The Chicago Committee on Zoning has approved the massive redevelopment of the United Center parking lots known as The 1901 Project in the Near West Side. The approval comes around a month after the Plan Commission also gave the mega development the green light. This now leaves City Council as the final approval needed.
Construction is ongoing for a second-floor addition to the offices of the Laborers’ Local 1001 standalone building at 323 South Ashland Avenue on the Near West Side. The long, narrow, single-story building received a number of new permits last spring and summer. Vari Architects designed the new addition, with Harbor Country Development of Burr Ridge handling general contractor duties.
The Chicago Plan Commission has approved the massive redevelopment of the United Center parking lots dubbed The 1901 Project in the Near West Side. Centered around the 30-year-old arena, plans were revealed last year by the Reinsdorf and Wirtz families, owners of the Bulls and Blackhawks respectively.
Plans for the redevelopment of the parking lots around the United Center, dubbed The 1901 Project, will be moving forward as they are set to be reviewed by the Plan Commission this January. Led by the Reinsdorf and Wirtz families, owners of the Bulls and Blackhawks respectively, the project comes at a time when other teams in the city are seeking relocation.
The glass curtain wall is being installed at the topped-out 220 North Ada residential tower on Chicago’s Near West Side. Thanksgiving week saw the first level of windows go up on the building as high-rise development continues to push its way further west in the West Loop. A tower crane permit issued last week indicates that construction could begin very soon just a couple blocks north at 400 North Elizabeth, while the 368-unit Flora apartment tower at 1114 West Carroll Avenue just opened in mid-October.
