The podium is poured, and concrete is setting for the seventh level of the 34-story hotel tower at Bally’s Casino at Erie Street and the Chicago River in River West. At the north end of the tower, setup of the construction hoist is in place as a housing to cover the loading dock is built out.
Steel continues to dominate the Bally’s Casino construction site in River West, as crews from the Chicago Community Builders Collective continue to progress. In the six weeks or so since our last visit, the iron framework has risen from a single level to the seventh story at the north end of the site.
The new construction permit issued by the City of Chicago on November 14 will plug the gap at 1631 South Trumbull Avenue in North Lawndale where a vintage greystone residence was demolished almost 20 years ago. That building, likely at least a century old at the time of its demise, was ordered torn down by the city in December 2007, with the lot sitting vacant since.
The fifth of six tower crane jumps was completed over the weekend at the 400 Lake Shore North Tower in Streeterville. Five more 20-foot sections were added to the rig Sunday after the Morrow Equipment Company crew spent their Saturday anchoring a new tie-in on the 56th floor.
A vacant lot on the southeast corner of North Kedvale and West Pierce Avenues in West Humboldt Park will be empty no longer, thanks to a building permit issued on November 14. The city is allowing the construction of a three-story plus basement, three-unit structure at 1511 North Kedvale Avenue, once the home of a modest frame church demolished some 15 years ago.
