I’ve always been impressed with how quickly the Central Station high-rises are constructed. Take The Enterprise Companies‘ Museum Park Place II, for example. The 29-story high-rise at 1901 S Calumet Ave has been out of the ground since the summer, and already it looks like it’s almost ready to be topped off.
Last month, Sun-Times business reporter David Roeder reported that residents of the first Museum Park Place high-rise at 1841 S Calumet Ave were experiencing serious problems with water leakage in the roof, walls and basement of that building. While reading that, I couldn’t help but wonder if there might be a correlation between the speed with which these buildings are built and the quality of construction.
Residents of that building “took their complaints to the street, picketing in front of Enterprise’s condo sales center,” Roeder wrote. Not the sort of behavior you expect to see from luxury condo buyers in the South Loop.
The building at 1901 S Calumet Ave will be a mirror image of the first Museum Park Place high-rise, with the same red cross-hatch pattern across the front. Museum Park Place II will have 276 one- to three-bedroom condos that are priced from the $250s to the $600s. At last check, a little more than half of the homes in the building had been sold.
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