Chicago has eight working tower cranes across the city as the month of June begins. They’re located as far south as the 6600-block of S Dr Martin Luther King Drive in Woodlawn, but barely reach north of the Chicago River, with the furthest northern crane working in the 400-block of N Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive.
Construction has topped out on the shell of a three-story, six-unit condominium building at 4337 N Richmond Street in Irving Park. This residential project sits on a large multi-lot space created by a fire in February 2022 that destroyed multiple buildings, including the home of Twisted Hippo Brewing and Ultimate Ninjas gym.
Metal cladding and glass curtain wall continue their progress at Hyde Park Labs, Phase II of the Harper Court development project in Hyde Park. The metal-and-glass cladding, which shrouds the parking levels of the 13-story building, is mostly complete. The glazing has begun above those parking floors, with work happening now on the second level of glass.
At 438 W St. James Place in Lincoln Park, The Saint James is beginning to take shape on a quiet residential side street. Situated less than a block from Lincoln Park’s North Pond, this five-story, four-unit condominium building will offer three 3,810-square-foot, five-bedroom condos, and one 4,215-square-foot, five-bedroom penthouse.
The concrete core is rising from the foundation at the University of Chicago’s state-of-the-art Cancer Center on its Hyde Park campus. The University and general contractor Turner Construction received a foundation permit on December 12 of last year. The “core and shell” permit issued May 9 of this year authorized them to build the core seen in the photos, which will rise nine stories in total, including one below grade.
