Plans for a new residential development at 940 West Erie Street have been approved by the Chicago City Council. The property sits at the angled intersection with North Milwaukee Avenue in River West, creating a wedge-shaped site. To make way for the project, two three-story buildings along with the adjacent vacant lot and parking lot will be demolished.
Construction giveth, and construction taketh away, as the tower crane we’re about to get at The 1901 Project will be counterbalanced by the one we’re losing at Bally’s Casino hotel tower in River West. The 36-story, 500-room hotel has been topped out for several weeks, but it wasn’t until Friday the 24th that we passed by and saw the crane had been lowered below the roofline.
Glass is being installed along the Chicago River on the east façade of Bally’s Casino. There may well be some over on the west side of the building as well, but with the Chicago Avenue Bridge closed, we didn’t make it over to that side of the project. But we did get a good look at the north end of the building from the Halsted Pointe construction site, and can confirm there had been no glass installed there yet as of June 6, when all of the photos in this gallery were taken.
A YIMBY reader sent over some drone shots from a late-April flyover of the Halsted Street Viaduct reconstruction. There are also glimpses of casino work, and the very beginnings of caisson activity at Halsted Pointe. Huge thank you to Patrick for dropping these images on us. Not many folks get this perspective of the city.
In mid-February when we last checked up on the hotel tower for Bally’s Casino in River West, the second tower crane jump had just been completed. At the time, I surmised that the second tie-in was at the 16th or 17th floor. I may have been off by one floor; it looks now like perhaps the crane is anchored into the 18th floor.
