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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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.
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.
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