Two residential construction projects in Chicago, 220 North Ada in Fulton Market and 400 Lake Shore in Streeterville, erected tower cranes on their respective job sites last week. The two new cranes mark the 10th and 11th to operate in the city in the month of May.
400 Lake Shore is a 72-story residential skyscraper being built by Related Midwest and their in-house construction team LR Contracting. The lakefront site, bordered on three sides by the Chicago River and Ogden Slip, takes over for what was supposed to be the Chicago Spire, and reuses the cofferdam that’s been sitting empty on the lot since 2008.
Raising the jib. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
At 220 N Ada Street, Clayco is the general contractor for this 29-story, 308-unit apartment tower from the development trifecta of Shapack Partners, CRG, and KMW Communities. Construction broke ground here in March of this year.
Tower crane at 220 North Ada. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Both 220 North Ada and 400 Lake Shore are designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. 400 Lake Shore anticipates an early 2027 opening, and for 220 North Ada, opening is expected early in 2026.
O’Hare T5 tower crane, dismantled last week. Via Building Up Chicago
At the same time these two tower cranes were being erected, one was being dismantled; the crane building O’Hare Airport’s new Terminal 5 parking garage. That project will deliver 1,700 parking stalls across a six-story structure when it opens later this year.
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Love the photos – tyvm
Just Max and you now ?
FYI I saw some crane activity on the south end of the Tribune property.
Isn’t the parking lot where the site sits still intact?
Looks like more projects are moving along. I get a feeling that developers were putting things on hold in the hopes of lower interest rates. Now that interest rates are likely to stay higher for longer, it looks like some projects are moving along now.
I hope this will translate to employability for highly trained and organized tradesmen.
Now it would be great if Nema 2 got built. Hopefully Tribune East is getting started!