McDonald’s Park isn’t the only job site in town with a shiny new yellow Liebherr tower crane; there is now a 420 EC-H doing the heavy lifting for the parking garage at The 1901 Project, too. The crane’s base was planted in the Neat West Side ground back in July. We can’t say exactly when the rest of it was erected, but it’s been there long enough to set some heavy ironwork over the below-ground loading dock off Damen Avenue.
Updated renderings have been revealed and additional permits have been pulled for the first phase of the massive 1901 Project around the United Center. Led by the owning families of the arena and both the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks, the multi-phase development will slowly replace all of the arena’s surrounding surface parking lots, which rarely reach capacity.
With the issuance of a new construction permit on September 18, developer 4Corners LLC can begin erecting a residential project at 1455 West Fillmore Street on the Near West Side. City Council approved the five-story, 50-unit building back in October 2025, and an application to build was filed for on February 25 of this year. It had a 205-day wait in the data portal before coming through.
The tower crane has been planted for construction of the first phase of The 1901 Project on the Near West Side. The west parking facility that McHugh (Construction) and McHugh (Concrete) are building now is the first structure of the megadevelopment from Bulls and Blackhawks ownership. They got permission to begin work in March when the caisson permit was issued; those were well underway when they broke ground on the development in June.
Initial details have been revealed for a new large-scale development centered around local incubator mHUB in the Near West Side. The non-profit incubator recently completed its move to the iconic clock-tower building at 240 North Ashland Avenue in the West Loop, significantly increasing its footprint and reach within an existing industrial zone.
