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Greektown Welcomes New Italian Neighbor
From the “Gee, that was fast” file — The Mariano’s supermarket in Greektown is now open at 40 South Halsted. It’s the second grocery store to open in the area in the last year, putting additional...
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K2 OK, Becomes Chicago’s First New Apartment Tower of 2013
K2 is a 496-unit luxury apartment building in Chicago’s River West neighborhood. It is the fifth and final building in the 2,145-unit K Station development. If there’s a race to be the first new...
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Smaller Greektown Tower Still Unpopular, Gateway II Faces a Murky Future
Gateway Phase II original hotel tower rendering and current residential tower proposal An overflow crowd of more than one hundred people, most of them West Loop residents, met last night (February...
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K2 Open and Ready for Chicago’s New Generation of Renters
Just in time for apartment-hunting weather, another shiny new Chicago apartment tower is now open for business. K2 (365 North Halsted Street) is the final piece of the K Station development in the...
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[Interactive] Circle Interchange Reconstruction Faces Little Opposition From...
Circle Interchange before and after. Images from IDOT. Arrangement by Chicago Architecture Blog. The Chicago Blackhawks are the best professional hockey team in America. The Circle Interchange – a...
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Pan Finds a New Home – Construction Underway on Greektown’s Newest Skyscraper
Arkadia drawing courtesy of FitzGerald Associates. Three days ago, the City of Chicago issued building permits, and site prep is underway, for the latest residential tower to buffer Greektown from...
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Inside The New Habitat on Hubbard
Drawing of Hubbard Place, courtesy of The Habitat Company. If you go anywhere near River North lately, you can’t help but notice the neighborhood’s newest skyscraper, Hubbard Place (360 East Hubbard...
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Latest Greektown Skyscraper Cut Down Again, Residents Finally Say Opa!
Drawing of Gateway Phase II The West Loop’s Gateway Phase II residential development (9 South Green Street) is finally moving ahead. Tuesday night, 130 residents gathered at the Merit School of Music...
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Status Update: Not Playing Games at Arkadia
To paraphrase a favorite fictional Chicagoan, Ferris, “Chicago construction moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” That’s the case with Arkadia,...
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Plan Commission Approves Controversial Bridgeport Heliport
Ten years after the last non-hospital downtown Chicago helipad was demolished to make way for a skyscraper, the Chicago Plan Commission has unanimously approved the construction of a new heliport in...
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Fifield Companies Celebrate A Bridge From K2 To Downtown
Disneyworld is purported to be the happiest place on earth, but for number two on the list I’d like to nominate the West Loop apartment building K2 (365 North Halsted Street). On its one-year...
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Here We Grow Again! Big Curving Tower Coming to Halsted Corridor
Holy curve, Batman! Now, was that so hard? How hot is the downtown Chicago residential market? So hot it could have a physicist explain it on the television show Nova. The P.B.S. version, not the...
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Status Update: Greektown’s Newest Column
It used to take a pretty hearty squint at Greektown to envision the city’s plans to line the east side of Halsted Street with skyscrapers to protect this treasured strip of shops and restaurants from...
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Status Update: Stadia Arkadia
Everybody loves SkyBridge, the pioneering slightly deconstructionist residential tower recently featured in an episode of HGTV’s House Hunters program. If Greektown didn’t have so many Greek icons,...
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Status Update: What’s New at New City
The latest retail development in Chicago’s hot hot hot Clybourn Corridor district is taking shape. New City is a $260 million project from Structured Development and Bucksbaum Retail Properties at...
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Status Update: Halsted South of Armitage
The long-vacant lot on the east side of North Halsted Street just south of Armitage Avenue is now under construction. The former tbree-story building at 1927 North Halsted was demolished in 2005, and...
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Status Update: The Curve on the Kennedy
Insert tower crane here It was with a great sigh of relief that architecture enthusiasts greeted the design of 171 North Halsted Street when it was presented to the public just about a year ago. Well,...
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Status Update: 171 North Halsted Begins Blocking View of Cool “Breakout” Wall
171 North Halsted construction, as seen from the Morgan Street Green Line platform The new, wonderfully-curved residential tower at Lake Street and North Halsted is taking shape in West Town. We zipped...
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Curve on the Kennedy Now Visibly Curvy
A curvy 171 North Halsted What we at the Chicago Architecture Blog have taken to calling The Curve on the Kennedy (171 North Halsted Street) might conjure up nightmares for Chicago drivers. What...
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Introducing 352 North Union Avenue
Containers sit on the proposed site. Some “container parks” are cool. This is not one of those. Tuesday evening, interested residents of Chicago’s west side were ushered into the basement of Old St....
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