370 North Morgan scored another pair of permits this past Friday, July 25, allowing the installation of a construction hoist and permitting tie-ins for the second and third phases of the tower crane. The 494-unit Fulton Market apartment tower broke ground in June with the kickoff of caisson drilling.
Though construction work is still in the early stages, 370 North Morgan has amassed an impressive lineup of permits, including:
Full building permit issued on July 14
Excavation for grade beams issued on May 30
Passenger elevators issued on May 28
Caisson issued on May 23
Tower crane issued January 31
The only pending permit in the Chicago Data Portal is for stormwater management.
Skender and McHugh Concrete set the tower crane’s base on July 8th and 9th, then erected the full crane the following weekend. It rose as Chicago’s ninth current crane and our westernmost, but its reign as the newest crane ended with the erection of the Bally’s Casino Hotel rig last week.
Bally’s crane base in front, 370 North Morgan in the background. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Climbing down. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Meanwhile, work continues at and below street level:
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
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This one is going to have a HEAVY impact on the Fulton skyline. Another crane bringing trasnformation!
Chicago is booming. Keep building!
Sadly, Chicago is not booming.
The highrise boom that characterized the past 25 years is basically over. But hopefully things will start back up again in the next few years
Booming? When we had 50 plus cranes we were booming. We have barely 10 and article after article showing how little housing we are building for such a big metro. NYC is booming. Dallas is booming. Nashville is booming. Miami is booming. Seattle is booming. Toronto is booming.
Dallas and Nashville suck. Miami has to design around 10’ floods.
Seattle has greatly slowed like Chicago. Austin is still building… but they’re slowing. NYC and Toronto are the only powerhouses of North America besides the ever growing Mexico City.
The Sun Belt is having its moment, but the quality of urbanization is trash. They will get better as they evolve. It’s too early to give a proper judgement but with a skyline of almost nothing but 10 story podiums and virtually zero transit expansion, they are setting themselves up for disaster. Quality of life alone will be huge come mid 21st century.
Chicago is losing pace and the politics need to improve, but Prtizker is setting up the state in very positive ways. If the federal government was smart and didn’t have a vendetta against blue state cities, they could be taking strides off a rebounded economy. Instead, the worse kinda thing took office and urban areas are going to suffer. We’ll be lucky to maintain our queue of approved projects as they hold out for best financing. There’s probably more approved stuffed now than when we were building to the max. City council certainly isn’t holding most stuff back, it’s developers with cold feet keeping permits from being issued. But I’m sure city hall isn’t helping, considering CTU makes the calls.