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A week rarely goes by without my visiting at least one Chicago rooftop. Yesterday I rode the construction elevator to the top of K2 at K Station, a 496-unit, 34-story apartment tower in the Fulton River District that’s scheduled for occupancy in April of next year. The views were spectacular in every direction despite hazy ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 25, 2012
The views from K2 at K Station are great, but they don’t compare with the views from high above the Trump Tower. Ken Derry operated one of the tower cranes at Trump Tower for McHugh Construction, and has recently taken over the crane at K2 during its disassembly. I’ll be posting some photos tomorrow that ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 24, 2012
Almost a year to the day after breaking ground on K2 at K Station, Fifield Companies hosted a topping-off party to celebrate the building’s reaching its full 34-story height. According to developers Steve and Randy Fifield, the 496-unit apartment tower is ahead of schedule and under budget, and will offer an even higher level of ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 8, 2012
Late last week four 20-foot sections were added to the tower crane at K2 at K Station, bringing it to its final height and enabling construction to advance from the 26th to its topping out at the 34th floor. Window installation, drywalling and spraying of popcorn ceilings is proceeding on the lower floors. The concrete ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on August 7, 2012
You’ll find an American flag unfurled somewhere at nearly every major construction site. The Star Spangled Banner at K2 at K Station “in full glory reflected now shines in the stream” rather than being “dimly seen through the mists of the deep.” Old Glory’s base, not by accident, is on the 13th floor of the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 30, 2012
In a deceptively simple operation a “jacking crane” frames part of a tower crane and lifts the crane’s cab and jibs twenty feet, opening a hole for the addition of another 20-foot section to the crane. What’s simple to describe is, of course, the result of technological wizardry and precision skills. Marie Spear, one of ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 18, 2012
When I visited K2 at K Station earlier today approximately 150 workers from various trades were busy assembling plumbing fittings, installing electrical equipment and windows, assembling and disassembling forms, pouring and finishing concrete – and engaged in a variety of other activities on the 496-unit 34-story apartment tower. In the above photo you can see ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on May 23, 2012
The Coast, 345 E Wacker Dr, is about two-thirds of the way toward its ultimate 49-story height. It appears to be on track to meet its targeted completion date of February 2013. When it’s complete, The Coast will include 499 apartments, 18,000 square feet of retail space, 18,000 square feet of amenities, and parking below ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on May 23, 2012
Construction of the 43-story, 450-unit apartment tower at 360 West Hubbard in Chicago’s River North neighborhood actually began two months ago. By the time of yesterday’s official groundbreaking ceremony all of the caisson-drilling and site prep work was complete, and the tower will soon begin rising out of the ground. Groundbreaking ceremonies aren’t the most ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 23, 2012
Jonathan Jackson is a Technical Engineer with Plumbers Local 130 and a licensed land surveyor. When I stopped to chat with him at K2 at K Station, a 34-story apartment tower under construction in the Fulton River District, he was checking to ensure that nothing outside of the site was moving. Moving? As Jonathan explains ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 31, 2012
Our unusually mild weather is contributing to rapid progress on the construction of K2, K2 at K Station, a 496-unit, 34-story rental high-rise in Chicago’s Fulton River District. Click the panoramic view, above, for a closer look at the activity on the site just after 8 this morning. You can see more of our start-to-finish ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 25, 2012
Here’s the text of a news release received this morning from The Habitat Company: The Habitat Company announced the start of construction of a 43-story, 450-unit luxury high rise in Chicago in a joint venture with Multi-Employer Property Trust (MEPT) and a major institutional investor. This luxury multifamily community will be located at 360 W. ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 12, 2012
Our unusually warm winter weather is facilitating rapid progress at the K2 at K Station construction site. You can see more coverage of the 34-story apartment tower underway in Chicago’s Fulton River District at our building profile page and our YouTube playlist.
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 10, 2012
The focus of work this week at K2 at K Station is completing site excavation and forming and pouring the basement walls of this new high-rise apartment building. Later in the week the slab for the elevators will be poured and the first cement finisher will be on the job. Twenty finishers will be on ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 14, 2011
We’ve been diligently following construction progress at K2 at K Station, a new rental high-rise, for the past several weeks. You can see video of some of that progress at YouTube. K2 at K Station During the first three days of last week the primary focus was on site excavation. The picture above shows you ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 10, 2011
I spent some time yesterday chatting with Marie, an 18-year veteran crane operator, who will be half of the team running the tower crane at K2 at K Station, a new 34-story apartment high-rise under construction in the Fulton River District. I also met Mike Regal from Morrow Crane, a worldwide operation that rents 550 ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 2, 2011
A well-run high-rise construction site is an amazing scene, buzzing with a variety of activities, with massive amounts of material arriving constantly and quickly being put in place. McHugh Construction, the general contractor for K2 at K Station, is one of the nation’s most experienced contractors. I spent several hours at the K2 site today, ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 1, 2011
The new apartment tower at K2 at K Station is rolling along. McHugh Construction completed the drilling of 120 80-foot deep caissons in just 24 days, and has begun erecting a tower crane on the site. McHugh is the general contractor for the development. The crane will reach its targeted 238-foot height by the end ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 28, 2011
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 Bank (2006), Echelon (2008) and ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 12, 2011
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 permits under Chicago’s Green Permit ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 31, 2011
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