Last fall F&F Realty of Skokie proposed a a new 514-unit apartment building and 10,000 square feet of retail space for the site of the Crowne Plaza parking lot at the southeast corner of Madison and Halsted streets in the West Loop. Today the Chicago Journal reported on another Skokie developer’s plans for the southwest corner of the same intersection.
The Taxman Corporation’s Gateway development would comprise a 312-foot tower with 228 rental units and 205 hotel rooms, 100,000 square feet of retail space, and 678 garage parking spaces. The Journal article focuses on the opposition the project already faces from a few West Loop residents who aren’t exactly thrilled about the tower’s height.
The Gateway (not to be confused with the mixed-use Gateway project recently proposed for Washington Park) is being designed by Antunovich Associates, architect for the recently completed Flair Tower apartments in River North. Antunovich’s Web site already features three images of the project, reposted above and below.
The Gateway and Crowne Plaza projects aren’t the only new apartment high-rises being planned for the far eastern side of the West Loop. In January the Sun-Times reported on a proposal by investors William Pacella, George Bonomo, and Shadow Mirkhaef for a 33-story, 276-unit tower at 519 S Clinton St
I’m confused. The southwest corner of Madison and Halsted is the old MB bank building – not the Crown Plaza parking lot. The Crown Plaza is on the southEAST corner.
Oh, I get it. The article states one of the buildings will be at the corner of Madison and Green – which makes it the Southwest corner, site of the old MB bank, not the Crown Plaza.
Sorry, Andrew, I typed southwest twice. As we’ve reported before, the Crowne lot is the southeast corner of the intersection; Gateway will be on the southwest corner of the intersection but will extend far enough west that the tower will be on the southwest side of Madison and Green.
Joe A – don’t you mean the southeast side of Madison and Green? Or does it cross the street?
Man, It’s south-something-or-other.