Condominium sales are closer to launching as the sales center for 1325 West Fulton rounds into shape in the Fulton Market District. Sulo Development is building the sales center at the corner of Ada and Fulton Streets to kickstart sales for their three-tower project. A successful sales campaign will allow construction of the first tower to begin on the east end of the site in 2026. The single-story temporary structure will then be demolished and replaced by the second and third towers.
Photo by Daniel Schell
Main entrance facing Ada Street. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
The sales center occupies the southeast corner of Ada and Fulton. Photo by Daniel Schell
ParkFowler Plus is the architect of record, and along with Kohn Pedersen Fox is designing the condo towers. Phase One is planned as a 29-story building holding 83 units and 95 parking spaces. A 2026 groundbreaking would result in a 2028 opening, and then the other two towers adding 136 more units.
Unit breakdown of 1325 West Fulton by KPF and ParkFowler Plus
Rendering of 1325 West Fulton’s first tower by KPF and ParkFowler Plus
Phasing plan of 1325 West Fulton by KPF and ParkFowler Plus. The sales center is being built where Phase III will rise
The sales center was permitted in April with McHugh Construction as the general contractor. It uses the address of 231 North Ada Street, and will include 10 parking spaces for staff and perspective condo shoppers. Sulo plans to begin sales this fall.
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
The sales center is briefly visible from passing Green and Pink Line trains. Photo by Daniel Schell
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Ian will return on August 5.
We complain over the monotonous architecture around the city so well done to Sulo for hiring KPF and allowing them to do their thing. This is in line with the luxury towers in NY. I suppose there’s not a local firm that would have designed anything close to this so Sulo did their homework, held themselves to high standards and that should be commended.
There are absolutely local firms that could do this type of work.
Studio Gang comes to mind, and they have a track record that shows that they can handle tall, and supertall, buildings. I’d love to see what Ross Barney or John Ronan could do. And SOM – although your name indicates you don’t like SOM’s modernist roots, they’ve moved a long way past the glass box over the last 50 years.
I don’t mind modernist architecture as a concept. It’s just that Chicago has gone so far in that direction that classically inspired buildings like this may come along only a couple times in a generation.
Local talent isn’t really pushing out traditional leaning designs other than Lucien Lagrane. I’m sure Gang is more than capable of designing something even superior to this if her aim was to recreate neo-classical but I think she’s too expressive and innovative to ever use this type of dialogue.
Why keep her grounded? After her big reveal in Denver, I absolutely want to see her continuously pushing the boundaries of what if.
Our skyline wouldn’t be the same without Pappagorge, but the crowds have a mixed reaction to him. I welcome the funky post-modern Parisian additions. Perkins and Will had its run in the early 2000s, but River Line has left me with immense disappointment, even if the trends were getting cliché, I still would’ve preferred them to VE’d orridanry. SOM is clean and sophisticated, but they only do tall. Chicago doesn’t have the money to do a tall-classic yet modernist. If this tower makes it, color me impressed. I figured One Bennet Park was going to be the last for a while. So happy to see a resurgence in masorny and organic materials. I so want to see some of NYC sprinkled on Chicago.
Love it or hate it, the Obama Library is masonry taken to the extreme. Though mosoleum-esque, you can’t deny the impact won’t be heavy. I just wish we had the Lucas Museum… forever salty I will be.
I don’t think Gang should be limited and that’s why I said she’d never design a building like this. She’s far too creative to find inspiration in classical language and restrict her palette and that’s fine.
For those that do revive the past, KPF does stunning work in the style so I’m grateful that Sulo stepped up to deliver such an exquisite example of their abilities. We’re lucky to get this type of quality as in my opinion it could’ve been plucked from the Upper East Side.
520 5th Ave. is my favorite skyscraper of the many New York has added over the last 20 years and 64 University Place is another intriguing mix of historic/contemporary. Stern is a master of his craft and One Bennet Park is beautiful but KPF is a bit more whimsical than rigid and I appreciate that.
It seems as if Chicago has lost the starchitect type designers as almost everyone is pumping out copies of a copy of a copy following in Mies footsteps with some rare exceptions.
Why does Chicago lack in height with most of their new high rise buildings. Oh wait is it because the city is bankrupt and can’t find anyone rich enough to fund for such tall buildings?
What reason is there to build a super tall? Like seriously, look at the vacancy rates of commercial towers. They are building what is needed – and that’s mixed use and residential high rises. And barely much of those because we have a ton of now unused towers that need to be converted to mixed use or residential with a changing city core environment. This is not unique to Chicago. Do your homework before you comment, and maybe be a local.
There’s also the matter of community groups composed of people who live in high rises who recognize that all h high rises constructed after the one they live in are guaranteed to destroy the neighborhood and must be stopped. So they give money to their aldercreature, and scare him or her into thinking they control enough voters to boot ’em. Then they demand a project be stopped, and when they’re told that won’t fly, they demand a few stories be taken off the top of th building. To them, a 34 story building in place of a 46 story building is a huge win.
And that’s why we have so many stumpy buildings.
The worst comment of the year. Aldermen and residents keep forcing high-rises to downsize. Aldermen and Alderwomen in Chicago have more power than any big city Councilmen.
Not everything needs to be a skyscraper. The mid-high rise density we have is fine because it’s all over the city. We just need to keep building it, especially near transit.
In all of these construction in Fulton how many are federal dollars allocated for affordable units in high Rise ?
Nnoooooo Ian come back come back stay safe, Daniel will hold the fort down good journey