![]() One of my favorite proposals in the country that didn't happen. Michigan Avenue is in the process of being transformed into the 212-room Hotel Julian. Maybe make a 1600-1700' version, carve an wide rectangular opening around the 1500' mark, add an observation deck with restaurant, make it mixed used, and call it the CWFC. Meanwhile, the old Atlantic Bank Building at 168 N. This so-called ‘Millennium Mile’ has already seen the addition of the LondonHouse Hotel and a 41-story apartment tower known as Mila. Over the weekend, tireless development scout SpyGuy at SkyscraperPage, dropped some new knowledge on us regarding Hartshorne Plunkard Architectures design for the residential high-rise at Halsted. ![]() Things are now changing thanks to increased foot traffic driven by Millennium Park. ![]() Historically, the stretch of Michigan Avenue immediately south of the Chicago River received little attention compared to its famous Magnificent Mile neighbor. Phase One (1000 feet, 92 floors): Work to redevelop old Chicago Post Office could start in September. Michigan project with Chinese-owned Wanxiang Estate Group serving as equity partner. More recently, the Chicago Tribune reported that Sterling Bay would team up with Chicago’s Magellan Development for the 300 N. The firm’s Managing Principal Andy Gloor confirmed last fall that a residential high-rise was indeed planned for the site. Michigan Avenue was purchased by prominent Chicago developer Sterling Bay back in 2013. The distressed four-story building at 300 N. Chicago-based design firm bKL Architecture is rumored to be involved with the project after a preliminary model of the tower was spotted in its Lakeshore East office. But now thanks to a handful of images posted on the development monitoring forum at, we have a decent-albeit unconfirmed-idea of what could rise on this underutilized downtown site.Īccording to the online message board, the glassy tower would top out at 475 feet and includes a multi-story flagship retail space above 30 below grade parking spaces. I know they declared bankruptcy a while back but is the building still being used by them at all or by anyone.literally saw no one inside.While it’s understood that a high-rise apartment tower is quietly in the works to replace the low-rise building at the northwest corner of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue and Wacker Place, the design of the long-rumored building has remained elusive. I was walking east across the river at Randolph the other evening around 6ish and it appeared no one was inside general growth at all. I don't know General Growth has to be one of the more underutilized and ugly buildings on is an fugly embarrassment. Do you know if any development on the southern side of the lot can be as high as that. There’s a big blank wall from the NBC Tower on the southern side of that lot. That's why the new tower is proposed to the north part of the site. Although it'll probably be the 2020s++ before we again see any Wacker towers getting demolished for bigger things (100 or 150 South may be earlier candidates, not to mention GGP). The entire vacant lot, but there's a view corridor that protects the view of Tribune Tower down Ogden Slip. Separately, I am still hoping 101 Wacker eventually gets torn down and replaced with a marquee skyscraper, which will also be somewhat harder due to 130 Franklin. It's like the Crain's article from a couple weeks ago about Hines pulling the trigger on doing River Point on spec - coming out of a recession, the first mover has a big advantage, and the last mover gets hosed. But like someone else said, this is going to be one of the tallest clusters in the world. Had the Crowns waited, they would be the ones with the tougher sell. Originally Posted by spyguy Of course add Aqua, 'Aqua II,' and Mandarin Oriental and that might change a little. There is kind of a chess move aspect to this, because if/when this is built, it will become a little harder for the owners of the property to the N to build and market a tall Class A tower, as it would have no southern views to offer.
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