along when I visited yesterday afternoon. The new store ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 20, 2012
An “impact development” is one that’s likely to spur substantial change in its immediate area. The Fulton Market neighborhood in the West Loop is an interesting, mixed-use area with only sparse residential development. The make-over of the 1923-vintage Fulton Market Cold Storage Building, which is currently in the demolition phase, will add a large number ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 14, 2012
Wolf Point is an iconic site at the junction of the North, South and Main branches of the Chicago River. A proposed three-tower residential and office development at Wolf Point has drawn a great deal of interest and will continue to do so as the project proceeds to final approvals and construction. The project’s size, ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 6, 2012
A month ago we noted that construction was slated to start this month on the new Pete’s Fresh Market at the southeast corner of Madison and Western. And start it has, as we saw during a fly-by two weeks ago. Back in March we recalled that five years earlier the immediate area had been the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 24, 2012
As you approach downtown Chicago from the air, or along the Eisenhower Expressway, one building is a clear, colorful standout. It’s the huge new West Loop Target, which is slated to open in October. The store, on a 4-acre site at Jackson and Aberdeen, will have nearly 400 parking spaces at ground level, bike racks, ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 13, 2012
It’s been 5 years to the day since we reported price reductions and a “developer closeout” at Logan View Condominiums, 3125 W Fullerton, in Logan Square. After glancing at the record of a 3-bedroom, 2-bath unit that sold for $388,000 in 2006 and resold last month for $200,000, I headed to the site yesterday for ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 31, 2012
Chicago’s new downtown apartment towers are rising toward their full height at a rapid pace – a floor every three days in some instances. Once these towers are topped out, however, another six months or more will be required to make them ready for occupancy. We recently learned, via Gizmodo, of a 30-story hotel in ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 5, 2012
For many Chicagoans there’s no piece of ground more sacred than the one that hosts their favorite hot dog stand. U Lucky Dawg, 6821 N Western Ave, closed not long after I took the above photo in July of 2008, and only several years after changing its name from Fluky’s. According to Crain’s Chicago Real ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 20, 2012
Five years ago today we mentioned a Sun-Times story suggesting that Fox & Obel might open a South Loop store at the northeast corner of Roosevelt and Wabash. We asked what a Fox & Obel opening would mean for the South Loop and commenters responded that it would be a positive development and “exactly what ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 5, 2012
We don’t normally range as far afield as New York for our posts, but it’s hard to resist meeting the ironworkers at One World Trade Center in New York, as the building nears its symbolic height of 1,776 feet. The architects from SOM describe the steel-frame building as “the strongest skyscraper in the world.” A ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 18, 2012
The Tribune and the Sun-Times reported on Ald. Proco Joe Moreno‘s proposal, which passed the City Council Zoning Committee, to allow a portion of commercial space to be used for residences. From the Sun-Times: Moreno predicted that “thousands” of professionals would take advantage of the change, filling scores of vacant storefronts and building the city’s ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 23, 2012
I’m frequently stunned by the credulity of Chicago’s major media. While Crain’s Chicago Business was reporting a “massive hotel, retail and entertainment project next to McCormick Place” last October, I supplied the following take on the developer: I can’t spend much time on Winners Development’s website without gagging on what strikes me as a mound ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 22, 2012
First Ward Alderman Proco Joe Moreno appears to be vying for the Brendan Reilly do-it-my-way award. From today’s email newsletter: The 1600 N. Ashland project (former Pizza Hut site) will be a showcase for mixed-use, transit-oriented development. They propose to have 11 stories, between 70 and 80 units for rent, with commercial space at the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 23, 2012
There are “glorious changes coming our way,” according to a video recently posted at YouTube on behalf of the Salvation Army’s Lincoln Park thrift store. Proposals for the redevelopment of the Salvation Army’s 4-acre site at 2258 N Clybourn recently passed zoning and Plan Commission hurdles. Demolition of parts of the existing facility is scheduled ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 6, 2012
In newspaper terminology, this is an evergreen story – one that recurs regularly. It’s had multiple variations over the decades, and the latest comes to us via David Roeder at the Sun-Times: The Kennedy family, partnering with a major development firm and an internationally renowned architect, is crafting plans to build on its Wolf Point ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 26, 2012
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