Goodness, when’s the last time anyone announced a new West Loop development? Gazette Chicago reports today that Skokie-based F&F Realty plans to build a 514-unit apartment building with “hotel-style amenities” and 10,000 square feet of retail space at the site of the Crowne Plaza hotel parking lot at the intersection of Madison and Halsted streets.
FitzGerald Associates has been tapped to design the project, which will contain a mix of studios and one- and two-bedroom apartments. The $100 million project does not have funding and will need about 18 months to go through the permitting process, followed by another two to three years of construction, the story says.
I love me some “hotel-style” amenities!!!!
So the same architect that designed an ugly building on Halsted [740 Fulton] will now be designing a building twice as large on Halsted? Hopefully it will not be twice as ugly, although the balconies are huge and I give props for that.
I don’t think we will see this building anytime soon. Does anyone in the West Loop, especially the community organizations, want another building as tall as Skybridge next to Skybridge?
Katherine,
Just noting that your LinkedIn profile says you once worked for FitzGerald. Sour grapes?
Ha! Sour grapes or not she has a point about 740 Fulton! 🙂