Construction has passed the halfway mark for a new six-story Hampton Inn & Suites hotel at 710 S Seeley Avenue in the Illinois Medical District. The 135-key hotel is being developed by East Lake Management & Development as part of a larger scheme known as Gateway. The plans reside on the trapezoidal block bound by Harrison, Damen, Ogden, and Hoyne. A new inner driveway has been created under Seeley Avenue, hence the address name.
710 S Seeley Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
710 S Seeley Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
710 S Seeley Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
710 S Seeley Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
The first completed stage consists of two single-story retail buildings. The current construction also includes a nearly complete apartment building known as Cadence. Future stages include office buildings to the north end of the site.
710 S Seeley Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
Piekarz Associates designed the hotel with quadri-colored ACM paneling, red signage, and a motor court beneath a port au cochere.
710 S Seeley Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
710 S Seeley Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
710 S Seeley Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
The nearest bus service is Route 50, which is a one-minute walk northeast of Damen & Ogden. Other nearby buses include Routes 7, 12, 126, and 157. The closest CTA L trains are at Illinois Medical station, which is a seven-minute walk northeast. Pink Line service is available at Polk station via a nine-minute walk east.
710 S Seeley Avenue. Photo by Jack Crawford
710 S Seeley Avenue (foreground) and Cadence (background). Photo by Jack Crawford
This $18.8 million project, of which Burling Builders is the general contractor, is expected to complete by next year.
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Love it! Chicago needs a thousand more projects like this. Wish it would have been a little taller.
Lol, I didn’t write this comment.
Is there 2 ‘UnionMade’s?’
I think you’re being made fun of. I’m surprised he didn’t write: “it’s a travesty and an embarrassment that the home of Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan is building six-story buildings when we should be building Sears Towers on every block from Golf Rd to 159th Street and from i-294 to the lake! Chicago has become a dying city!!” Lol I’m just teasing you Union Made 😁
I’m more about good design than height but ya, that’s funny. Perhaps one day more Chicagoans will see the value to the built environment and other tangible benefits that 4 story buildings don’t provide. Or how mediocre and monotonous blue boxes are. What Chicago’s architectural standards have become is a ‘travesty’ indeed.
Unfortunate that something that looks like a box you’d find off of a suburban highway exit in Pennsylvania ended up in the middle of the Medical District. Great that there’s a hotel there, but if they really want the IMC to be a destination, they need to make it more livable for the people that work there with bars, walkable food, and more residences. A parking lot and a six-story dumpster like this ain’t it.
This looks great for Schaumburg.
I think you’re being made fun of. I’m surprised he didn’t write: “it’s a travesty and an embarrassment that the home of Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan is building six-story buildings when we should be building Sears Towers on every block from Golf Rd to 159th Street and from i-294 to the lake! Chicago has become a dying city!!” Lol I’m just teasing you Union Made 😁